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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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Engineering!
ACC does so many good things in so many corners of our vast and far-flung college – it can be hard to keep up. So today I thought I’d highlight our partnership with Texas A&M in the Texas A&M-Chevron Engineering Academy. Especially in our current reality – one that challenges our college, our city, our
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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