Name: Think and Thrive Lecture Series
Start: 2025-10-02T15:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-02T17:15:00-05:00
Location: 1601 Jefferson St, Alexandria, MN, United States, Minnesota 56308

ATCC kicks off its Fall 2025 Think and Thrive Lecture Series on Tuesday, September 23 at 3:30 PM with a FREE public session on Servant Leadership featuring Alexandria native Mark Deterding, Founder and Principal of Triune Leadership Services, LLC. Deterding, a respected executive coach and leadership consultant, will share how servant leadership can foster personal growth and organizational success.
Since 2006, the lecture series has hosted distinguished speakers from across the state and beyond to share their thought-provoking presentations on education, history, science and the arts.
Following the free opening session, this year’s series includes eight additional lectures held Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30–5:15 PM. Presentations are available in-person at Auditorium 743 on the ATCC campus or online via Zoom. Participation is open to people of all ages. Membership is $125 per person and includes full access to the four-week program.
Schedule:
September 23 | Servant Leadership-Running to a Great Purpose. Presenter: Mark Deterding, Founder and Principal, Triune Leadership Services, LLC, Alexandria, MN
September 25 | It Happened There: Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Presenter: Chris Gehrz, Professor of History, Bethel University, St. Paul, MN
September 30 |The Future of Higher Education in the age of AI. Presenter: Mark Collier, Professor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota Morris and affiliate faculty member at the University of Minnesota Center for the Cognitive Sciences
October 2 | Making Meaning: Memory to Memoir. Presenter: Anne Clark, English Instructor, Alexandria Technical and Community College, Alexandria, MN
October 7 | Locked In: How the First American Prisons Still Shape Incarceration Today. Presenter: Jonathan Merritt Nash, Associate Professor of History, College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University, Collegeville, MN
October 9 | Beyond Recognition: What We Have Learned from People Who Can't Recognize Faces. Presenter: Dr. Sherryse Corrow is a professor of Psychology and Neuroscience with a Ph.D. in Child Psychology and a specialization in cognitive neuroscience.
October 14 | Message about the Medium: A Short History of How We Talk About Television. Presenter:Brad Stiffler, Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, Macalester College and the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
October 21 | Epigenetics. Presenter: Rachel Johnson, Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Minnesota Morris
October 23 | From Farmers and Laborers to Professionals and Service Workers: Tracing Minnesota’s Occupations since 1850.
Presenter: Louis Johnston, William E. and Virginia Clemens Professor of Economics and the Liberal Arts, College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, Collegeville, MN
Memberships may be purchased online. For more information and to register, visit alextech.edu/lectureseries. For additional assistance, please call Alexandria Technical and Community College at 320-762-4460.