Author: glscott

I have devoted several days this month to the procurement process.  Sounds fun already, doesn’t it? Procure to Pay (P2P) is part of Business Services here at ACC.  P2P consists of Procurement (which does exactly what you think it does), P-card Administration, the Small Business Development Program, and Accounts Payable.  When the college is looking…

Do you know what support services ACC offers to our students?  There may be more than you realize.  Here’s a link to an overview of available supports, resources, and services for our students. If any of your students appear to be experiencing academic challenges, you can refer them to academic coaches or the learning labs…

Chaos!  Or, more exactly, ACCHaoS! The latest episode of Academic Transfer in Focus is about an outreach program in our Physics Department that they call ACCHaoS.  ACCHaoS is apparently a physics joke in addition to standing for “hands-on science”.  It’s a traveling show that our Physics faculty takes to various elementary schools, libraries, and other…

We are launching ourselves into a new semester and a new year.  We are about to invest ourselves in the learning of a new crop of students.  What we are making an investment in matters – to us, to our college, to our community.  Our students come to us from all sorts of backgrounds, bringing…

In late July I spent four and a half days with my fellow Aspen Fellows (fellow Fellows for short) at Stanford University.  For those who don’t know, the Aspen Presidential Fellowship is a leadership development program for community college leaders who want to support transformational change in their current or future roles.  It is a…

The month of July has flown by, filled with meetings (of course!), deadlines (of course!), evaluations (it’s PEP time), professional development, and a brief vacation. The meetings covered such topics as Testing Center usage, transfer forums in 2019-2020, the THECB Star Award application, our summer Department Chair Institutes, our participation in the Explore Law program…

I leave on Sunday for Palo Alto to attend the first convening of this year’s Aspen Presidential Fellows.  We are a cohort of 40 chosen from around the country, and we’re gathering for a week on the Stanford campus to start learning more about community college leadership and what it takes to be a transformational…

This article from Politico may be about our presidential primary season, but it resonates with ACC’s own work on diversity and equity in our hiring processes. What’s the difference between having one diverse candidate amongst those interviewed and two or more? Quite a lot, it turns out.  From the article:  “A single diverse candidate faces…

I’ve spent my day writing “one pagers”.   What is a one pager, you ask?  I’ll tell you. We report on our work in a variety of ways to a variety of entities.  And one of those ways is an annual institutional effectiveness report that goes to the Board of Trustees.  It’s submitted by the president…

In baseball, there’s a strategy known as “small ball”.  It’s the idea of deliberate movement from base to base, essentially.  Get a runner on first (maybe with a walk), bunt the runner over to second, then get the runner home with a single to right field.  Instead of depending on monster hitters and big innings…