New professor joins education department

By Christle Gehman
October 8, 2013

Amber Gentile
Amber Gentile

If you asked Dr. Amber Gentile why she chose to give Cabrini so much of her valuable time and irreplaceable experience, she would tell you that it was the people and the mission. She loves the people, loves working with the specific college age-group and Cabrini’s “education of the heart” mission is a perfect fit for her. “Everyone seems to be just be special”, she said.

Along with Cabrini’s mission, Gentile feels that in order for education to really work, one needs to put work into the relationship between teacher and student.”I honestly believe that the biggest thing about teaching is relationships”, Gentile said. “I found in my experience that if a student feels that their teacher doesn’t like them….in their mind, they are not going to do the work for that teacher”.

Gentile has had much previous experience before coming to Cabrini. She has an educational leadership degree from Immaculata University and a counseling with school counseling Master of Science degree from West Chester University of Pennsylvania. At Dickinson College, Gentile was part of summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa which are both academic honors. Gentile has served as an adjunct professor in Cabrini’s masters program on and off site, for a year and a half, before receiving the job description of assistant professor of education here at Cabrini.

The “best thing” that Gentile has ever done was to co-found Destinations with Direction. This organization is was a response to the need recognized by Gentile and her co-founder, who saw that high potential kids with dim financial situations were not realizing their college potential. She saw students with real potential and wanted them to be able to see their futures in a more positive light than what they had been previously thought.

She decided to create a program to help them prepare and think about college and the future that they could have. “The seniors (that she worked with) all went to college, and as far as I know, we haven’t had anybody drop out of college” she said. “True leaders are able to find the right people (to take over what was started) and then let go” Gentile said.

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