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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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Don’t Forget to Show Love
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
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An AVP’s Aspen Journey: Chapter Two
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
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A Day in the Life of an AVP – The July Edition
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