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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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Legacies
Legacies can be cherished or burdensome. Legacies can be known or hidden. Legacies can be something to celebrate or something to forget. I was raised by college-educated parents. My father was a philosophy professor at a public university until he retired at age 70. He met my mother when they were both at Baylor, where
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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