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CCBC is a college that strives to live its commitment to diversity by counting inclusion among its core institutional values. Over the past two years, ravaged by two distinctly different pandemics – one, a virus and the other, an awakening to social justice, it is more important than ever for us to sustain our commitment to celebrating our broad definition…
Continue readingI write to wish all of you a Happy Thanksgiving. The pandemic remains a factor in our lives, but far less than last year when many of our Thanksgiving dinners were enjoyed with family members via zoom, rather than in person. Now that we are more in hybrid mode and slowly feeling our way back into sociability, I encourage each of…
Continue readingEach November, I am struck by the proximity between Veterans Day and the two fall events which precede it: the anniversary of 9/11 and Election Day. The extra special nature of 9/11 this year was the celebration of the 20th anniversary of an American catastrophe turned into American triumph. Election Day, as it always does, reassures us – everyday Americans…
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