TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN - Letter of Recommendation for Mr.
Carlton Rounds
FROM: Dr. Elisabeta Zelinka
Academic Director,
American University of Central Asia - AUCA
205 Abdymomunov St., Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic 720040
Mobile: +996-0550-166-012, Skype ID: elisabeta_zelinka1
American University of Central Asia - AUCA - NGA
I have had the life chance and the honor to collaborate with
Mr. Carlton Rounds since August 1, 2001, when I was selected as a Bard College
USA PIE Program Scholarship Student within the IILE- PIE Program (Institute for
International Liberal Education), Bard College, NY, USA,
http://iile.bard.edu/pie/. Mr. Carlton
Rounds became my mentor and advisor.
It is my moral duty to emphasize that Mr. Carlton Rounds is
one of the most professional and dependable persons I have ever collaborated
with. Not only is he extremely knowledgeable in his multiple and wide areas of
expertise, but he is a born pedagogue, whom all students and colleagues respect
and love. His pedagogical skills stem from his heart and soul, not only from
dry, reason-dictated trainings or workshops. For Mr. Rounds, mentoring and
teaching large, complex, international and intercultural groups are not a job,
but his calling.
Moreover, Mr. Carlton Rounds indeed does possess all
necessary leadership skills, outstanding sense of work discipline, exemplary
stress and time management skills and immense sense of open mindedness - vital for a Western professional in order
to complete his pedagogical mission(s)
with large groups of teenager (or older) students who come from different(even
oppositional) cultural, ethic, religious and linguistic backgrounds.
As soon as Mr. Carlton Rounds appeared on the academic stage
of Bard College, USA, he immediately inflicted huge positive change, the IILE
–PIE international exchange program boomed. Its success was unprecedented, due
to Mr. Rounds’ intercultural conflict management and mediator skills, rare
dedication to each of his student’s individual issues, Spartan rigorousness
with details, punctuality and most importantly – his high moral standards
It is a well-known fact that very soon after his hiring Mr.
Carlton Rounds brought so much improvement to the entire Bard HESP Network
(Central European University, Hungary, Smolny College, St. Petersburg, Russia,
Bard Globalization and International Affairs, BGIA, NYC, USA, Bard College at
Simon's Rock, MA, USA, European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania) that
he became much respected and admired by the entire staff and faculty of Bard
College and its HESP partners.
Personally, I am more than convinced that convinced that Mr.
Carlton Rounds will pursue a very successful career in international teaching
and student advising. Mr. Carlton Rounds has always proved exemplary life wisdom
in managing a highly internationalized, multicultural environment, he attends
to each student’s and to each faculty’s needs with utmost politeness, welcoming
and warm attitude and with promptness.
Mr. Rounds has exemplary cultural adjustment skills and
social skills, as well as time and stress management skills. Having gained
massive international exposure Mr. Rounds is critical, yet in a highly
constructive way, without being confrontational or prejudiced.
It has been a pleasure and a constant life lesson of
existential wisdom to collaborate with Mr. Carlton Rounds over the last
thirteen years. Regardless of any differences in our cultural backgrounds, he
has always acted as a true role model for entire generations of IILE – PIE Program
students.
Should you need any additional information, please do not
hesitate to contact me any time.
Thank you.
Dr. Elisabeta Zelinka
Academic Director
American University of Central Asia – AUCA
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