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South Africa
On Monday, March 30, 2026 19 Austin Community College faculty and staff will leave on a remarkable leadership development opportunity. We will be spending ten days in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa to learn from our brethren there and bring that learning back to ACC to inform our leadership and daily work in our
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Radical Transparency, Radical Simplicity, Radical Trust
Many of you have heard our chancellor talk about radical transparency and radical simplicity. In a conversation with the instructional leadership team, one of them added the third leg of the stool: radical trust. What is radical transparency? Does it mean we talk about everything? Does it mean we are expected to answer every question?
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Persistent Resilience
I am a baseball fan. I have loved baseball for as long as I can remember. I recall being in grade school and wanting to stay inside during recess to watch a bit of a World Series game – back when those games were mostly played during the day. I recall sitting in a graduate
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I am butter spread over too much bread
J.R.R.Tolkien famously wrote in The Lord of the Rings “I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.” Are you feeling that way? I hear from faculty these days that they are feeling tired, burned out, and overworked. I continue to hear about a post-COVID malaise or weariness that, for some,