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South Africans in Six Descriptors
Having arrived home from South Africa on April 11, I have taken some time to try to process our experiences in Johannesburg and Cape Town. One of the most difficult, distressing, and uplifting museums that we visited in Johannesburg was the Apartheid Museum. When you enter you are given a ticket that randomly classifies you
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A Day in the Life of an AVP – the April Edition
The month of April has come and gone, and it included two conferences (the American Association of Community Colleges annual convention; the Texas Pathways Institute #6) along with the always swirling work in support of student success. There were many days from which to choose for this month’s day in the life, but I’ve settled
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A Day in the Life of an AVP – the Spring Break Edition
I have spent my entire life in and around higher education. My father was a philosophy professor and I found myself following him into the professoriate. Thus since grade school, and to this day, I have always had a week off in March. It’s a privileged existence that we have when we can look forward
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Responding to HB 2223
Some topics or projects dominate our time and effort here at ACC, don’t they? Those topics vary in origin, but our work occurs in a regulatory environment that reflects legislative action and THECB rule-making, so often our energies are devoted to things that come from legislative action. One of the recurring foci of my energy