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<\/p>\nThursday, November 29 was a typical day.<\/p>\n
Over the course of the day the focus of my attention included dual credit staffing challenges, weekend college, changing the Math calculus sequence, eight-week courses and programs, organizing a conference in Austin in January, off-cycle pay requests, position change and budget approval forms, job postings, our longstanding ROTC\/Military Science partnership with UT, a potential engineering partnership with Texas State, appropriate documentation of student complaints and their resolution, Spring Development Day, effective use of data to inform short-term actions, assessments and improvement, communication streams, testing centers, the Ascender program, the content for the new edition of the student success report, the April Texas Pathways Institute on teaching and learning, Friday’s President’s breakfast with area superintendents – and more.<\/p>\n
8:30\u00a0 \u00a0Arrived at the office and chatted about the day’s schedule with my fabulous executive assistant Rhonda, who keeps me on track and on schedule.<\/p>\n
8:50\u00a0 \u00a0Went downstairs to the fifth floor to ask (and answer) some questions about a couple of projects and some looming meetings.<\/p>\n
9:00\u00a0 \u00a0Turned to email.<\/p>\n
9:15\u00a0 \u00a0Went to visit with Jennifer in HR, who is always helpful and answered my questions.<\/p>\n
9:20\u00a0 \u00a0Went to visit with Dana in HR, who is also always helpful and answered my additional questions.<\/p>\n
9:40\u00a0 Signed seven Off-Cycle Pay Requests for my colleague Dr. Gretchen Riehl who was home with bronchitis.<\/p>\n
9:45\u00a0 \u00a0Started writing a letter of recommendation for a faculty member who is applying to a doctoral program.<\/p>\n
10:18\u00a0 Succumbed to temptation and ate a Shipley donut brought to work by my evil (but not really) executive assistant Rhonda.<\/p>\n
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10:20\u00a0 Returned to email and spent several minutes trying to figure out where my “trash” folder went in the new Google mail.<\/p>\n
10:31\u00a0 Had a drop-in visit from Dr. Susy Thomason to discuss updates to the faculty handbook, department chair orientation and training, Spring Development Day plans, and other things.<\/p>\n
10:45\u00a0 Read through the notes from Dr. Alison Kadlec, who facilitated the previous day’s deans’ retreat.<\/p>\n
11:03\u00a0 Received the agenda and started prepping for the Provost’s Council meeting scheduled for 2:30.<\/p>\n
11:35\u00a0 Approved two requisitions in Colleague related to the Texas Corequisites Project grant from THECB.<\/p>\n
11:37\u00a0 Finished the letter of recommendation and uploaded it to the candidate’s online file.<\/p>\n
11:45\u00a0 Checked “to do” list to confirm that I had done only one thing on the list, and answered more emails.<\/p>\n
11:51\u00a0 Started crafting an email to select department chairs about a new approach to a longstanding issue.<\/p>\n
12:00\u00a0 Ate some almonds and some cherry tomatoes at my desk while thinking through a plethora of issues related to the Texas Corequisites Project January conference that ACC is organizing.<\/p>\n
12:25\u00a0 Closed my office door to finish reading Lencioni’s Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars<\/em>.<\/p>\n 12:45\u00a0 Opened my office door, returned to emails to address more questions and problems.<\/p>\n 12:55\u00a0 Turned to drafting an agenda for the Friday afternoon 8-week Program Task Force meeting.<\/p>\n 1:05\u00a0 Look up and saw my boss in my doorway – so I invited him in (of course).<\/p>\n 1:22\u00a0 Returned to drafting the task force agenda.<\/p>\n 2:00\u00a0 Returned to emails and new issues that needed addressing.<\/p>\n 2:12\u00a0 Succumbed to temptation for a second time and had another donut brought work by my evil-but-not-really, fabulous executive assistant Rhonda. 2:29\u00a0 Left the office to go downstairs for the Provost’s Council meeting.<\/p>\n 5:12\u00a0 Returned to the office after the Provost’s Council meeting and sent emails about some of the decisions\/discussions we had there.<\/p>\n 5:25\u00a0 Did some more work on the draft agenda and on the supporting documentation and information that would be needed for the task force meeting Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n 6:12\u00a0 Decided – especially in light of the 7:30 breakfast meeting the next morning – that it was time to close up shop and head home.\u00a0 Chose not to take any donuts home with me!<\/p>\n Thursday, November 29 was a typical day. Over the course of the day the focus of my attention included dual credit staffing challenges, weekend college, changing the Math calculus sequence, eight-week courses and programs, organizing a conference in Austin in January, off-cycle pay requests, position change and budget approval forms, job postings, our longstanding ROTC\/Military […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2018\/11\/Box_of_doughnuts.jpg\")
<\/p>\nPicture #1:\u00a0\u00a0Liz DeCoster [CC BY 2.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons\r\nPicture #2: Amy from Newburgh, NY [CC BY 2.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"