The value of faculty mentoring Georgina Breihof UA’16 and Jim Stellar The 2014 Gallup/Purdue poll suggests that students who had a mentor in college were 2.2 times more likely to be engaged in the workplace much later in … Continued
Co-curricular involvement and Experiential Education By Saben Durio UA’16 and Jim Stellar Saben, you have been involved pretty extensively in student life in the last few years. How about you start by telling us a bit about what … Continued
Wisdom and the “soul” of experience Marina Vazura QC’17 and Jim Stellar We believe MV’s personal experience as a first year graduate student at Queens College in the field of speech-language pathology reveals a fundamental principle of experiential education, … Continued
Building confidence through Twitter Zaniub Amir UA’17 and Jim Stellar Zainub is one of our most successful students, now a senior. The university has featured her on our posters placed on campus. It wrote a piece about her … Continued
Faculty mentoring, peer mentoring, and confidence – a premed story Molly MacIsaac UA’18 and Jim Stellar Molly is a premedical honors college student with a major in Biology. She works in a research lab in the RNA institute. … Continued
Getting into Undergraduate Research from Ghana Caroline Apreku UA’18 and Jim Stellar I first met Caroline when she was at a recent summer undergraduate research poster session at the Cancer Center on the Health Sciences campus of the … Continued
Social encouragement from a group to join a lab Alyssa M Hathaway UA ’18 and Jim Stellar Alyssa is a student from diverse background from Plattsburgh who is in the Honors College and is a Psychology Major. Recently, … Continued
Reaching for the future Angela Saulsbery ‘NU 15 and Jim Stellar Students make decisions all the time about what course to take, what major to pursue, and what career path to follow. Like all of us, they make … Continued
Social media, Diversity, and Ideas for Experiential Education Akanksha Atrey UA ’16 (December) and Jim Stellar After our first blog, AA’s summer research in computer science lead to yet another connection between us – a joint interest in … Continued
Internships and Initiative by Jona Hoxha UA’17 and Jim Stellar I met a few students at a recent dinner for alumni at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy. We got into a conversation about how internships … Continued