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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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Chaos!
Chaos! Or, more exactly, ACCHaoS! The latest episode of Academic Transfer in Focus is about an outreach program in our Physics Department that they call ACCHaoS. ACCHaoS is apparently a physics joke in addition to standing for “hands-on science”. It’s a traveling show that our Physics faculty takes to various elementary schools, libraries, and other
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Don’t Forget to Show Love
We are launching ourselves into a new semester and a new year. We are about to invest ourselves in the learning of a new crop of students. What we are making an investment in matters – to us, to our college, to our community. Our students come to us from all sorts of backgrounds, bringing
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An AVP’s Aspen Journey: Chapter Two
In late July I spent four and a half days with my fellow Aspen Fellows (fellow Fellows for short) at Stanford University. For those who don’t know, the Aspen Presidential Fellowship is a leadership development program for community college leaders who want to support transformational change in their current or future roles. It is a