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Robben Island
I struggle to find the words to describe Robben Island. If it doesn’t sound familiar, Robben Island is in Table Bay, a few miles off Cape Town, South Africa. It has a centuries-long history as a penal colony, and from the mid-1840s to the 1930s it also housed what was known as a leper colony.
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Responding to HB 2223
Some topics or projects dominate our time and effort here at ACC, don’t they? Those topics vary in origin, but our work occurs in a regulatory environment that reflects legislative action and THECB rule-making, so often our energies are devoted to things that come from legislative action. One of the recurring foci of my energy
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Same song (faculty mentoring), second verse
This article in Inside Higher Ed focuses on the positive and significant impact that a faculty member can have on a student. We all know this, don’t we? We all had faculty mentors who made a difference for us on our higher ed journeys. I can still name some of my faculty mentors: Harold Sare,
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A Day in the Life – the February Edition
February may be the shortest month, but February 20 was one of my longer days this month. Woke up. Got out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head. I got to work at my usual time – around 8:30AM. Soon thereafter my office received a call from a student who believed that she had