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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.
Latest Blog Posts
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We ARE a public good
Are community colleges a public good? Do we benefit the common weal? If your answer is “yes” (as mine is), then here is another question for you. What can we do – what are we doing – to tell the story of the public benefits of our community college? Inside Higher Ed and others recently
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Student Success and Z
How can we help our students engage in their learning, persist through the semester and into the next semester, and move along their chosen pathway? I hope that one part of the answer to that question is embedded in the recent work of our faculty, work that was supported by a grant from Achieving the
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Dual Enrollment
Do you read “Confessions of a Community College Dean” in Inside Higher Ed? If not, I would encourage you to do so. He’s no longer a dean (he’s a VP now), but his insights are always useful and – dare I say – insightful! Here’s a particularly good column on dual enrollment. While he is