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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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A Day in the Life of an AVP – the November Edition
Thursday, November 29 was a typical day. Over the course of the day the focus of my attention included dual credit staffing challenges, weekend college, changing the Math calculus sequence, eight-week courses and programs, organizing a conference in Austin in January, off-cycle pay requests, position change and budget approval forms, job postings, our longstanding ROTC/Military
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Mind the Gap
If you’ve traveled to England and ridden the London Underground, you are probably familiar with the phrase “mind the gap”. While that advice is intended to make sure that passengers step over the gap between the platform and the train, it has always made me think about the gaps that we tend to ignore or
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Faculty Advising for Students – The Mentoring Role
My goal with this blog and with the webcast Academic Transfer in Focus is to let folks around the college know more about the good work that is embedded in our initiatives. I am releasing a new webcast called Faculty Advising for Students. This webcast was filmed several months ago, and some things have changed