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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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The Power of ACC
ACC has great power. I want to take a moment of personal privilege and talk about the power of ACC to affect one person: Rhonda Little. Rhonda passed away on Sunday, June 14. She started working at ACC in January 2013 and she was immediately hooked. Her professional life had been in the legal field,
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Living in a world of “known unknowns”
Donald Rumsfeld, February 12, 2002: “As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.” Remember Donald
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Words of Wisdom
All of us are navigating our way through the fog of a pandemic that defies description. In the midst of this, I have been encouraged, cheered, and uplifted by the words of my colleagues and friends, both here at ACC and elsewhere. Department chairs deserve special recognition for their leadership in this time of uncertainty