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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">Dear Friends and Colleagues (Aka the Hive Mind):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">One of the wonderful faculty leaders for student learning, Melody Schneider of Edmonds CC, wrote to me with the following inquiry: In light of the UN report on
climate change issued recently, and because of the classes I teach that investigate climate change data . . .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">How can our colleges prepare our students to live in a changing climate?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">Melody found an interesting
<span style="background:yellow"><a href="https://secondnature.org/wp-content/uploads/Higher_Education_Role_Adapting_Changing_Climate.pdf" target="_blank">report</a>
</span>from several years ago about how colleges could lead . . . however, other than work at University of Washington, she found nothing about the role community colleges play in educating students for the future in a changed climate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">Melody’s Ask:
<b><i><u><span style="background:yellow">Do you know of or have heard about any groups who are working on this issue?</span></u></i></b><span style="background:yellow"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;background:yellow">Please respond to Melody at
<a href="mailto:melody.schneider@email.edcc.edu" target="_blank">melody.schneider@email.edcc.edu</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Whetham </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:#003764">(pronouns: she/her/hers)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:#003764"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.55pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:#003764">Assessment, Teaching, and Learning
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.55pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#003764">Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#003764">• o: 360-704-4354 • c: 206-310-1291<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.55pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#003764">Register Now</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#003764">
for the </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"><a href="http://bit.ly/2kGygBt"><span style="color:#4472C4">2018 New Faculty Institute</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">“I’m not interested in the exceptions, only the patterns. As a culture, we (the U.S.) focus too much on exceptions, often fooling ourselves into believing that
because there are exceptions, the rule no longer exists or that it’s easily broken by anyone with enough willpower or hutzpah.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">Asao B. Inoue,
<i><a href="http://bit.ly/2xvacY4">Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies</a></i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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