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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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Registration By the Numbers
Do you know who our students are? Not who our students were a decade ago, but who our students are today. If you look at the registration summary for Fall 2019 (dated 11/4/2019), you will see that our credit headcount is 41,232 students. Of that, 11,682 students were new to ACC: a 4.1% increase over
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A Day in the Life of an AVP: Gratitude
While a modern Thanksgiving often turns on football, family, and food, it is also a time to be grateful. So this month’s edition of A Day in the Life is about gratitude. I am grateful for good people doing good work at ACC. Today I met with Grant Potts and Estrella Barrera, who have led
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Yay ACC – We’re Stars
On Friday, November 22, Austin Community College was designated as a 2019 Star Award recipient for our work around open educational resources (OER), and in particular for our efforts to create Z-degrees (zero textbook cost degrees) that help our students stretch their financial resources. Z-classes and Z-degrees mean that our students’ finances can go farther