Goodbye Dear Neighbor: On Documenting Your School as It Unravels

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Author(s): Jaime Iglehart Frasson (Iona University, USA)
Copyright: 2026
Pages: 26
Source title: Narratives of Upheaval in Higher Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Denise Simard (The State University of New York at Plattsburgh, USA)and Janet Acker (The State University of New York at Plattsburgh, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3373-2063-2.ch007

Keywords: Educational Leadership & Administration / Higher Education / Information Science Reference / Knowledge Management and Library Science

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This chapter presents an autoethnographic narrative of The College of Saint Rose's abrupt 2023–24 closure, as experienced by a film-production professor who simultaneously taught and directed a feature-length documentary on the event. The film's title, Goodbye, Dear Neighbor, echoes the school's century-old service ideal. The chapter follows five dramatic movements—stasis, inciting incident, rising action, climax, and aftermath—drawing on field notes, interviews, and participant observation. It chronicles faculty and student responses to leaked closure news, job and school searches, transparency, severance, mental health support, and ripple effects on Albany's Pine Hills neighborhood. It highlights the student-run Chronicle newspaper's reporting, faculty–student alliances, and the author's emotional negotiation of institutional collapse. Interweaving personal reflection and documentary practice, the chapter explores storytelling as a tool for communal memory amid loss and asks what it means to turn to one's neighbors—and one's camera—when “home” is dismantled.

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