{"id":791,"date":"2019-11-28T09:30:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T15:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/?p=791"},"modified":"2019-11-27T15:25:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T21:25:33","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-an-avp-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-avp-gratitude\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day in the Life of an AVP: Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"

While a modern Thanksgiving often turns on football, family, and food, it is also a time to be grateful.\u00a0 So this month’s edition of A Day in the Life<\/em> is about gratitude.<\/p>\n

I am grateful for good people doing good work at ACC.\u00a0 Today I met with Grant Potts and Estrella Barrera, who have led the roll-out of our faculty student mentoring program. They are two very good people who have done very good work.<\/p>\n

I am grateful for colleagues who drop into my office and distract me – or who let me drop into their offices to help me think something through.\u00a0 This one is always a long list (!), but today the list includes Gretchen Riehl, Charles Cook, Rich Griffiths, and Tammy Chalermpued.<\/p>\n

I am grateful for the opportunity to serve the mission of Austin Community College and help change the trajectory of our students’ lives.\u00a0 We make the difference for students who find their paths into a career or program of study that fits their interests and talents.\u00a0 We make the difference for students who need to learn English, or pass a high school equivalency exam, or change careers, or upgrade their skills, or learn how to read, or pass their math class.\u00a0\u00a0We make the difference for students who are the first in their families to go to college and who discover that ACC is, indeed, for everyone.<\/p>\n

I am grateful for challenging projects, and bosses with high expectations, and friends and colleagues across the college who help me, brainstorm with me, listen to me, and support me.\u00a0 Our work matters, and if we do it well, then we are doing it together.<\/p>\n

My thanks to each and every one of you.\u00a0 \u00a0We get to come to work every day knowing the impact we can have – and it’s a wonderful thing to be grateful for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While a modern Thanksgiving often turns on football, family, and food, it is also a time to be grateful.\u00a0 So this month’s edition of A Day in the Life is about gratitude. I am grateful for good people doing good work at ACC.\u00a0 Today I met with Grant Potts and Estrella Barrera, who have led […]<\/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-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","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=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}