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South Africans in Six Descriptors
Having arrived home from South Africa on April 11, I have taken some time to try to process our experiences in Johannesburg and Cape Town. One of the most difficult, distressing, and uplifting museums that we visited in Johannesburg was the Apartheid Museum. When you enter you are given a ticket that randomly classifies you
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An AVP’s Aspen Journey: Chapter One
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
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The Power of Two (or More)
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
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A Day in the Life of an AVP – the “one pager” edition
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