Austin Peay launches new podcast – ‘Experience Austin Peay’ – to celebrate university’s importance to the region

(Posted on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022)

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The podcast's first episode launched this week.

Austin Peay State University has launched a new podcast – “The Austin Peay Experience” – to highlight what the university is doing to become the region’s university of choice by APSU’s centennial in 2027.

The podcast borrows its name from Austin Peay’s newly unveiled five-year strategic plan, The Experience Austin Peay 2022-2027 Strategic Plan, which has four pillars – The Academic Experience, The Student Experience, The Employee Experience and The Community Experience.

As APSU President Mike Licari said when he unveiled it over the summer, the strategic plan reflects “that we are a teaching-focused university, we are a student-centered university, and that we are a family, that we need to support and find ways for everyone here – students, faculty and staff – to be successful.”

The podcast will share some of those success stories by highlighting how the university’s students, alumni, professors and employees contribute to the region’s unique tapestry.

The podcast’s first season, “Forgotten Tennessee,” will focus on the university’s work in preserving and celebrating the state’s history and legends.

The first episode, for example, features Dr. Meagan Mann, an associate professor in the Austin Peay State University’s Department of Chemistry, and highlights her research on the possible role of arsenic in the Bell Witch legend. The episode posted this week.

The episode, titled “Mixing Science with the Legend of the Bell Witch,” not only celebrates a local legend, but it also elevates a professor’s interesting work in the region. Mann appeared in the 2015 debut of A&E’s five-part documentary drama and paranormal investigative series “Cursed: The Bell Witch.”

Where can you find The Austin Peay Experience Podcast?

Apple

Spotify

iHeart Radio

Amazon Music

Podbean

 

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