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South Africa
On Monday, March 30, 2026 19 Austin Community College faculty and staff will leave on a remarkable leadership development opportunity. We will be spending ten days in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa to learn from our brethren there and bring that learning back to ACC to inform our leadership and daily work in our
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Brotherly Shove (AKA Tush Push)
As I watched the NFL playoffs in January, the announcers periodically referenced the “tush push”. In the Philadelphia game (for the NFC conference championship) the announcers referred to the “brotherly shove”. Both the tush push and the brotherly shove refer to the same short-yardage play, in which the team lines up behind the quarterback and
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Sacred Spaces
I recently sold my parents’ house. They built it, and it had sheltered the Scott family (and only the Scott family) for over 60 years. A friend of mine referred to that house as a sacred space, and it got me thinking about sacred spaces. What are your sacred spaces? Is it a house? A
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Here We Come A Wassailing
I am currently reading North Woods by Daniel Mason. Is it a brilliant brook that tells the story of our country through the people who live in a particular place in New England, spanning from Puritan times to the present. I want to offer a quote from the book; this quote is in the voice