Randy Bretz – Medium

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·Jul 22

Try a Little Kindness

Americans have debated and pondered equality for the African American race for hundreds of years and even after many Supreme Court decisions regarding education among other matters, we’re still racist. I was reminded of this as we celebrated Junteenth. That’s a celebration of freedom for Africans that actually took two…

Kindness

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·May 27

Let’s Turn Brain Drain into Brain Gain

by Randy Bretz Not long ago I heard a news report talking about Nebraska’s “brain drain.” The story focused primarily on recent college and university graduates who leave the state in search of what appear to be greater opportunities. Research suggests that each year, we lose about 500 college graduates…

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May 2

Two Phone Calls That Changed My Life

Two Phone Calls That Changed My Life By Randy Bretz — May, 2022 I remember the call like it was yesterday. Quentin Gessner reached me at my desk at the Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System (we called it IHETS) and said he had a job he thought I might be interested in. That was January 1979, Gessner…

Continuing Education

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·Apr 1

Passing the Baton

Face it, we’re handing the next generation a bag of challenges to deal with. I won’t go into listing some of them, instead let’s switch our focus to the next generation, and the one after that and do something positive to help them as they grab the baton. …

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·Feb 26

The Blue Butterfly

Words Matter by Rick Alloway I transferred to a different school when I entered the fourth grade. It was a big change for a young guy who had not always easily embraced change. New building, new teachers, new classmates. I sought out things that seemed familiar and comfortable. …

Words Matter

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Feb 20

Reflections on a Phone Call

It was December 1995 and I had just experienced my first FACTS Management Company winter sales meeting in San Antonio. Most folks were catching planes home and we were saying goodbye in the lobby. I remember Warren Arleth saying he wasn’t feeling so good and was going to go up…

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Feb 11

Calming the Cacophony

By Randy Bretz Not long ago Jan and I attended a concert of the Lincoln Symphony. As the orchestra members warmed up their instruments it was cacophony until William McMullen played an “A” note on his oboe, and as each member of the orchestra listened and began to play the…

Second Mountain

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·Feb 11

Calming the Cacophony

by Randy Bretz Not long ago Jan and I attended a concert of the Lincoln Symphony. As the orchestra members warmed up their instruments it was cacophony until William McMullen played an “A” note on his oboe, and as each member of the orchestra listened and began to play the…

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·Jan 31

Why is This STILL So Hard?

Posted by Randy Hawthorne Starting something new, especially with a group of highly regarded individuals, is overwhelming. I don’t know how I feel about being the second in the lineup while this publication is still setting tone? So, to gain inspiration for my first post I decided to head over…

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·Jan 19

The View from 8 Angles (not Angels)

Introduction by Kevin Shinn Many years ago, when my children were in elementary school, I would get in line, along with the dozens of other parents in the long queue of cars, to drop them off at the front entrance each morning. I remember one day in particular that has…

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