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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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Small Ball
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
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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