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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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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
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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