Guest Blogger – ACC LAHC Administration

Reflection on An American Lyric

My guest author today is Desiree Morales, who writes in response to Claudia Rankine’s Citizen, the Big Read book choice for 2017-18. Desiree Morales is the Entrepreneurship Coordinator for the Career and Technical Education Department of the Austin Independent School District. She is currently completing her first year as part of AISD’s Cultural Proficiency and Inclusiveness Cohort. Her poetry has appeared in What Rough Beast, Conflict of Interest, and Truck. (I highly recommend Desiree’s poem “Anthropocene,” from What Rough Beast.)

I was at the Blanton a few weeks ago standing in Ellsworth Kelly’s Chapel, and I just breathed for a little while. I was exhausted from a full day with the AISD Cultural Proficiency and Inclusiveness cohort—a group of forty educators learning how to do equity work in our schools. It’s the most grueling work I have ever loved to do, and I wish there was no reason for me to do it. Tonight I’m back to hear Claudia Rankine read and discuss Citizen, An American Lyric, and I’m filled with contradictory sentiments again: I’m excited to hear one of the great poets of my life read from a painful book I wish we didn’t need.

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Faculty Emergency Fund Campaign

In 1999-2000 when I first served on the Faculty Senate, the Student Emergency Fund came up in a discussion at a monthly meeting. I asked if there was a faculty emergency fund. We didn’t have one at the time. So, as a representative Continue reading “Faculty Emergency Fund Campaign”

Let’s Lead the Way

Thanks to Frank Cronin for a return appearance as guest blogger. Today, Frank’s topic is the Leg’s mandate concerning DevEd and paired sections, along with an LAHC initiative to improve the paired sections infrastructure.

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Let’s Lead the Way

The Texas Legislature in the 2017 session passed a bill requiring 75% of DEVED courses in higher education to be paired with college level courses by 2020. The INRW department in its current and earlier forms, DEVR and DEVW, has done these kinds of pairing since the early 2000s: Continue reading “Let’s Lead the Way”

Are You Ever Too Old for a Field Trip?

My guest blogger today is Travis Mann, from the department of Business, Government, and Technical Communications. I met Travis in the smoke from wieners cooking on a little grill during a River Bat Bash at Cypress. By the time we finished our conversation, they’d run out of hot dogs. Next best thing: a trip to the learning lab. Continue reading “Are You Ever Too Old for a Field Trip?”

Capital City Scribes, Austin’s calligraphy guild

I was chatting with Charlee Knight at the Cypress, campus, and she mentioned that she was a member of Capital City Scribes, Austin’s very own calligraphy guild. I had no idea — but I’m not passing up this opportunity. Here’s what she says about CSS and their upcoming exhibit in Georgetown.

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2018 History Symposium: Transcendentalism

My guest blogger today is Frank Cronin, one of the presenters for this year’s History Symposium, Transcendentalism. I was eager to have him share his reflections with you about his experience at ACC. Continue reading “2018 History Symposium: Transcendentalism”