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A close-up of the altar at Regina Mundi Church in Soweto, showing damage and scars from the 1976 uprising.
  • Soweto

    Soweto.  What can I tell you about Soweto?  Soweto refers to the Southwestern Townships in Johannesburg, and it’s made up of 34 separate townships where approximately 4 million people live.   Soweto is a symbol of racism and apartheid and the post-apartheid world of South Africa.  Soweto is where Mandela and Tutu lived. Soweto is where

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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

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