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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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A Day in the Life of an AVP – the “one pager” edition
I’ve spent my day writing “one pagers”. What is a one pager, you ask? I’ll tell you. We report on our work in a variety of ways to a variety of entities. And one of those ways is an annual institutional effectiveness report that goes to the Board of Trustees. It’s submitted by the president
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Small Ball
In baseball, there’s a strategy known as “small ball”. It’s the idea of deliberate movement from base to base, essentially. Get a runner on first (maybe with a walk), bunt the runner over to second, then get the runner home with a single to right field. Instead of depending on monster hitters and big innings
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Faculty Hiring and Bias
We have spent the last year redesigning our approach to faculty hiring. We have done this for a variety of reasons, but front and center has been our effort to look for candidates who understand equity in the classroom and who will support equity-mindedness in instruction. We know that our current faculty understand the diverse