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Bob Bland — Lessons from 36 years in Academia


Bob Bland is an endowed professor in public administration. In January he shared about lessons he has learned from being in academia for more than three decades:

“My life has not been a well planned sequence of decisions, but rather a series of events that God used to shape my character and faith.

“We lived on a small farm in Colorado, northwest of Ft. Collins, on the way to Laramie. The farm had been in my family for several generations. Though we were never particularly successful, we had a modest lifestyle. Continue reading