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ALL ABOUT MENTORINGA PUBLICATION OF SUNY EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE Issue 52 • Spring 2019 ALL ABOUT MENTORING Issue 52 • Spring 2019 ALL ABOUT MENTORING ISSUE 52 SPRING 2019 Alan Mandell College Professor of Adult Learning and Mentoring Editor Karen LaBarge Senior Staff Assistant for Faculty Development Associate Editor “To exist as subject therefore means that we engage PHOTOGRAPHY with the question of whether what we desire is desirable, Photos courtesy of Stock Studios, not only for our own lives, but also for the lives we try and faculty and staff of SUNY Empire State College, to live with others on a planet that has limited capacity unless otherwise noted. for fulfilling all the desires projected onto it.” COVER ARTWORK – Gert J.J. Biesta “Fired Kiln Interior,” 2018 The Rediscovery of Teaching Photo by Alan Stankiewicz New York, NY: Routledge, 2017, p. 4 PRODUCTION Kirk Starczewski Director of Publications Janet Jones Office Assistant 2 (Keyboarding) College Print Shop 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] 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial – Against the Odds ............................................................. 2 Excerpts From “How SUNY ESC Works: Student Perspectives” .... 59 Alan Mandell Dee Britton, Syracuse History Intervened Once Again ......................................................... 4 I Dream in Rhyme ........................................................................... 65 Tanweer Ali, International Education, Prague Heidi Nightengale, Auburn Canon Battles: Libretto for a “Field Recording” Vignette .................. 7 Embedding Case Studies in Coursework: Eric L. Ball, Saratoga Springs A Strategy for Building Critical Tinking and Analytical Skills ...... 68 Heather M. Reynolds, Saratoga Springs Learning From Disaster ..................................................................... 9 Anna Bates, Newburgh Notes From Ukraine, 2017 ............................................................... 72 Victoria Vernon, Manhattan Fostering Creativity and Encouraging Students to Embrace Scary Tings .................................................................. 11 Going to College is Not Like Going to Te Home Depot ............... 75 Rebecca Eliseo-Arras, Bufalo Janet Kaplan-Bucciarelli, Te Treshold Strategist Gift From Te Cosmos .................................................................... 13 Te Perils of Separating Immigrant Families: A Perspective ............ 82 Robert Congemi, Latham Lear Matthews, Manhattan Te Promises of SUNY Empire State College: A Poem ............................................................................................. 84 An Interview With Richard Bonnabeau .......................................... 16 Tomas Kerr, Manhattan Alan Mandell, Manhattan and Saratoga Springs Efectively Facilitating Cross-Cultural Learning: Becoming the Architect of Your Own Learning: Lessons From the Bufalo Project ..................................................... 85 Finding the Right Balance ............................................................... 20 Rhianna C. Rogers, Bufalo; Alan T. Belasen, Saratoga Springs Students Dominique M. Murawski and Halee C. Potter Connecting the Missing Link: Report on “Life’s Decisions” Forum ................................................. 88 Does Spirituality Matter in Academic and Professional Lives? ........ 23 Rosalind October, Brooklyn; David Gechlik, Manhattan Anant Deshpande, Saratoga Springs To Our Colleagues ........................................................................... 90 Te Citizens’ Re-Entry-to-ESC/BMI Pipeline: April Simmons, Manhattan An Opportunity for All Initiative – An Overview ........................... 26 First Noodle Under the Sun ............................................................. 91 David Anthony Fullard, Manhattan Deborah J. Smith, Saratoga Springs IMTL Project Summaries ................................................................ 35 Te Impact of Media: A New Model for Institute on Mentoring, Teaching and Learning Fellows, Understanding Parasocial Experiences ............................................. 93 2017-2018 Gayle Stever, Rochester Two Poems ....................................................................................... 37 Te Case for (At Least Some) Traditional Research Mindy Kronenberg, Hauppauge at SUNY Empire State College ........................................................ 96 Sabbatical Report: Te Importance of Place ..................................... 38 A. Jordan Wright, New York University Lorraine Lander, Canandaigua Found Tings Exploring How Higher Education Can “From Traditional Students to Adult Learners” ................................ 99 Meet the Needs of Tird-Age Students ........................................... 43 Arthur W. Chickering and Associates, Joanne Levine, Saratoga Springs; Michele A. Cooper, Syracuse Cool Passion: Challenging Higher Education (2014) A Fulbrighter at SUNY Empire State College: Found Tings A Letter from Timişoara .................................................................. 52 “Tanks for the Memory” ............................................................... 101 Loredana-Florentina Bercuci, Fulbright Student Researcher, Remembering Our Colleagues ....................................................... 102 West University of Timişoara, Romania Core Values of Empire State College (2005) .................................. 104 Playing With Fire............................................................................. 55 Alan Stankiewicz, Syracuse SUNY EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE • ALL ABOUT MENTORING • ISSUE 52 • SPRING 2019 2 E D I T O R I A L Against the Odds Photo credit: Janay Jackson Joe wanted us to recognize that we had gone responsibilities and just trying to stay afloat; too far. Infatuated with process, we neglected when students were quicker to ask what had to “It is an ocean of watery images content at our academic peril. be done and what grade they had earned; and And shapes of fire, and wind that bears them down. when a national “outcomes” movement hit us Sitting there, or trying to, I could barely Perhaps these forms are seeking to escape. … ” like a brick and elevated content above almost contain myself. For me, Joe’s claim seemed anything else? – Wallace Stevens, “Two Versions totally off base: probably exaggerated, missing of the Same Poem” (1947) the heart of our mentoring efforts and wedded This was years ago, but it’s amazing how many to some outdated notion of learning that, times I’ve wondered what Joe was provoking, in many ways, ESC was created to upend. what Sylvain represented, and still represents, ears ago, during Joe Moore’s SUNY Of course, I thought, we cared about the and how I, and perhaps some others in that Empire State College presidency process, the mutuality, the back-and-forth of room, were feeling. Was this process/content (2000-2007), he and one of our mentoring and of students and faculty creating division a complete fabrication? Was the Ycolleagues, Sylvain Nagler, used a concurrent knowledge together. That’s what made the dichotomy a creation of those who wanted to session at the All College Conference to ESC experiment (and the experiments of push us back to an understanding of learning square off in debate. Joe seemed to love the others, too) so radical. But this mentoring as the ability to reproduce reams of disciplinary opportunity to go toe-to-toe with an equally mode didn’t sacrifice content; it imagined the knowledge? Why was mentoring, at least for accomplished word-man. For me, the two of emergence of a new kind of content: richer, some, suspiciously intertwined with a silly them always hit the right tone: as serious as more authentic, and, most importantly, more fantasy of two people sitting on a rock (or it could get and great fun. And each time this meaningful to a student who could see her/ hanging out in the agora) with little else to do event took place, I bet, too, that we took a himself as co-creator. and thinking deeply together and loving the kind of democratic pride in the fact that the interaction for itself? Had we slowly but surely Yet, yes, even then, but maybe for only a flash, president of our institution was sharing the absorbed the critique of a mentoring mode I felt the poke of a problematic idealization floor with a fellow mentor. Rank (almost!) flew that hoped for a very different experience of of “mentoring” that Joe wanted us to face away. The ideas were what mattered. teaching and learning? straight on. I knew, first, that not all ESC On one such occasion, however, Joe truly faculty shared what for many of us was at Of course, I don’t completely know, but I’ve pissed me off. Who knows how they got into the heart of our work – the beauty of trying come to think that a preoccupation with it, but Joe started arguing that, whether we with everything we had to nurture a particular content, with crafting tightly-bound courses, admitted it or not, mentoring at ESC valued quality of student-mentor relationships and with gaining bodies of knowledge, and with process more than content. It was the mentor- the learning that we believed grew out of it. rubrics that try to measure every nuance of student relationship, the give-and-take of And second, I also knew that with the press its acquisition, have become something of dialogue that, he claimed, we most cherished. of time, the weight of workload, the fear