{"id":53240,"date":"2026-07-24T11:52:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=53240"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:52:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:52:53","slug":"acc-chancellor-featured-on-national-reimagining-highered-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2026\/07\/24\/acc-chancellor-featured-on-national-reimagining-highered-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC Chancellor Featured on National Reimagining HigherEd Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Austin Community College District (ACC) Chancellor Dr. Russell Lowery-Hart is featured on the national \u201cReimagining HigherEd\u201d podcast, sharing how ACC is redesigning higher education by putting students\u2014not systems\u2014at the center of every decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a conversation with host Professor Judyth Sachs, Lowery-Hart discusses the College&#8217;s student-first approach and how listening directly to students has transformed the way ACC supports success.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Topics discussed:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Building systems around students.<\/strong> Rather than assuming students leave college because of challenges in the classroom, ACC has focused on understanding and addressing the real-life barriers students face outside of it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Empowering frontline employees.<\/strong> ACC has intentionally redesigned processes to give faculty and staff the flexibility to solve problems without navigating layers of bureaucracy, creating faster, more responsive support for students.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Using AI to strengthen human connection.<\/strong> The College is leveraging artificial intelligence to identify when students may need help and proactively connect them with advisors and support services\u2014enhancing, not replacing, personal relationships.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listen to the full episode of \u201cReimagining HigherEd\u201d:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/reimagining-highered\/id1612009467?i=1000777987113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/70TjrNbIRjtf61r7lnSd59\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College District (ACC) Chancellor Dr. Russell Lowery-Hart is featured on the national \u201cReimagining HigherEd\u201d podcast, sharing how ACC is redesigning higher education by putting students\u2014not systems\u2014at the center of every decision. In a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2026\/07\/24\/acc-chancellor-featured-on-national-reimagining-highered-podcast\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3930,"featured_media":52793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12],"tags":[2034,3477,4432,2414],"class_list":["post-53240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-announcements","category-business-and-community","tag-chancellor","tag-podcast","tag-reimagining-highere","tag-russell-lowery-hart"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3930"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53241,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53240\/revisions\/53241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}