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Blogs/Opinion

Bring in the clowns!

Today at a departmental meeting, I learned what our college president really thinks of my department’s faculty and the work we do. The good news is that we no longer have to pretend there is mutual respect. There isn’t. This revelation came about during a meeting about the qualifications for certain new hires. These new […]

Blogs/Opinion

Southside Man Leverages Training Program to Energize Promising New Career

Luke Storey has always been something of a ranch hand. Growing up in Southside Virginia, he’s worked the fields and farms that crisscross this rural landscape and become a bit of an agricultural expert in the process. There hasn’t been much else to do. Job opportunities have historically been relatively scarce in this neck of […]

Blogs/Opinion

Confessions of a Community College Dean

What do you do when a colleague’s spoken commitments and unspoken commitments seem to conflict? I read a piece this week in preparation for a workshop that really rang true. It’s about high performers who seem to have persistent blind spots, or isolated areas of chronic footdragging. It suggested that a common cause is an […]

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50 Years of Leadership Lands O’Banion Diverse Champions Award

Saying he was “humbled and deeply honored,” Dr. Terry O’Banion accepted the 2016 Diverse Champions Award before a packed ballroom this afternoon during the American Association of Community College Annual Convention’s Hail and Farewell Luncheon.

Leadership

White House Adding $100M Program to Tuition-free Community College Push

The White House will roll out a $100 million program to strengthen tuition-free community college programs across the United States early this summer, White House officials said on Monday.