Author: glscott

My goal with this blog and with the webcast Academic Transfer in Focus is to let folks around the college know more about the good work that is embedded in our initiatives.  I am releasing a new webcast called Faculty Advising for Students.  This webcast was filmed several months ago, and some things have changed…

Sometimes a picture says it all. Pickles. For lunch. At 4:00 PM. It was that kind of day.

Last week I attended the annual OpenEd Conference that focuses on the work in and around developing open educational resources (OER), offering Z-classes, and crafting Z-degrees.  ACC systematically started down this open education road in the Fall 2016 semester, building on small pockets of OpenStax textbook adoptions. In the current Fall 2018 semester ACC is…

“Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head.” Actually, with my curly hair, a comb is ineffective.  But still – you get the idea. I thought I would pick Friday the 21st to tell you about in the September edition of A Day in the Life of an AVP.  I woke…

We did it. After two plus years of planning, writing, rewriting, conducting surveys, pulling faculty rosters, double- and triple-checking faculty credentials and documentation, pulling data, organizing mock interviews, scheduling visits to five high schools and three campuses, organizing last-minute interview requests from the 5th Year Compliance Report visiting team after they arrived – and a…

A team from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) will be visiting ACC next week (September 17th through the 19th).  The team will be visiting with faculty, staff, and students at our Highland Campus, Hays Campus, and Elgin Campus.  They will also visit five high schools in our service area…

“Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head . . .” (Lennon/McCartney, A Day in the Life) Many folks wonder what administrators do all day – there is a perception amongst some that we are superfluous.  While that’s a different conversation (!), I thought I would offer up a sample of…

What is an education desert? I grew up in a college town.  I moved from that small college town (Stillwater, OK) to a big college town (Austin, TX).  I have never lived in a place where access to higher education wasn’t down the street or around the corner.  In a way, that is ACC’s philosophy…

Can one email really make a difference for a student?  I’m pondering that question after reading this article in The Chronicle of Higher Education. I will be teaching an online class this Fall – for the first time in several years – and I am spending a lot of time thinking about how I should…

Are community colleges a public good?  Do we benefit the common weal?  If your answer is “yes” (as mine is), then here is another question for you.  What can we do – what are we doing – to tell the story of the public benefits of our community college? Inside Higher Ed and others recently…