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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 Holiday Edition
The semester is ending. The year is ending. Here’s to the passing of the old semester and the old year. Here’s to the coming of a new semester and a new year. Here’s to the work we do, the students we help, the lives we change, the friends and colleagues with whom we work. Celebrate!
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Registration By the Numbers
Do you know who our students are? Not who our students were a decade ago, but who our students are today. If you look at the registration summary for Fall 2019 (dated 11/4/2019), you will see that our credit headcount is 41,232 students. Of that, 11,682 students were new to ACC: a 4.1% increase over
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A Day in the Life of an AVP: Gratitude
While a modern Thanksgiving often turns on football, family, and food, it is also a time to be grateful. So this month’s edition of A Day in the Life is about gratitude. I am grateful for good people doing good work at ACC. Today I met with Grant Potts and Estrella Barrera, who have led