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Lifestyles, page 13 September 28, 2009
Volume 7, Issue 1
MAKING CONNECTIONS
New freshmen program facilitates learning By Erin Trester Staff Writer
Kate Cline photo Ethan Paquin, Associate Professor of Humanities, hopes that learning communities will help students think critically and connect the learning to the curriculum.
This fall Medaille is finally putting to test a project that has been in the making for years. All freshmen have or will be involved with the new learning communities. “Employers really want to see people who can think critically, communicate well, and connect the dots,” said Dr. Brad Hollingshead, Associate Dean for Foundational Learning and Assessment. “These learning communities have stretched back to 1999 and started out involving only provisionally permitted students who were involved to add some extra support to make sure they succeeded academically. However, in 2005 is really when they became full-blown classes,” said Hollingshead. Instead of having separate classes and only focusing on one class at a time the classes connect to one another which can help students in the long run he said. “The learning communities really encourage students to connect their learning with the entire curriculum and not see each course as its own discrete entity that you just jump through that hoop and get it out of the way and move on,” said Hollingshead. Two professors who are part of the learning communities really stick by that idea and are incorporating it in their classes. The learning
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community between Ethan Paquin, Associate Professor for the Humanities department, and Jerry Erion, Associate Professor for the Humanities Department, will be one to watch. “The over arching theme is Discourse in the Age of Technology,” said Paquin. The intent of the course seems to be to get students to think about how much they rely on technology. “Perhaps our world is too fast, perhaps things are too big, and there’s too much going on that our quality of life is suffering; we tend to value
the quantitative over the qualitative,” said Paquin. Communities are intended to help students connect their classes and hopefully think more vitally about not only what’s going on in class, but the world around them. “Our learning community will hopefully cause students to slow down and think critically about the values that shape our world,” said Paquin. Making students think critically and slow See Learning on Page 6
College extends its community outreach with multiple new partnerships By Ashlea Browning Staff Writer Medaille College has jumped in with both feet this year, to a world of opportunities for students and faculty. Numerous new partnerships have been established and are either already in motion on campus or will be coming into fruition throughout the first semester. Not only will some of the new partnerships benefit current undergraduate and graduate students, but by being more active in the community, this move is intended to get the college’s name out there and to help to maintain the student base. A new addition to the Medaille
campus this year is the Arts in Education Institute, which held an open house with NYS Senator Bill Stachowski to showcase their new location at 121 Humboldt Ave. The Institute also announced the receipt of a $60,000 New York State Legislative Initiative Grant, secured by Sen. Stachowski, to aid in integrating dance, music, theater, architecture and art into the educational curriculum. “Our mission to use handson and active arts experiences to enhance learning is a key in helping students develop critical thinking and problem solving skills,” said Jackie Albarella, executive director of the Arts in Education Institute. “By connecting the arts to the curriculum, we provide unique
learning experiences in rural, urban and suburban schools.” “Arts in Education Institute has teaching artists in over 200 schools,” said Mary Ellen Mulvey, Senior Director of Instructional Support and Community Partnerships, about the benefits of having the Institute located here on campus. “That alone is going to provide all kinds of opportunities for our students.” Next year, the AIE Institute plans to have the Lincoln Center workshop here, out of New York City, in which teachers from all over the state will attend. “Not only do they offer direct opportunities to our students to go into schools See Partnerships on Page 6
Devon Ross photo Beth Donahue Templeton, Director of Artistic Learning, and Jackie Albarella, Executive Director of Arts in Education, unpack in their new office at 121 Humboldt. Arts in Education is one of the many new community partnerships that Medaille recently announced.
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THIS month’s HISTORY
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
Oct 12 - Columbus Day observed Oct 16 - Honors Convocation Oct 16 to 18 - Family Weekend Nov 6 - Pass/Fail Deadline Nov 6 - Withdrawal Deadline Nov 25 to 29 - Thanksgiving Break Dec 14 - Last day of classes Dec 15 to 17 - Final Exams
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Remember to stop at the stop sign when you enter and exit the campus.
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The third worst hurricane in US History kills 1,800 people in Mississippi.
Be sure to discuss with your doctor whether or not you should be getting a flu shot this fall.
United States population reaches 3 million people.
Check out ROCKTOBERFEST, October 1!
Buffalo Bills enter the American Football League.
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