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ABOUT MENTORING Issue 46 • Winter 2015 ALL ABOUT MENTORINGA PUBLICATION OF SUNY EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE Issue 46 • Winter 2015 ALL ABOUT MENTORING Issue 46 • Winter 2015 1 Union Ave. Saratoga Springs, NY 12866-4309 518-587-2100 www.esc.edu ISSN 2331-5431 Printed by SUNY Empire State College Print Shop ALL ABOUT Submissions to All About Mentoring f you have a scholarly paper-in-progress or a talk that you have presented, All About Mentoring would MENTORING welcome it. If you developed materials for your students that may be of good use to others, or have a comment on any part of this issue, or on topics/concerns relevant to our mentoring community, Iplease send them along. ISSUE 46 If you have a short story, poem, drawings or photographs, or have reports on your reassignments and WINTER 2015 sabbaticals, All About Mentoring would like to include them in an upcoming issue. Alan Mandell Email submissions to [email protected]. College Professor of Adult Learning and Mentoring Submissions to All About Mentoring can be of varied length and take many forms. (Typically, materials Editor are no longer than 7,500 words.) It is easiest if materials are sent via email to Mandell as Microsoft Word attachments. In terms of references and style, All About Mentoring uses APA rules (please see the Karen LaBarge Senior Staff Assistant for Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th ed. [Washington, DC: APA, 2010] or Faculty Development http://image.mail.bfwpub.com/lib/feed1c737d6c03/m/1/BSM_APA_update_2010.pdf). Associate Editor “No need is more fundamentally human than All About Mentoring is published twice a year. Our next issue, #47, will be available in the summer of Lorraine Klembczyk our need to understand the meaning of our Graphic Designer 2015. Please submit all materials by April 15, 2015. experience. Free, full participation in PHOTOGRAPHY critical and reflective discourse may Photos courtesy of Stock Studios, and faculty and staff of be interpreted as a basic human right.” SUNY Empire State College, unless otherwise noted. – Jack Mezirow (1923-2014) Cover photo by Anna Barsan, “Cyclus” “How Critical Reflection Triggers Transformative Learning” PRODUCTION Kirk Starczewski In Jack Mezirow and Associates, Director of Publications Ron Kosiba Fostering Critical Reflection in Adulthood: Print Shop Supervisor A Guide to Transformative and Janet Jones Keyboard Specialist Emancipatory Learning College Print Shop San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990, p. 11 Send comments, articles or news to: All About Mentoring c/o Alan Mandell SUNY Empire State College 325 Hudson St., 5th Floor New York, NY 10013-1005 646-230-1255 [email protected] The quotes in this issue of All About Mentoring are taken from the Special thanks to: work of the influential and generous adult educator, Jack Mezirow Kirk Starczewski and Ron Kosiba for (1923-2014), whose many years of explorations of “transformative many years of care for and attention to All About Mentoring, and to learning” offered all of a rich lens from which to view our own work Dennis Greenleaf and Jim Cooley for helping to bring all of and the lives and the learning of our students. these words to print. 1 Table of Contents Editorial – Let a Thousand Honors Programs Bloom or How to Cultivate “Cultural Openness” Among Adult Learners: A Boyer College for All ...................................... 2 Practical Examples From the Buffalo Project ................... 49 Alan Mandell Rhianna C. Rogers and Aimee M. Woznick, Niagara Frontier Center Mentoring and the Identity Development of Adult Learners ...... 4 Because They Cared ........................................ 55 Julia Penn Shaw, Center for Distance Learning; George Scott, Center for Distance Learning Margaret Clark-Plaskie, Genesee Valley Center Capitalism, Exterminism and Moral Economy: A Business Model for the 21st Century? ........................ 8 E. P. Thompson Today ...................................... 58 Tanweer Ali, Center for International Programs Michael Merrill, The Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies Essays Before a Syrtos, Part II ...............................10 Eric L. Ball, Center for Distance Learning An Exploration Into New Worlds: A Faculty Member’s Foray Into Virtual Reality.................. 63 Historical Lessons: From Smallpox to Ebola ................... 16 Eileen O’Connor, School for Graduate Studies Ann M. Becker, Long Island Center Initiation and Development of Internships at the Staten Island Unit: Professional Development Update: The Value of Experiential Learning ........................... 66 The Genesee Valley Center Festival of Ideas ................... 18 Gina C. Torino and Amanda G. Sisselman, Metropolitan Center Lynne Wiley, Genesee Valley Center Remaking the University: Family Chorus............................................. 20 A Conversation With James W. Hall, Part I .................... 69 Robert Congemi, Northeast Center Ed Warzala, School for Graduate Studies Mentor-Student Parallels: A Reflection ....................... 23 Preventing Student Plagiarism ............................... 77 Sue Epstein, Center for Distance Learning Elizabeth Bradley, School for Graduate Studies On Mentoring: Coaching Academic Self-Confidence What Is Student-Centered Learning? Among Adult Students...................................... 25 A Review of: Jessica Kindred, The College of New Rochelle, A Learner Centered Approach to Online Education School of New Resources By Lisa Harrell ............................................81 Kathleen Stone, Center for Distance Learning From Children to Adults: Applying Developmentally Appropriate Practice to an Adult Online Learning Environment . 28 Sustaining Adult Learners Through Relationship Tracy Galuski, Center for Distance Learning A Review of: Developing and Sustaining Adult Learners Finding My Way: One Mentor’s Journey ......................31 Edited by Carrie J. Boden-McGill and Kathleen P. King ......... 83 Ruth I. Losack, Metropolitan Center Amanda G. Sisselman, Metropolitan Center MOOC Talk: A Connectivist Dialogue Remembering Lorraine Peeler ............................... 87 About Our Metaliteracy MOOC Experience................... 34 Colleagues from SUNY Empire State College Tom Mackey, Michele Forte and Nicola Allain, Center for Distance Learning; Trudi Jacobson and Jenna Pitera, University at Albany Remembering Nancy Bunch ................................. 90 Colleagues from SUNY Empire State College History, Memory and Power ................................. 41 Anna Barsan, Metropolitan Center Core Values of Empire State College .......................... 95 From the Wilds of Sabbatical: A Reflection on Transformation ... 45 Kim Hewitt, Metropolitan Center SUNY EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE • ALL ABOUT MENTORING • ISSUE 46 • WINTER 2015 2 EDITORIAL opportunities to learn and to earn the degrees its “specialized advising.” Another mentions they want and they deserve (surely, right at our “challenging students to think outside the box.” core) – if we are going to make it as Empire Others offer “interdisciplinary seminars.” And State College, we have our work cut out for us. still another university proudly announces: It don’t come easy. “We encourage our students to create their own ideal education.” There are many entry points to the debates that are raging right now. I want to zoom How familiar all of this is! in on one because, for me, it’s crucial to so ESC is making a number of radical claims: much about our future. (Sorry if you’ve heard We are a public college that serves learners this before.) Let a who deserve a higher education that is The notion of a “Boyer College” is often responsive to their professional, academic Thousand floated around. (As you’ll see in Ed Warzala’s and personal needs. And that’s what we offer fascinating discussion with Jim Hall in this them. No two ways about it: We’re a living Honors issue, for the moment, we’re skirting around contradiction. We’re an open learning-honors what Boyer may have actually envisioned.) For college for all that seeks to provide thick some, the phrase has been the touch point for advising/mentoring, a model of learning Programs a critique of ESC. “Come on,” these colleagues contracts that can break the hold of the have argued, “just create a ‘Boyer College’ for disciplines, and the amazing opportunity Bloom or those special students, those extraordinary for students to be encouraged to talk about ones, who want it and are capable of doing and have someone take seriously their vision A Boyer something different. Don’t assume that every (whatever form it takes, however rambunctious student craves it; don’t assume that every or conventional it might be) of “their own ideal student can pull it off.” education.” We, as mentors, surely don’t know College for All all the answers (our expertise might be better For others, a “Boyer College-for-all” has been understood as being more humble questioners at the heart of ESC since its opening. “Let and careful listeners whose knowing gets everyone participate in the creation of his or “‘Much as we’ve done this, you’d think it might disrupted all the time) and, wow, for myriad her own education,” these colleagues insist. get a tad bit easier,’ Darnell said, ‘but that’s not reasons (of money, time, priorities, fears “To greater or lesser extents, we know they the way of it.’” of academic chaos and our current dug-in can do it.” – Ron Rash institutional ways), we’re often disappointed “Three A.M. and the Stars Were Out” Not surprisingly, I’m in the second camp. by the gap between this
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