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Elevator or Stairs?
(Image by nakataza92 from Pixabay) (Image by No Way from Pixabay) At the start of each semester at Austin Community College, across our 11-soon-to-be-12 campuses, we have Welcome Tables for the first two days that are positioned at main entrances. Faculty, staff, and administrators all sign up for shifts, and we have great fun welcoming new…
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A Day in the Life of an AVP – the Spring Break Edition
I have spent my entire life in and around higher education. My father was a philosophy professor and I found myself following him into the professoriate. Thus since grade school, and to this day, I have always had a week off in March. It’s a privileged existence that we have when we can look forward…
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Responding to HB 2223
Some topics or projects dominate our time and effort here at ACC, don’t they? Those topics vary in origin, but our work occurs in a regulatory environment that reflects legislative action and THECB rule-making, so often our energies are devoted to things that come from legislative action. One of the recurring foci of my energy…
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Same song (faculty mentoring), second verse
This article in Inside Higher Ed focuses on the positive and significant impact that a faculty member can have on a student. We all know this, don’t we? We all had faculty mentors who made a difference for us on our higher ed journeys. I can still name some of my faculty mentors: Harold Sare,…