Galaxy Forum with Melissa Kaplan

David Siwik has taught history at LCC for over 15 years, including Michigan History, US History and Historiography, which is the study of historical methods. He’s also a project manager and instructional designer in LCC’s corporate training division. His degrees in history come from Central Michigan University where he earned a Masters, and from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland,...

Susan McGinnis Hardie teaches foundational arts in LCC’s Art and Design program. A professional artist and illustrator, she has multiple clients as well as private commissions. She received her BFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and her masters from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley CA with a focus on art and religion. She also served as their Director of A...

Guests Rob Edwards (LCC) and Terry Terry (Message Makers) discuss LCC’s Digital Media program, what students learn and what they need to learn to land jobs, the kind of media jobs in our community today, and the ever-changing nature of media. Rob Edwards is on the faculty of LCC’s Digital Media, Audio and Cinema program. He’s been a producer, director and educator for over 30 years, working in nea...

Barbara McCarty Clauer is a professor of Integrated English at LCC where she teaches literature, writing and poetry, and she is the founder and director of the LCC Community-Generated Poetry Project. She began teaching at LCC in 2001 and in 2017, inspired by participation in a community-generated poetry conference session, created what evolved into the Poetry Project at LCC. She sees it as a culmi...