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Early College Experience MAGAZINA PUBLICATION FOR THE UCONN ECE COMMUNITY E 110 ECE French Students Visit UConn Storrs 2018 French Immersion Day and Quiz Bowl Competition (see page 10) EARLY COLLEGEWINTER EXPERIENCE 2019 MAGAZINE • VOLUME 12 UCONN by the numbers ECE students enrolled in UConn Early 13,363 College Experience courses Check out our registration numbers: UConn ECE 10 1,385 course sections o ered throughout 4 the state ECE instructors teaching 979 throughout 18 the state Connecticut 194 High Schools participating [208 total partner schools] Acknowledgments Welcome to the following new partner schools! Bassick High School J.M. Wright Technical High School Miss Porter’s School Harvard H. Ellis Technical High School High School in the Community Administration: 4 EARLY COLLEGE EXPERIENCE MAGAZINE 6 Brian Boecherer, Executive Director, Office of Early College Experience, Director of Research and Development 14 Nella Quasnitschka, Associate Director of Outreach, Director of Pre-College Summer Jessica Dunn, Assistant Director, Office of Early College Programs, Director of Student INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Enrichment Erin Blanchette, Administrative Specialist, Billing and Financials Stefanie Malinoski, Program Specialist, The Director’s Thoughts 3 Certification and Professional Development 4 UConn ECE by the Numbers Melanie Banks, Program Assistant, Academic Check out our UConn ECE Registration numbers Standards, Associate Director, Pre-College Summer 6 Resistance Leader Carissa Rutkauskas, Program Robert Ford Coordinator, Outreach and Evaluation Todd Blodgett, Program Assistant, 8 2018 UConn ECE Cardboard Boat Race Registration Coordinator at Avery Point Contributing Writers: Melanie Banks 10 French Immersion Day & Quiz Bowl Todd Blodgett Competition 2018 Brian Boecherer Erin Donohue 12 2018 NACEP Concurrent Enrollment Conference Jessica Dunn Kathrine Grant Stefanie Malinoski See Yourself as an Advisor 13 Cody Olson Michelle Pusser 14 Faculty Spotlight: Nella Quasnitschka 10 Questions with William Alpert 17 AITE Students Visit UConn Storrs Graphic Design: Sue Schadt 18 Exploring Pre-College Summer Connections: Photography: Where Are They Now? Peter Morenus Michael Illuzzi 22 The Genesis of Concurrent Enrollment: Contact: Albert E. Waugh and the UConn High School Office of Early College Programs Cooperative Program University of Connecticut UConn Early College Experience 368 Fairfield Way, Unit 4171 Storrs, CT 06269-4171 Phone: 860.486.1045 Email: [email protected] 2 EARLY COLLEGECOLLEGE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE MAGAZINE MAGAZINE Website: ece.uconn.edu The Director’s Thoughts Dear UConn ECE Community, e Fall semester has come and gone with a rapidity that has stunned us all. I feel the election season added to the sense that there was so much to do and very little time to accomplish it. Hopefully the Spring semester will oer us a dierent pace where we can accomplish just as much but with not as much frenzy. at being said, we have a lot to show for our eorts. is is the second issue of the Magazine, a natural progression from our popular newsletter. is season’s UConn ECE Magazine showcases many student events, thoughts on student advising, important interviews, and much more. I hope you enjoy reading these articles as much as we enjoyed writing them. With our appreciation, Brian A. Boecherer, Ph.D. Executive Director Oce of Early College Programs EARLY COLLEGE EXPERIENCE MAGAZINE 3 UCONN by the numbers ECE students enrolled in UConn Early 13,363 College Experience courses Check out our registration numbers: UConn ECE 1,385 course sections oered throughout the state ECE instructors 979 teaching throughout the state Connecticut 194 High Schools participating [208 total partner schools] Welcome to the following new partner schools! Bassick High School J.M. Wright Technical High School Miss Porter’s School Harvard H. Ellis Technical High School High School in the Community 4 EARLY COLLEGE EXPERIENCE MAGAZINE Highest Number of Students Enrolled in UConn Courses: 322 Edwin O. Smith High School 215 Daniel Hand High School 307 Manchester High School 215 William H. Hall High School 278 Norwich Free Academy 196 Xavier High School 240 Glastonbury High School 193 The Woodstock Academy 322 238 Fairchild Wheeler Interdistrict 175 Wolcott High School Highest Number Science Magnet Schools of Students enrolled: E.O. Smith 2018 - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR High School 2017 Highest Percent Enrollment Increase From 2017-2018: 2018 307% Newington High School 233% East Hampton High School 307% 208% Platt Technical High School Highest enrollment 173% James Hillhouse High School increase: 164% North Haven High School Newington 153% A. I. Prince Technical High School High School 145% Wilton High School 144% Wamogo Regional High School 136% Naugatuck High School 133% The Spire School & Windham Technical High School Most Credit Hours Taken: 2,849 Edwin O. Smith High School 2,263 Norwich Free Academy 2,202 Manchester High School 2,001 Fairchild Wheeler Interdistrict Science Magnet Schools 1,816 Daniel Hand High School 1,804 Glastonbury High School 1,724 William H. Hall High School 1,480 Marine Science Magnet High School of Southeastern CT 1,359 The Woodstock Academy 1,312 Xavier High School Miss Porter’s School EARLY COLLEGE EXPERIENCE MAGAZINE 5 Resistance Leader ROBERT FORD By Brian A. Boecherer I left the interview with Robert Ford wishing I was one of his students. Not a teenaged student, but as I am right now — a Ph.D. who focuses on law, society, and social change. His depth of knowledge and his approach to teaching are equally inspiring. During our hour together we covered topics on Black Nationalism, protest literature from James Baldwin and Allen Ginsberg, as well as music from The Doors and Bob Dylan. Prior to this conversation I would have guessed that such themes don’t get a lot of coverage in an intro UConnpcs.uconn.edu class. The reality is, at the very least, that they have been topics of discus- sion for years at North Branford High School where Rob teaches UConn American Studies (AMST 1201) and First Year Composition (ENGL 1011). 6 EARLY COLLEGE EXPERIENCE MAGAZINE Rob probably would not strike you as out of balance and that it needs to be published in peer-reviewed journals a revolutionary. He probably would restored to its ideals. “ere is a real and presented at prestigious regional not claim to be one either. However, love there for what the country rep- conferences. In 2017, Rob published it is resistance and protest in America resents.” When he joined the faculty “Ernest Hemingway in the Rearview: that oer the lens for his teaching and at North Branford, his administration Jack Kerouac’s Aesthetic Protest in On exploration of composition and the oered him the freedom to create the Road.” Aer I shared this article inquiry into, What is an American? his own classes. Recalling his faculty with the UConn ECE community, Rob feels these are the best themes mentor, Dr. Mary Helen Washington Kristine Harger from New Britain for helping students become more from University of Maryland, College High School responded to me, “Great compassionate and empathic. More- Park, he set forward to create a course article … Even though I am a Hem- over, they allow students a structured that engaged students through social ingway fan (aer many years of rst way of maturing as young adults, protest literature. Rob tells me that he despising him), Rob’s article makes becoming more self-aware, and taking continues to structure a course that me want to re-read On the Road. I a learned and reasoned stance on is “individualized and personalized” enjoyed his perspective on the literary social issues. In an age where students so that his students learn through evolution happening then.” is year are cornered by the inuence of social his lectures but also through their Rob presented on one of his newest media on politics, it is Rob’s class own discovery. “I put my trust in passions—gamication—at the New that oers students the space and the the students,” he says, to develop the England Association of Teachers of tools to make sense of their feelings in class along with him by infusing their English (NEATE). His presentation, relation to other epochs in American research interests into the class. entitled, “Adventures in Gamication history. and Personalized Learning,” cov- It should be noted that Rob’s in- ered his approaches to modernizing I asked Rob about “his creation story” novative approach to teaching, his pedagogy and student assessment and how his interests developed. assignments, and many areas of his in English classes. Rob is also the “ey started in 7th grade,” he said, curriculum are now being used at the NEATE Board Member-at-Large and “when I was at soccer camp down at University as well as in other UCo- their newsletter editor. Duke [University].” Every morning nn courses oered through UConn before practice he would listen to the ECE. is November he presented at When concluding an article on Rob music coming from where the older the annual UConn ECE American Ford, it is important to emphasize kids would hang out. e music spoke Studies workshop, generously oering his overarching message for all of his to him, and new doors were opened his curriculum as well as his teaching students, which is to be open, curious, to the world. Aer he returned home philosophy. In his American Studies and accepting. ese are messages to Maryland from soccer camp, Rob class, he developed a thematic merit that benet society and bear repeat- went to a music store and told the badge system to illustrate the areas ing, no matter your age, status, or owner he was looking for some music. where students have studied and mas- location. Rob wants his students to be He started singing one of the songs tered. Looking at a bright display of passionate, not passive, and he asks he heard.