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Divide and Conquer
One of the key throughlines from my time in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, was the theme of division. Division was an evil and malicious tool that supported minority white rule both before and during apartheid. Division was seen everywhere – tribal divisions, race-based divisions, urban vs. rural divisions, economic divisions, educational divisions, access
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Open Education and Our Students
Last week I attended the annual OpenEd Conference that focuses on the work in and around developing open educational resources (OER), offering Z-classes, and crafting Z-degrees. ACC systematically started down this open education road in the Fall 2016 semester, building on small pockets of OpenStax textbook adoptions. In the current Fall 2018 semester ACC is
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A Day in the Life – the September Edition
“Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head.” Actually, with my curly hair, a comb is ineffective. But still – you get the idea. I thought I would pick Friday the 21st to tell you about in the September edition of A Day in the Life of an AVP. I woke
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SACS Has Left! SACS Has Left!
We did it. After two plus years of planning, writing, rewriting, conducting surveys, pulling faculty rosters, double- and triple-checking faculty credentials and documentation, pulling data, organizing mock interviews, scheduling visits to five high schools and three campuses, organizing last-minute interview requests from the 5th Year Compliance Report visiting team after they arrived – and a