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March 09, 2026 • 01:12:44
ACC's Character Education Initiative: Kelly Greenwood, Ted Hadzi-Antich, Arun Johns and Grant Potts

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...

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March 06, 2026 • 01:00:42
Ted Hadzi-Antich: Learning Via the Great Questions

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...

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January 21, 2026 • 01:11:14
Grant Potts: ‘The Humility We Need to be Good Thinkers’

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...

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January 14, 2026 • 00:36:03
Matty Martinez-Mandell: 'Anyone Can Be a Peace-Builder"'

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...

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November 25, 2025 • 00:51:26
Prudence Arcenaux: 'What's That Person's Story?'

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...

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November 12, 2025 • 01:12:28
Matt Kliewer: 'It Takes a Lot of Empathetic and Compassionate Listening'

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...

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