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Chair Kwaai

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Joined June 2009
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Student success should be the primary mission of any college, yet transparency remains a major issue. Institutions must start learning from their mistakes instead of brushing them under the carpet. trusteevote.com/ #collegeofthecanyons #santaclarita
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The firing of David Andrus remains an indelible stain on the board members who voted for it. It is a decision that rightfully earned a vote of no confidence from key stakeholders. Learn more at trusteevote.com/ #collegeofthecanyons #santaclarita
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Colleges shouldn't guess what jobs are coming. By inviting employers to set up shop on campus, we can integrate real industry experience into the curriculum. #CollegeOfTheCanyons #SantaClarita #HigherEd #FutureOfWork #StudentSuccess #CareerReady #Innovation
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Educational institutions fail when they prioritize budget spreadsheets over the actual product: student success. #CollegeOfTheCanyons #SantaClarita #HigherEducation #StudentSuccess #CommunityCollege #BoardGovernance #EducationReform
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Growing up under apartheid meant seeing freedom only from a distance. #CollegeOfTheCanyons #SantaClarita #History #Apartheid #Freedom #HumanRights #Inspiration
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History leaves a mark. From a family history of activism to hosting Gandhi in the family home, the fight against injustice is a personal legacy. #CollegeOfTheCanyons #SantaClarita #History #Activism #Gandhi #Legacy #SocialJustice
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Machines are replacing rote, repetitive work. To stay ahead, stop acting like a machine. #collegeofthecanyons #santaclarita #FutureOfWork #CriticalThinking #Humanity #CareerAdvice #AIRevolution
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A college board's job is not balancing Excel spreadsheets; it is student success. #CollegeOfTheCanyons #SantaClarita #HigherEd #BoardGovernance #StudentSuccess #EducationReform #CommunityCollege
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Student success must be the primary mission. When organizations obsess over budgets instead of their core product, they fail. We must hold leadership accountable for outcomes, not just balance sheets. Learn more at trusteevote.com/ #collegeofthecanyons #santaclarita
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A forensic audit has exposed massive corruption at College of the Canyons, revealing phantom projects, bid splitting, and shadow agendas. Transparency must become the priority instead of covering up these institutional failures. #SantaClarita #Transparency
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Shared governance is the antidote to autocracy. When leadership relies on top-down control, organizations become paralyzed. Real progress happens when teams at every level are empowered to make decisions. Learn more at trusteevote.com/ #collegeofthecanyons #santaclarita
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College of the Canyons is the crown jewel of our valley, but recent governance failures and financial scandals have been staggering. #CollegeOfTheCanyons #SantaClarita
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A forensic audit has exposed systemic corruption at the college, including phantom projects and shell company bid-splitting. Education should be the priority, not a shadow agenda. It is time for transparency and accountability. #Transparency #Accountability
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Beware of 'anthropodenial' – the dangerous refusal to see human-like traits in animals. It's a hypothesis, not a default, and has a poor track record. Crows solving puzzles and transitive inference in animals show this bias is wrong. #AnimalCognition #ScienceFacts #Anthropodenial
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Big tech won't save us, and the government can't keep up. If you want a future where AI is safer, faster, and greener, you have to build it yourself. Kwaai is a volunteer-driven, open-source movement. Learn more at kwaai.ai/ #kwaai #kwaai #OpenSourceAI #TechEthics
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Our brains struggle with precise counting when numbers are close. The ratio effect—how close numbers are—dictates our accuracy and speed, not just for humans, but for animals too. It's a shared mechanism revealing how quantity is processed. #CognitiveScience #RatioEffect #kwaai
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Understanding AI requires looking under the hood. Just like testing animal intelligence, we need to move beyond simple prompts and examine model activations and checkpoints. Real progress in AI safety depends on independent, verifiable research. #AISafety #MachineLearning
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Our brains process quantity based on ratios, not exact counts. When the margin between two numbers shrinks, decision-making slows and error rates climb—a pattern shared across the animal kingdom. #Learn more at kwaai.ai/ #kwaai #CognitiveScience #Psychology
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