Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements from Dave Dillon, curator and editor of Modern Blueprint for College and Career Success:

This project could not have been completed alone and I am deeply grateful for the support of some incedible people around me who helped it reach fruition.

Special thanks to Apurva Ashok (Rebus) for all of your continued support, wisdom, guidance, and inspiration.

Thanks to John McLeod (Pressbooks) for the logistical, organizational, and technical foundations for Modern Blueprint.  And thanks to Steel Wagstaff (Pressbooks) for support, confidence, and technical guidance.

Thanks to Norma Cárdenes, Linnea Spitzer, Amy Hofer, and Patricia Vasquez for their work with the Blueprint Oregon edition, the Spanish translation of the Blueprint Oregon edition, and for the journey they embarked on.

Thanks to Hugh McGuire and Zoe Wake Hyde for support with bringing the original idea to reality many years ago.

Thanks to Amy Baldwin and the OpenStax contributing authors and team, and to all of the college success authors from College of the Canyons: Conception Perez, Graciela Martinez, Elizabeth Shaker, Alexa Johnson, Erika Torgeson, Alex Gavilan, Julie Hovden, Anh Nguyen, Aivee Ortega, Trudi Radtke, and Patricia Garcia. Thanks also to Walter Butler, Aloha Sargent, Kelsey Smith, Robert Levine, Kimberly Ernstmeyer, Elizabeth Christman, Fatima Rodriguez Johnson, Rebecca Heibert, Jason Wrench, Narissa Punyanunt-Carter, Katherine Thweatt, Enyonam Osei-Hwere, Patrick Osei-Hwere, J. Zachary Klingensmith, and Susan Fried. Thank you to these authors who openly shared their work and provide this OER textbook with a diversity of voices.

Thanks to original (first Blueprint OER) open authors Linda (Bruce) Hill, the team at Lumen Learning, Alise Lamoreaux, Phyllis Nissila, Thomas Priester (and all of the Foundations of Success: Words of Wisdom authors) for creating high quality college success content and openly licensing it.

Thank you to my wife, Lindsay, and my daughters, Brooklyn and Molly, for their support (again), and especially for allowing me to work on the project during times when it was not most convenient to do so. And thanks for putting up with multiple piles of this project in various rooms of our house for many months.

Thank you to my parents, Carole and Joe Dillon, for inspiring me in education, teaching values, for nurturing optimism, diversity, enthusiasm, patience, and persistence to be able to finish the project – and make continuous improvements to it.

Thanks to my “think tank”, Una Daly, Nicole Finkbeiner, James Glapa-Grossklag, and Amy Hofer. You all helped me get started, unstuck, and to the finish line. Your continued support and answers to my questions have been invaluable.

Thanks to T Ford for unconditional support, encouragement, wisdom, and advice.

Thanks to all of my colleagues in building 10 and throughout Grossmont College.

Thanks to Nadra Farina-Hess, Lara Braff, Dawn Heuft, and Tate Hurvitz for support of open educational resources and of the Blueprint projects.

Thank you to the Academic Senate for the California Community Colleges’ OERI (Open Educational Resource Initiative) for your passion towards textbook affordability and open licensing, amazing support, collaboration, enthusiasm, creativity, and ideas.

Thank you to the Textbook and Academic Author Association. Your resources and expertise have contributed to the quality of this textbook in may ways.

Thank you to the Global Studies Division and (EPIC) Education Partnership for Internationalizing Curriculum Program at Stanford University for supporting innovation and development of global and international studies.