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Robben Island
I struggle to find the words to describe Robben Island. If it doesn’t sound familiar, Robben Island is in Table Bay, a few miles off Cape Town, South Africa. It has a centuries-long history as a penal colony, and from the mid-1840s to the 1930s it also housed what was known as a leper colony.
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Adobe Creative Cloud
ACC is now an Adobe Creative Campus. What does that mean? Well, for one, it means that students in many of our more “creative” programs get low-cost access to the Adobe Creative Suite. And for another, it means that students, staff, and faculty will be able to explore and develop their skills in using Photoshop,
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A Day in the Life of an AVP – the April Edition
The month of April has come and gone, and it included two conferences (the American Association of Community Colleges annual convention; the Texas Pathways Institute #6) along with the always swirling work in support of student success. There were many days from which to choose for this month’s day in the life, but I’ve settled
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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