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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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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,