FROM STUDENT TO PROFESSOR

speeches and language, so he was drawn to the art of public speaking.

He said GCSU helped prepare him well for a career in higher education because of the rhetoric program’s culture and faculty.

“Whenever my colleagues and I are trying to decide programs or what to teach here, I always think back to GC,” said Adamczyk. “It was such a wonderful program, and it taught me to communicate well and make my voice heard.”

Adamczyk said he is content at Farmingdale and plans on retiring as a teacher. If he were to change careers, though, he said, it would be a transition to a government position because it would allow him to remain connected to public speaking and speeches.

His advice to current rhetoric majors is to take advantage of the resources available to them in college because they will likely miss them later on.

“You are never going to have access to those resources again,” he said. “It will be silly little things such as the library’s resources that you never really realized how important they are until you do not have access anymore.”