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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
Latest Blog Posts
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Helping Students – One Email at a Time
Can one email really make a difference for a student? I’m pondering that question after reading this article in The Chronicle of Higher Education. I will be teaching an online class this Fall – for the first time in several years – and I am spending a lot of time thinking about how I should
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We ARE a public good
Are community colleges a public good? Do we benefit the common weal? If your answer is “yes” (as mine is), then here is another question for you. What can we do – what are we doing – to tell the story of the public benefits of our community college? Inside Higher Ed and others recently
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Student Success and Z
How can we help our students engage in their learning, persist through the semester and into the next semester, and move along their chosen pathway? I hope that one part of the answer to that question is embedded in the recent work of our faculty, work that was supported by a grant from Achieving the