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Soweto
Soweto. What can I tell you about Soweto? Soweto refers to the Southwestern Townships in Johannesburg, and it’s made up of 34 separate townships where approximately 4 million people live. Soweto is a symbol of racism and apartheid and the post-apartheid world of South Africa. Soweto is where Mandela and Tutu lived. Soweto is where
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Faculty Hiring and Bias
We have spent the last year redesigning our approach to faculty hiring. We have done this for a variety of reasons, but front and center has been our effort to look for candidates who understand equity in the classroom and who will support equity-mindedness in instruction. We know that our current faculty understand the diverse
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Cognitive Biases
A faculty member in Economics (Dr. Geoffrey Andron) recently sent this article about cognitive biases and irrational decision-making out to others at ACC with this introduction: “We all be crazy. Think how we can use student crazy to stimulate student education. Also think how to protect students from professor crazy…..and from administrator crazy.” You have to
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A Day in the Life of an AVP – the (whirlwind) May edition
Woke up (in a whirlwind). . . Fell out of bed (into a tornado). . . Dragged a comb across my head (in a cyclone). . . May has been a remarkably busy month. As you can tell from the introduction to this post and my parenthetical additions to the Beatles lyrics, every day has