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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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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
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A Day in the Life of an AVP – the October Edition
Sometimes a picture says it all. Pickles. For lunch. At 4:00 PM. It was that kind of day.
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Open Education and Our Students
Last week I attended the annual OpenEd Conference that focuses on the work in and around developing open educational resources (OER), offering Z-classes, and crafting Z-degrees. ACC systematically started down this open education road in the Fall 2016 semester, building on small pockets of OpenStax textbook adoptions. In the current Fall 2018 semester ACC is