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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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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…