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Austin Community Conversations
by Toño Ramirez
Discussions about the interests, backgrounds and projects animating the members of a vibrant college community
Episodes
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Parker Garcia: Student Success Spotlight
Parker Garcia is a recent ACC graduate who found his path to success through the college Honors Program. As you’ll hear, Parker didn’t necessarily see himself as a quote-unquote ‘honors student’ when he first enrolled. But the opportunities that he found in the Honors Program–and later as…
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Melissa Langley Biegert: "Make an Effort to Honor the Different Perspectives"
Dr. Melissa Langley Biegert is the Director of High School Programs Academic Success at Austin Community College. While she works to ensure that ACC’s scope and reach extends to a growing population of dual enrolled students taking college courses while still enrolled in high school, Dr. Biegert...
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All Too Human: The Obsession with 'Obsession' (with L Harter)
On July 31, the School of Humanities and Communications at Austin Community College will kick off our new speaker series, 'All Too Human'. The series aims at introducing humanistic inquiry, as well as the academic disciplines keeping it alive at ACC.L teaches courses in English and the Humanities...
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Celebrating Academic Excellence: Brinda Roy and Alex Watkins
On April 25, 2026, Austin Community College hosted its annual Student Research Symposium event, showcasing outstanding original academic work by ACC students across all disciplines. Eleven ACC students were also honored at the annual Curiositas Academic Journal release ceremony, recognizing a...
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Madeline Vosch: Empathy Through Memoir
Madeline Vosch teaches courses in Creative Writing, Humanities and Religious Studies disciplines at ACC. We discuss her book ‘Undead: A Memoir of My Suicide’, soon to be published by Beacon Press. The book integrates her interdisciplinary scholarly background and creative voice into a powerful...
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Bryan Port: Fostering Impactful Civic Leaders
Bryan Port serves as the Director for the Center for Government and Civic Service at Austin Community College. Bryan and his team bring civic engagement to life in new and innovative ways, and I invite you to learn about what they offer both to ACC’s students and the broader Austin community....
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ACC's Character Education Initiative: Kelly Greenwood, Ted Hadzi-Antich, Arun Johns and Grant Potts
My guests today are Arun John, Kelly Greenwood, Grant Potts and Ted Hadzi-Antich, and they’ll be talking about their work on the Character Education Initiative at Austin Community College. I think this work has the potential for profound impact on the way that we think about both teaching and...
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Ted Hadzi-Antich: Learning Via the Great Questions
Ted Hadzi-Antich is a government professor and one of the founders of the Great Questions Seminar at ACC. Here you’ll learn about how the Seminar focuses on the fundamental elements of close readings of source texts, open ended discussion, and classroom community. By the end, I think you’ll find…
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Grant Potts: ‘The Humility We Need to be Good Thinkers’
Dr. Grant H. Potts serves as Dean of Curriculum Management at Austin Community College,, overseeing award plans and scheduling in accordance with state and federal reporting requirements. He is a Professor of Philosophy, former Chair of the Philosophy, Religion, and Humanities department, and has...
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Matty Martinez-Mandell: 'Anyone Can Be a Peace-Builder"'
Matty Martinez-Mandell serves as coordinator for the Peace and Conflict Studies Center at Austin Community College. We discuss the role that the center plays in promoting peaceful resolutions to conflicts of all kinds, the ways in which Matty’s distinctive academic background informs their work,...
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Prudence Arcenaux: 'What's That Person's Story?'
Through poetry and prose, language becomes a vehicle for connecting readers directly with the thoughts, beliefs and lived experiences of authors. My guest today is Prudence Arceneaux, who guides students as Chair of the Creative Writing Department at Austin Community College. In addition to...
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Matt Kliewer: 'It Takes a Lot of Empathetic and Compassionate Listening'
Matt Kliewer is a Humanities instructor at Austin Community College and a scholar in the field of Native American and global Indigenous literature, film and media. Matt and I will lead a discussion following a screening of the Jim Jarmusch film Dead Man at the Austin Film Society’s cinema on...
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Jason Epps: 'We Must Support Students With Real Fears'
Jason Epps is a faculty member in the Philosophy department at Austin Community College. Jason is deeply interested in stoicism, an ancient movement that’s enjoyed a resurgence of popular interest in recent years. He uses it as a vehicle for teaching philosophy as both as an intellectual…
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Allison Bumsted: 'It's About Understanding Who We Are'
Allison Bumsted is a faculty member in the Humanities department at Austin Community College. In addition to teaching multiple sections of the Introduction to Humanities course to dual credit students each semester, Allison is an active working scholar in her own right. As you’ll hear in this...
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Matthew Daude: Liberal Arts Can Save the World
Matthew Daude has been a vital presence at Austin Community College for 35 years. Here we discuss a few of the many roles he’s held, including Professor of Philosophy, Chair of the Philosophy Department, and Dean of Liberal Arts—a position he held for 10 years. Among other topics, we cover his...
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Discussions about the interests, backgrounds and projects animating the members of a vibrant college community
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