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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.
Latest Blog Posts
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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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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