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Divide and Conquer
One of the key throughlines from my time in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, was the theme of division. Division was an evil and malicious tool that supported minority white rule both before and during apartheid. Division was seen everywhere – tribal divisions, race-based divisions, urban vs. rural divisions, economic divisions, educational divisions, access
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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