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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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Cognitive Biases
A faculty member in Economics (Dr. Geoffrey Andron) recently sent this article about cognitive biases and irrational decision-making out to others at ACC with this introduction: “We all be crazy. Think how we can use student crazy to stimulate student education. Also think how to protect students from professor crazy…..and from administrator crazy.” You have to
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A Day in the Life of an AVP – the (whirlwind) May edition
Woke up (in a whirlwind). . . Fell out of bed (into a tornado). . . Dragged a comb across my head (in a cyclone). . . May has been a remarkably busy month. As you can tell from the introduction to this post and my parenthetical additions to the Beatles lyrics, every day has
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Equity
What is equity and why is it important? This article in Community College Daily describes equity as “unfinished business” for community colleges across the country. While community colleges have long been focused on (and excelled at) open access and second chances, we haven’t done nearly as good a job with our focus on equitable student