{"id":4530,"date":"2018-12-27T20:49:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T20:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/?p=4530"},"modified":"2023-05-24T17:56:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:56:14","slug":"warren-rosenberg-h98-counter-puncher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/2018\/12\/27\/warren-rosenberg-h98-counter-puncher\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren Rosenberg H\u201998: “Tireless Mentor”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Emeritus of English Warren Rosenberg was named an honorary alumnus by the National Association of Wabash Men during last fall’s Homecoming Chapel. Here’s the citation read to celebrate his joining the Class of 1998:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Warren Rosenberg, honored and beloved teacher, writer, editor, scholar, and self-described \u201ccounter puncher,\u201d we take great pride in naming you an honorary alumnus in the Class of 1998. To be clear \u2014 more than anything, you are first and foremost a holistic teacher. In your 2002 LaFollette Lecture, you said that you are obliged to \u201ceducate our students\u2019 emotions, to harness them, [and] to refine them.\u201d<\/p>\n

A native New Yorker, your mother and grandfather were huge influences on your early life; they nurtured your love of the written word, and you spent hours reading books in quiet parts of your home or in your grandfather\u2019s expansive library of books\u2014mostly written in Hebrew. Some of your best early memories are riding into the city to read at the 8th Street Bookstore.<\/p>\n

After graduation from the City University of New York, you got your start by teaching high school students at the tender age of 21. You arrived at Wabash in 1980 with the brash enthusiasm of a New Yorker, but quickly became befuddled when you couldn\u2019t find a Jewish deli in downtown Crawfordsville.<\/p>\n

As a teacher asking probing, difficult questions\u2014counter-punching your students\u2019 arguments and beliefs\u2014you helped build the Wabash English Department into one of the finest undergraduate programs in the country. For three-and-a-half decades, you taught with compassion and led with conviction. Your love of literature inspired hundreds of Wabash men over the years\u2014men who describe you as a \u201ctireless mentor,\u201d \u201cclose friend,\u201d and \u201cthe most significant role model in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

You won the College\u2019s McLain-McTurnan-Arnold awards for both excellence in teaching and in research and scholarship. What made you an iconic professor was the way you blended toughness to inspire excellence and empathy to develop compassion in your students. And you evolved as a teacher\u2014leading the Teaching and Learning Committee (among so many other faculty committees)\u2014and changing both the way you taught and what you taught.<\/p>\n

Coming out of the divisive co-ed study of the early 90s, you committed to answering the question, \u201cWhat does it mean to be a College for men?\u201d You designed a ground-breaking course to study Men and Masculinity, an always over-enrolled course that helped students better understand what it means to be a man\u2014in all of its many forms.<\/p>\n

You made men better writers by evolving your own pedagogical approach. You often drove students crazy when asking them to submit numerous drafts of papers in what you call a \u201cscaffolding\u201d approach to drafting, re-writing, and improving student writing. While unhappy that they had drafts to submit weeks before final papers were due, they were thrilled with the final results. As you have often said to your students, \u201cThe written word is not ephemeral. When something is published, it\u2019s there\u2026 It\u2019s not going anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

You have said that your identity is defined by your teaching. But you have meant so much more to Wabash, its students, faculty, and alumni. You have raised difficult questions, provided thoughtful answers, and made each and every student in your charge a better man.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the National Association of Wabash Men is honored to have you join its ranks as an Honorary Alumnus. Warren Rosenberg, it is with great pride that we extend to you our most sincere tribute: You are Some Little Giant!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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