Author: glscott

February may be the shortest month, but February 20 was one of my longer days this month. Woke up. Got out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head. I got to work at my usual time – around 8:30AM.  Soon thereafter my office received a call from a student who believed that she had…

Did you know that ACC actively supports the biosciences?  Have you ever toured our Bioscience Incubator at HLC in Building 4000?  This article reminds us that our academic programs have scope and impact, including our biology and biotechnology programs.  And this article illustrates how the Bioscience Incubator makes a difference for our local community. ACC’s…

Textbooks in higher education – their quality, their cost, their utility, their pedagogy – continue to be the focus of discussion, debate, and deliberation around the country.  This article in The Chronicle of Higher Education provides an overview of the most recent survey of faculty regarding textbooks – traditional, digital, and openly-licensed. ACC has joined…

Prelude (“something preliminary”) In September 2018 ACC received a grant from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to develop and offer statewide professional development to support implementation of HB 2223.  HB 2223 was passed into law by the 85th Legislature and it mandates co-required developmental and college credit classes. The premise is that too many…

This link was sent to me by Dr. Suzanne Summers, Professor of History.  Please take the next seven minutes and watch the video. While the setting may be Stanford, the comments of these students – typically first in their families to go to college – can  help us understand our students here at ACC. The…

I love language. I love learning (and using) new words – as you might be able to tell from my post about the word “joyance”.  I love my Dictionary.com app that sends me a new word every day.  Some words are familiar, and some are not.  Today’s word was “elevenses”, which is British slang for…

Joyance This word popped up on my phone yesterday as the word of the day.  Isn’t it charming?  Even without knowing exactly what it means, it has a lovely lilt. Joyance Joyance – as you might expect – means joyous feeling.  Gladness.  Delight. Enjoyment. As we bring this semester and this year to a close,…

Legacies can be cherished or burdensome.  Legacies can be known or hidden.  Legacies can be something to celebrate or something to forget. I was raised by college-educated parents.  My father was a philosophy professor at a public university until he retired at age 70.  He met my mother when they were both at Baylor, where…

Thursday, November 29 was a typical day. Over the course of the day the focus of my attention included dual credit staffing challenges, weekend college, changing the Math calculus sequence, eight-week courses and programs, organizing a conference in Austin in January, off-cycle pay requests, position change and budget approval forms, job postings, our longstanding ROTC/Military…

If you’ve traveled to England and ridden the London Underground, you are probably familiar with the phrase “mind the gap”.  While that advice is intended to make sure that passengers step over the gap between the platform and the train, it has always made me think about the gaps that we tend to ignore or…