prisons, led seminars and
worked in other various community
settings and eventually decided
to add teaching to her
resume.
“In my line of work, I’ve always
found myself educating something,
whether it was awareness or
empowerment there was always
some kind of educational component
in the community and then it
just sort of dawned on me that I
could do that in more of a professional
setting,” says Genovese.
Genovese teaches the integration
of knowledge course at
Bucks. It is a course in which
three professors teach up to 60
students on three different perspectives
of knowledge.
It’s
G e n –
o v e s e ‘ s
first time
t e a c h i n g
this course
and she
says she
stumbled
into it by
accident.
“It was a
lot of luck
a c tua l ly,
the psyc
h o l o g y
course I
was teaching
overlapped with the integration
course and I got to know a
few of the professors that were
teaching that course and when Dr.
Ford wasn’t available to do the semester,
Gene and Colleen (the two
professors who also teach the
course) were sort of familiar with
my presence and asked what I
taught and if I was able to teach
this course as well,” she says.
Genovese attended Kings College
in Wilkes Barre, and then
Seton Hall for her graduate degree.
She majored in psychology
and has a private practice in Flemington,
New Jersey, where she
spends most of her time when she
is not teaching at Bucks.
Genovese came out of college
with every intention of working in
the psychology field, and she did.
She has dreams of one day receiving
her doctorate but for right now
she is happy with teaching and
running her private practice.With
teaching the class combined while
running her private practice,
things can be rather taxing at
times.
“I would love to get a doctorate
at some point but two big factors
would be the financial situation
and the time,” says Genovese.
“I would have to give up something
to do that and I’m not sure if
I want to give up anything just
yet.”
In her classes, she is very clear
and very determined to give students
not only knowledge they
can use in the classroom, but
hopefully helpful knowledge they
can carry with them the rest of
their lives.
While talking to her, students
get the sense that she enjoys what
she does and that students really
do mean a lot to her.
She seems to relate to the students
on a more personal level
that some other professors seem to
miss. Maybe it’s because she lets
her students text her whenever
they have a problem or a question.
Or maybe it’s because of her experience
with psychology and life
experiences that she relates in the
classroom, she seems to make that
connection easier with her students.
“I really enjoy teaching this
course because I feel that it’s really
unique, I don’t know that
many other colleges have a course
like this,” says Genovese.