ALL ABOUT MENTORINGA PUBLICATION OF SUNY EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE Issue 44 • Winter 2013 - 2014 ALL ABOUT MENTORING ABOUT ALL Issue 44 • Winter 2013 - 2014 - 2013 1 Union Ave. Saratoga Springs, NY 12866-4391 518-587-2100 www.esc.edu ISSN 2331-5431 Printed by SUNY Empire State College Print Shop ALL ABOUT ALL ABOUT MENTORING Submissions to All About Mentoring ISSUE 44 f you have a scholarly paper-in-progress or a talk that you have presented, All About Mentoring WINTER 2013 - 2014 would 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 Alan Mandell I mentoring community, please send them along. College Professor of Adult Learning and Mentoring If you have a short story, poem, drawings or photographs, or have reports on your reassignments Editor and sabbaticals, All About Mentoring would like to include them in an upcoming issue. 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We thank her for everything that she has done – and it has been so much – for this ongoing Empire State College project. 1 Table of Contents Editorial . 2 . Mentoring in Haiti . 61 Alan Mandell LeGrace Benson, Center for Distance Learning (professor emerita); Arts of Haiti Research Project (director); Journal Mentoring as Deep Listening . 4 of Haitian Studies (associate editor) Cindy Bates, Northeast Center “Time’s Winged Chariot”: Aporia and Mentoring the Migrant Students and Multiple Journeys: Older Student . 67 What Do Transnational Students Say About Themselves? . 6 Tom Akstens, Northeast Center David Starr-Glass, Center for International Programs (Prague) Poetry . .69 . A Labor Day Letter . .15 . Mindy Kronenberg, Long Island Center Michael Merrill, The Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies The Praxis of a Peer Coaching Program . .70 . Lisa D’Adamo-Weinstein and Sarah Spence-Staulters, Teaching Poetics . 19 Northeast Center Himanee Gupta-Carlson, Center for Distance Learning Open to the Creative Process . 75 What’s in a Noun? Part II: What Do We Know? . 21 Peggy Lynn, Central New York Center Robert Carey, Metropolitan Center Writing the “Endless” Book . 78 Coaching, Mentoring and Learning: Reflections from the Water . 24 . Joyce McKnight, Center for Distance Learning Desalyn De-Souza, Central New York Center Using Facebook to Engage Students Federal Advocacy: The Issues We Face . 26 . in the Lebanon Residency Program . 81 Michael Mancini, Office of Communications and Jeannine Mercer, Center for International Programs Government Relations Emil Moxey – 2013 Black Male Initiative Heritage Award . 86 Meditations on the Presentation of Self in Mentoring . 28 . Introduced by Lear Matthews, Metropolitan Center Donna Gaines, Long Island Center The Steinmacht Radio . 88 Radical Openness: Toward a Theory of Co(labor)ation . 33 Robert Congemi, Northeast Center Michael A. Peters, University of Waikato, New Zealand The Value of a Virtual Term Abroad . 94 Poetry . 41 . Lorette Pellettiere Calix, Center for International Programs Barbara Tramonte, School for Graduate Studies (Panama) and Patrice Prusko Torcivia, Cornell University Does the Library Work With my Mobile Device? The Empire Declaring Adulthood: State College Library Mobile Inventory Project . 42 A Conversation with Joseph B . Moore, Part II . .100 . Heather Shalhoub, Empire State College Library Ed Warzala, School for Graduate Studies Toward an Understanding of Mentoring as Emotional Labor . 44 Painting in Florence: History and Inspiration . 107 Nadine V. Wedderburn, Northeast Center Betty Wilde-Biasiny, Metropolitan Center Creating the Light . 47 Politics, Ecology and Social Change at the Top of the World . .111 . Amy Ruth Tobol, Long Island Center Eric Zencey, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, The University of Vermont Using Open Resources to Your Advantage: How to Effectively Incorporate OERs into College Assignments . .51 . Remembering Nicholas Cushner . 114 . Rhianna C. Rogers, Niagara Frontier Center Colleagues from Empire State College The Interrelation Between Mathematical Logic, Core Values of Empire State College . 116 Math Education and its History . 57 Gohar Marikyan, Metropolitan Center SUNY EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE • ALL ABOUT MENTORING • ISSUE 44 • WINTER 2013 - 2014 2 E D I T O R I A L What are you doing at this college? Why are “against the grain” at one moment might you here? not have much punch at another. Don’t idealize the past. That’s a weak foundation Look who’s angry now. What do you think for anything. It won’t hold. Hey, you know, the answer is? Are you telling me that I time marches on. don’t belong, that I’ve failed some kind of litmus test? Who are you to create such a Obviously, it’s true. We’re not in 1970. test, let alone claim that you have the right A 37-year-old born in 1933 is not the same to administer it? Who chose you to be the as a 37-year-old born in 1976. But might it an’t you just give it up? big dude? not be true – can’t you admit it? – that there are some principles about teaching, students I’m searching for the heart of your work. C and the role of the faculty – principles I want to figure out the core of your that have merit and depth beyond the I can’t believe we’re doing this again. commitment. Believe me, I’m interested. moment? Or, how about this: Don’t you You’re completely unrelenting. I can’t believe it’s only about having a job – find it fascinating that, right now, so many that it’s only the check. It’s not about my compulsiveness. It’s a institutions are trying to capture what you serious question. Give it up, I say. Listen: This place is no lab for your are trying to jettison? As I see it, you’re just Give up what? dipsy-doodling around. I hate to break giving it up. Just tell me why. it to you, but it’s a college that needs Although it’s hard for you to acknowledge, You know what I mean – this persistent students, courses and money to keep the I’m worried too. Adults have been found, posturing of yours. doors open. You may have noticed that the the public doesn’t trust higher ed, the competition is hotter and heavier than ever Why are you so angry? choices for students are almost boundless and that all over the place, things aren’t and people are broke. If this place and other It’s not anger at all. I’m just perturbed and, looking that good. to tell you the truth, rather bored by your 40-something institutions don’t change, obsession with this mentoring mantra and You’re so proud of your smart pragmatism we’re all dead. But don’t worry, we’ll its supposed magical reverberations. You aren’t you? You think you not only stand give you your little niche market, your know, there are other ways to teach, other for what is academically right but for the 10 percent sanctuary – you won’t be ways to advise, other ways to organize only path that will keep this joint alive. forgotten. I promise. Still, you poor soul, a college. Talk about hubris. don’t mistake your personal passions for the whole. You’ve got to hold your ego At least my head’s not in the clouds or, Do you care about anything? Be honest: back, even a tad. What keeps you going? Help me understand. maybe more appropriately, my head’s not buried in some clever dialogues written four Oh, Mr.