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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…
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Friends and colleagues
Philip, my friend of 30-plus years, loved good food, good wine, good company, and a good debate. He loved to tell stories – and he had quite a few “Gaye Lynn stories” because we met in the late 80s when we were both new adjuncts at ACC, me in the Government Department and Philip in…
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An AVP’s Aspen Journey – Chapter 5: The Pandemic Pivot
The Aspen Rising Presidents Fellowship typically runs from July (an exhilarating and exhausting week at Stanford) through April (a gathering in Aspen where each Fellow presents a “capstone”). But . . . I was a member of Cohort 4, what became the COVID Cohort (Best Cohort Ever!). Because the world turned on its head in…
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Planning
In January we launched our academic master planning process to develop the common goals that would drive us forward in the next five year. By April we had suspended that work, but we will take it up again in a few weeks, with a presentation of the Academic Master Plan to the Board scheduled for…