{"id":472,"date":"2018-12-20T15:22:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T21:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/?p=472"},"modified":"2018-12-20T15:22:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T21:22:11","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-an-avp-the-holiday-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-avp-the-holiday-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day in the Life of an AVP &#8211; the Holiday Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Joyance<\/h3>\n<p>This word popped up on my phone yesterday as the word of the day.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t it charming?\u00a0 Even without knowing exactly what it means, it has a lovely lilt.<\/p>\n<h5>Joyance<\/h5>\n<p>Joyance &#8211; as you might expect &#8211; means joyous feeling.\u00a0 Gladness.\u00a0 Delight. Enjoyment.<\/p>\n<p>As we bring this semester and this year to a close, I wish you joyance.<\/p>\n<p>As I have spent my day today &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>signing off-cycle pay requests (of course!)<\/li>\n<li>working on conference planning around the implementation of corequisites<\/li>\n<li>responding to a student complaint<\/li>\n<li>taking colleagues to lunch<\/li>\n<li>answering questions for a professional reference<\/li>\n<li>booking a couple of meetings for early January<\/li>\n<li>answering and sending emails<\/li>\n<li>trying to figure out some course equivalencies<\/li>\n<li>providing additional information to my boss about an international travel request<\/li>\n<li>looking at the (too long) list of unsubmitted grades &#8211;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have been reminded &#8211; even in the midst of the routine (off-cycle pay requests) and the frustrating (too many unsubmitted grades) &#8211; that I find joyance in my work.<\/p>\n<p>What we do matters for our students and our community.\u00a0 It is meaningful and impactful work that makes the world we live in better.\u00a0 I hope you take as much delight in our work as I do.\u00a0 I hope our work at ACC gives you gladness.\u00a0 I hope the mission and ministry of community colleges give you a joyous feeling.<\/p>\n<p>I wish each of you merriment and gladness this holiday season.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Joyance to you all<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-475 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2018\/12\/Joy_byBruceGarner-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2018\/12\/Joy_byBruceGarner-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2018\/12\/Joy_byBruceGarner.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<pre>Picture Credit:  By Jeangagnon - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=51252267<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joyance This word popped up on my phone yesterday as the word of the day.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t it charming?\u00a0 Even without knowing exactly what it means, it has a lovely lilt. Joyance Joyance &#8211; as you might expect &#8211; means joyous feeling.\u00a0 Gladness.\u00a0 Delight. Enjoyment. As we bring this semester and this year to a close, [&hellip;]<\/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-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","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=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}