Engaging with Scholarship: Featuring Dr. Bernie Savarese
Author(s): Dr. Bernie Savarese
Citation: Dr. Bernie Savarese.
Abstract
I am honored to kick off this new column, geared towards practitioner-focused scholarship. The National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, through its publications and events, has helped to shape how I approach my work as a higher education professional, and for that I will be forever grateful. As I reflected on how to start this column, I was reminded of some of my earliest memories of reading. I grew up in a blue-collar family, just across the Ohio River from Wheeling, West Virginia. While there were not many books in the house, my father knew I loved our trips to the local library. In what could be described as the nerdiest birthday gift of all time, he and my grandparents saved for months to surprise me with my very own set of World Book Encyclopedias. I was over the moon! I don’t know if I’m the only kid to read encyclopedias cover to cover (multiple times), but I have a hunch it’s a small club.
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