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ALL ABOUT MENTORINGA PUBLICATION OF SUNY EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE Issue 43 • Summer 2013 ALL ABOUT MENTORING ABOUT ALL Issue 43 • Summer 2013 1 Union Ave. Saratoga Springs, NY 12866-4391 518-587-2100 www.esc.edu Printed by SUNY Empire State College Print Shop ALL ABOUT MENTORING ISSUE 43 SUMMER 2013 Alan Mandell College Professor of Adult Learning and Mentoring Editor Karen LaBarge Senior Staff Assistant for Faculty Development “May your hands always be busy Associate Editor May your feet always be swift Lorraine Klembczyk May you have a strong foundation Graphic Designer When the winds of changes shift PHOTOGRAPHY Photos courtesy of Stock Studios, May your heart always be joyful and faculty and staff of And may your song always be sung SUNY Empire State College, unless otherwise noted. May you stay forever young.” Cover image Antonia Perez, “Red Doily,” 2011, 63” diameter, crocheted plastic bags. – Bob Dylan Photo: Cibele Veiera “Forever Young” PRODUCTION from Planet Waves (1974) Kirk Starczewski Director of Publications Ron Kosiba Print Shop Supervisor Janet Jones Keyboard Specialist 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] Special thanks to: Mallory Burch, for kindness and good help in getting us photos for our publications. Bob Congemi, for contributions to and support of AAM over the years, on this, his 40th anniversary at the college. 1 Table of Contents Editorial – Transform!!?................................ 2 Mentoring as a Means to De-Centering the Academy ........ 73 Alan Mandell Juanita Johnson-Bailey, The University of Georgia War Stories: An Incredible Journey ....................... 4 The Monastery at Skriða .............................. 77 Claudia Hough, Cindy Bates and Elaine Handley, Deborah Smith, Center for International Programs Northeast Center Mentoring Women ................................... 80 Agility............................................. 11 Roz Dow, Central New York Center Robert Clougherty, Office of Research, Innovation Can Science Education Evolve? Considerations on the Pedagogic and Open Education Relevance of Novel Research Discoveries in Animal Behavior . 82 How They Named the Baby ........................... 14 Guillaume Rieucau, Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Robert Congemi, Northeast Center Norway and Kevin L. Woo, Metropolitan Center Reflection on Teaching and Learning: How to Write a Poem................................. 90 Culturally Responsive and Feminist Approaches ............ 18 Menoukha Case, Center for Distance Learning Alice Lai, Center for Distance Learning Confessions of a Closet Materialist: The Servant Mentor: Lessons Learned About Money, Possessions and Happiness ... 92 Where (and When) Might This be Leading? ............... 22 Miriam Tatzel, Hudson Valley Center David Starr-Glass, Center for International Programs Expect the Unexpected: What Would You Do? The Pearl of the Antilles, Take 2: Teaching Film in Cuba ..... 28 A Crisis/Ethics Simulation in the MBA Program ............ 96 Ruth Goldberg, Metropolitan Center Kymn Rutigliano, School for Graduate Studies Emerging Computing Models and Second Chances: Our Empire State College Experience Their Impact on Organizations ......................... 32 New Mentor Reflections ............................. 100 Ivan I. Ivanov, Long Island Center Dov Fischer, Debra Kram-Fernandez and Troy Jones, Metropolitan Center Coping in the Aftermath of Hurricane “Sandy”: Considering an Immigrant Perspective .................... 38 Bridging the Digital Divide............................ 104 Lear Matthews, Metropolitan Center Silvia Chelala, Long Island Center and Center for International Programs Finding the Gem Through Trial, Error and Dialogue: Adjunct Faculty Teaching in Adult-Centered Academic Programs ..... 40 A Tale of Cloud Collaboration......................... 108 Daniella Olibrice, The Murphy Institute for Kjrsten Keane and Miriam Russell, Center for Distance Learning Worker Education and Labor Studies (CUNY) “Making the Best in a Bad Situation” . 111 Using an Area of Study Grid (Proposed) in Degree Catana Tully Program Planning: A Very Brief Practice Discussion ......... 45 Mentor, Guide, Personal Learning David A. Fullard, Metropolitan Center Environment Engineer … or All of the Above? ............ 115 Finite-Planet Water ................................... 47 Mara Kaufmann, School of Nursing Eric Zencey, Center for International Programs Institute on Mentoring, Teaching and Learning Declaring Adulthood: Completing its First Year ............................. 117 A Conversation with Joseph B. Moore, Part I .............. 50 Katherine Jelly, Center for Mentoring and Learning Ed Warzala, School for Graduate Studies Found Things ...................................... 119 What’s in a Noun? The Strange Career of the Word “Religion” . 56 Diagram of Range of Programs (1971) Robert Carey, Metropolitan Center The Body in Question ............................... 120 Reflecting on Service-Learning in Community Health Nursing . 59 A Review of Mary Guadrón, School of Nursing; “Bodies of Knowledge: Embodied Learning in Adult Education” and students Christine Porter, Janine Mower, Kimberly Smith, New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education Kim Wallace, Penelope Jordan, Elizabeth Hillier, Jewel Brandt, Edited by Randee Lipson Lawrence Kathleen Brown and Nechama Keller Elana Michelson, School for Graduate Studies One Last Narrative Evaluation Remembering Robert Hassenger ....................... 124 (with some musical and literary accompaniment) ........... 67 Tom Dehner, Center for Distance Learning Steve Lewis, Hudson Valley Center Remembering KD Eaglefeathers........................ 126 Material Shift ....................................... 69 Ivan I. Ivanov, Long Island Center Antonia Perez, Metropolitan Center Core Values of Empire State College .................... 128 SUNY EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE • ALL ABOUT MENTORING • ISSUE 43 • SUMMER 2013 2 EDITORIAL 2) Throughout our history, there have been us to know how that experience of learning many efforts to think about our students (and all of its profound influences) had and their learning; certainly, for example, never left her. over the last decade, the institutional 4) I had my own learning moment. While research output has gained a head of a first-year undergraduate, I was taking a steam. Without doubt, we have more history course focused on the close reading information at our fingertips. Still, I think of primary materials. One morning, the that our understanding of our students’ professor walked in, placed her book on learning remains thin and anecdotal. What the table and in one little swoop, opened Transform!!? is learned? How? Does it stick? Does it her blouse and began to breast-feed her tiny “transform”? We have a good deal of very son. No explanation; no excuse. The class important thick description, but (as also was went on without comment, as we all did our “Myself, I’ve always held the number of very evident in the Handbook) a paucity best to concentrate on the textual exegeses sacred words down.” of systematic empirical research and of we were invited to practice together. I’ve conceptual analysis and explication. What – Saul Bellow never forgotten that history teacher’s perfect do we mean, anyhow, by using the word Humboldt’s Gift (1975) double attention. In a single moment, she “transform” instead of humbler words like showed me that thinking about the French “change” or just “learning” by itself? Revolution and attending to the basic life “Our deep need, then, is to embody in 3) Along with other colleagues, Lee needs of her child could be one. In my our … work our good reasons for doing Herman and I have been trying to describe 18-year-old head (and I’ve thought of the as we do.” the mentoring process for a long while. I image thousands of times since), this is what – Alan Blum and Peter McHugh thought Lee once nailed it when I heard him learning was about: the personal and the Self-Reflection in the Arts and Sciences describe the work as our ongoing effort to political; the scholarly and the immediacy of (1984) do a “PLA on mentoring” – to excavate the daily life: all were brilliantly intertwined. I work we do with our students and to make felt transformed. explicit the values upon which it is based. 5) We all think about our students. We It’s in this sense that we’ve tried to articulate here are a number of moments here. often wonder what they are really thinking, a set of mentoring principles that can guide I hope the implied connections will what they are taking in, how they are our distinctive mode of “teaching and T make some sense. making sense of a reading or an activity: learning.” In this spirit, about 15 months whether and how they are grappling with 1) Over the winter, Xenia Coulter and ago, we offered a workshop at the annual the myriad questions that inevitably arise I wrote a review of a new book, The CAEL conference that brings together from the studying they are doing. And, too, Handbook of Transformative Learning, faculty, professionals and administrators of we think about what they will remember in published by Jossey-Bass (2012). The adult-friendly institutions in which we asked a week, in two months, in a year. Will it be word “handbook” suggests the hope of participants a simple question: Can you some idea, a new concept, that helped them a distillation, a handy compendium.