Empire State College Magazines and Journals

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Connections

The SUNY Empire State College magazine, Connections is published and printed twice a year in the spring and fall by the college.

Connections serves to inform the members of the college community and friends of this distinctive, statewide institution that educates at 35 locations in New York, sites across the U.S. and around the world and everywhere online.

Featuring stories and updates on the college’s remarkable alumni and students, Connections also reports on timely, relevant higher education issues, such as state and national funding, diversity initiatives and open learning.

Regular features include updates on alumni, a portfolio of their artistic and literary accomplishments, a profile of a member of the faculty and a roundup of news from around the college.

Fall 2011 feature stories:

• Keeping It All in the Family
• Theater Breaks Silence
• A Deep Green Dream

Labor Writes and Pipe Dreams

The annual magazine of the college’s Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies, Labor Writes highlights the artistic creations of the apprentices of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local No.3 and the United Association of the Plumbers and Pipefitters Union Local No. 1.

Both union locals require and pay for apprentices to earn an associate degree through the college in order to better prepare them for participation in the many facets of organized labor and the construction trades.

As stated in the introduction of the first edition, “Labor Writes is intended as a vehicle for the expression of the hopes of some of the movement’s newest members. Labor Writes also aspires and empowers.”

As part of the 2011 graduation celebration, the college produced Pipe Dreams a special publication recognizing the first graduating class of Local 1 apprentices. 

The two publications showcase the experience and ability of apprentices in these fields. More importantly, these publications serve to better tell labor’s story to a wider audience through the students.

Going forward, Labor Writes will contain the work of both Local 3 and Local 1.

Revisiting Boyer: Exploring the Scholarly Work of Empire State College Faculty

Known to the college community informally as the Boyer Journal, Revisiting Boyer: Exploring the Scholarly Work of Empire State College Faculty, explores four “pillars” of scholarship as articulated by former United States Commission of Education and SUNY Chancellor Ernest L. Boyer: discovery, integration, application and teaching.

The college unveiled this special scholarly journal at its 2011 All College Conference in Saratoga Springs as part of its 40^th anniversary celebrations.

Boyer was a driving force behind the creation of the college in 1971during his tenure as SUNY chancellor.

All About Mentoring

A biannual publication of SUNY Empire State College, All About Mentoring provides opportunities for colleagues from across the college to share scholarly activities, to reflect on ideas and practices about teaching, learning and mentoring, and, prompted by essays, visual art, poetry, and reviews from in and outside of the college, to think about a range of issues, questions and experiences relevant to our common work.

Metropolitan Review

Metropolitan Review is a collection of writing from the students enrolled at the college’s Metropolitan Center.

Explorations in Adult Higher Education: An Occasional Paper Series

The college’s occasional paper series brings together the ideas, voices and multiple perspectives of those engaged in thinking about adult higher education today.  The goal is to critically examine our theories and practices, to provoke dialogue, and to imagine new possibilities of teaching and learning.