In this episode, Tim and Mark interview a "non-traditional" student, JD Ward.

Our podcast needs a new name. Take a listen to Tim Molina and Mark Farris discuss life as a faculty member for a community college in San Antonio, TX. We started as a Mass Communication podcast, then became faculty-focused, and now we are just trying to make it in the higher ed. landscape.

Give the podcast a listen, and help us come up with a new name. Be sure to check out the student-led NVC Wildcats Podcast at https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nvc-podcast/episodes/ep--1-march-events--plus-stem-e2169c5

In this second episode of the Faculty Forum format Tim and I take a field trip. We record live from the St. Phillips College Fiesta of Teaching Technology event. We talk to several individuals who were in attendance about how technology is being used in the Alamo Colleges District.

Tim and I steer the boat in a new direction. We sit just with each other and talk about PBL, Chat GPT, and other musings of the semester.

This small clip introduces the audience to the new format of the podcast.

"Dr. Stewart began his career as a sportswriter before becoming an attorney. He has served as the editor-in-chief of Dispute Resolution Magazine, a city editor and columnist at the Columbia Missourian, and is licensed to practice law in Texas. He is the co-founding editor of Community Journalism, the online, peer-reviewed official journal of AEJMC’s Community Journalism Interest Group."

https://schieffercollege.tcu.edu/faculty_staff/daxton-chip-stewart/

Follow Dr. Stewart on Twitter: @MediaLawProf

Jose Ortiz is the creator behind the Pet Rock Media Channel. Tim chats with him because I was stuck in traffic and am horrible at scheduling sometimes. 

Senior Marketing Programs Developer at SWBC Prior to this role, Stephen worked 10 years in the requestsmarketing communications field for nonprofits, an engineering firm, and for a public relations agency. The day-to-day during these past roles is different every day. One day you could be coordinating an event, another day you might be writing and distributing a press release, pitching and fielding media request, writing, developing strategic plans, supporting social media efforts, and more.

An often-overlooked element of the higher ed classroom is empathy. It is a skill that is difficult to teach and is not immediately helpful when learning math or science. However, Brianda Carrasco feels that teaching empathy is a crucial part of teaching.

Brianda is a proud first-generation college graduate and first to graduate in her family. She received a BFA in Theatre in 2014 and a Master's in Secondary Education with a minor in Adult Education and teaching concentration in dual credit in 2017 from Texas State University. She recently received her Master of Arts in Theatre from Regent University in 2020. She has worked in higher education for seven years and has been an adjunct with Northeast Lakeview College for 3 years. Her life has been non-stop theatre for about 15 years as an actress, director, stage manager, designer, and technician. She REALLY hopes that once it is safe, she can get back out there! She loves theatre, the power of education, walking outside, bike riding, baking, anything chocolate, loving on her two pups and cat, and reading theatre scripts.