Holiday Wishlist | Community Connections with RyanBy Ryan Gray There is one key aspect of my life for which the winter is the offseason… I’m a huge New York Mets fan.  I come from a long line of baseball fans and have loved playing and watching the game my whole life.  For Major League Baseball... Read More

Every year, the President pardons a turkey from being served up for Thanksgiving dinner.  So, the same must exist for AV turkeys, right?   I have my share of stories, like everyone in higher ed AV does, about failed products, projects, or poor decisions.  Most of those are pretty much the same as everyone else’s.  So,... Read More

Feeling Grateful | Community Connections with Ryan  I clearly remember when I decided I needed to find a way to join a new community.  It was December 2020, during winter break and I finally had to spend a day on yard work that I had been putting off for too long.  I was thinking about... Read More

On the first night after arriving in Orlando a few weeks ago for the ETC (CCUMC) Conference I was out at a brewery (big surprise) with a group of Higher Ed AV folks. I was giving Joe Way a hard time because my institution, Yavapai College, was listed as “Yavapai Community College” in the HETMA... Read More