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South Africans in Six Descriptors
Having arrived home from South Africa on April 11, I have taken some time to try to process our experiences in Johannesburg and Cape Town. One of the most difficult, distressing, and uplifting museums that we visited in Johannesburg was the Apartheid Museum. When you enter you are given a ticket that randomly classifies you
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An AVP’s Aspen Journey: Chapter Three
I am four months into my Aspen Fellowship, and about to leave for the second convening of the 2019-2020 cohort. The Aspen Institute offers robust, rigorous, and challenging professional development for community college professionals who want to be transformational leaders. It is an honor to be part of the current cohort, full of passionate, dedicated,
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A Day in the Life of an AVP – the Pinball Edition
What is it like to be a pinball? I think I know – because I often describe my AVP days as “pinballing”. I go from one thing to another to another, back to the first and then over to a fourth thing. I zig and zag and zig again. And sometimes (but not often) I
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Liberty to argue
When I travel, I take pictures – lots of pictures. I take pictures of buildings and signs and lampposts and steeples and arches and flowers and a perfect espresso and quotes carved on cornerstones. And I have my desktop preferences set to rotate through my thousands of travel pictures, one at a time, so that