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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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A Day in the Life of an AVP – the August Edition
“Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head . . .” (Lennon/McCartney, A Day in the Life) Many folks wonder what administrators do all day – there is a perception amongst some that we are superfluous. While that’s a different conversation (!), I thought I would offer up a sample of
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Education Deserts
What is an education desert? I grew up in a college town. I moved from that small college town (Stillwater, OK) to a big college town (Austin, TX). I have never lived in a place where access to higher education wasn’t down the street or around the corner. In a way, that is ACC’s philosophy
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Helping Students – One Email at a Time
Can one email really make a difference for a student? I’m pondering that question after reading this article in The Chronicle of Higher Education. I will be teaching an online class this Fall – for the first time in several years – and I am spending a lot of time thinking about how I should