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TROY Motto, 1887 - Troy University

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COVINGTON’S LEGACY OF MENTORING<br />

By Dr. Barbara Toner<br />

How, then, do mentors transmit wisdom Most often, it seems, they take us on a journey.<br />

In this aspect of their work, mentors are guides. They lead us along the journey of our lives.<br />

We trust them because they have been there before. They embody our hopes, cast light on the way ahead,<br />

interpret arcane signs, warn us of lurking dangers, and point out unexpected delights along the way.<br />

There is a certain luminosity about them, and they often pose as magicians in tales of transformation,<br />

for magic is a word given to what we cannot see—and we can rarely see across the gulf.<br />

As teachers of adults, we have much to learn from the mythology of the mentor.<br />

~ Daloz, pp. 18 & 19<br />

Auvronette Guillbeaux of <strong>TROY</strong>’s Covington, Ga. location, (pictured with Dr.<br />

Barbara Toner) receives the 2012 ‘Adjunct Instructor of the Year Award’.<br />

As instructors at <strong>Troy</strong> Global Campus, we have the<br />

privilege of working with adult learners, many of whom<br />

enter with feelings of inadequacy and anxiety, yet come<br />

to us with hope to obtain something they have missed –<br />

a college education. Many of them have sent their own<br />

children to college or currently have children in college,<br />

but have felt unworthy to take the same path. It is up<br />

to us, not only to offer them academic understandings,<br />

but to see the promise in each of them; and more<br />

importantly, to help them see it, too. If we can succeed<br />

in that task, if we can light the way for them to succeed,<br />

we find that many of them go on to further their<br />

education in their chosen field of study. We are not only<br />

instructors, but guides on their journey through life, and<br />

like the Statue of Liberty, we too lift our lamps before<br />

the golden shore of a better tomorrow. The journey of<br />

one such student comes to mind: Auvronette Guillbeaux.<br />

~ continued on next page<br />

Pathways<br />

Workshops<br />

JUN<br />

Reading<br />

Specialist<br />

AUG<br />

2001<br />

Education & Human Resources<br />

Directorate Education<br />

Development Center<br />

JUL<br />

Collaborative Teacher<br />

Certification Program<br />

JUL<br />

Technology<br />

in Motion<br />

JUL<br />

Governor’s<br />

Child Day Care<br />

Safety Grant<br />

OCT<br />

Wiregrass<br />

Math and Science<br />

Consortium<br />

OCT<br />

Educate the mind to think, the heart to feel, the body to act. ~ <strong>TROY</strong> <strong>Motto</strong>, <strong>1887</strong><br />

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