Becoming a National University
Between 1964 and 1975, Antioch grew from having one campus in Yellow Springs, Ohio to having more than forty separate campuses, centers, clusters, and circuits spread across the United States and beyond.
Between 1964 and 1975, Antioch grew from having one campus in Yellow Springs, Ohio to having more than forty separate campuses, centers, clusters, and circuits spread across the United States and beyond.
A half-century after helping open Antioch’s Los Angeles campus, Al Erdynast is still looking forward to what comes next.
“Would it be possible to create a low-residency doctoral program?” The idea was enticing. It would allow leaders from all across the country and internationally to enroll, studying at a distance and then gathering four times a year for in-person residencies.
As the 1960s began, Antioch College was one thing only: a small liberal-arts college with a single campus founded in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1852. But some of the faculty had larger ambitions…
In the late ’60s, J. Edgar Hoover signed off on a plan to infiltrate Antioch University, spy on its alumni, and use this intel to discredit Antioch in the eyes of the public. A decade later, documents describing this plot came to Antioch’s president—only to end up hidden deep in an archive.
Antioch University was established in 1852 in Yellow Springs, Ohio. From the start it has worked to live up to its founding principles of equity and social justice. Originally serving solely undergraduates, until 1978 it was known as Antioch College.
I call Claudia J. Ford ’86, ’15 (Antioch College, MBA) in Health Administration and Antioch New England, PhD in Environmental Studies) on a weekday morning. The first thing that strikes me is the calm, silky timbre of her voice.
Wendy Ortiz came to Antioch as a young person with an important story to excavate. She found literary mentorship, a psychology career, and even lifelong partnership. But that doesn’t mean the rest has been simple.
Alumni Deb Moy, Max Golding and Isais Narvaez talk to the Seed Field podcast about centering activism in their lives and careers.
Growing up in Los Angeles, Yolanda Davis-Overstreet ’18 (Antioch Los Angeles, MA in Urban Sustainability) spent the ubiquitous sunny afternoons of her childhood pedaling up and down city sidewalks.
Getting kids reading takes more than a little doing—it requires making the library somewhere students want to be.
In 2012, I graduated from college, and that fall I took a small surplus of student loan money and traveled to India.
When I started my position as a librarian in early 2020, I didn’t know much about the history of Antioch University.
Welcome to this special history edition of the Antioch Alumni Magazine. It has been said that no business survives over the long term without reinventing itself—repeatedly. Over its long history, Antioch has certainly proven this true.
New national, nonprofit, university system will educate students for careers and to advance social justice, democracy, and the common good
“We need beauty. it helps us make sense of our world,” says the multidisciplinary artist Marietta Patricia Leis ’72, ’75 (Antioch Los Angeles, BA in Psychology, MA in Clinical Psychology).
Today, I want to call upon you to dissent. To engage in principled insubordination against injustice…
Antioch’s teaching forest, Glover’s Ledge, sits on 81 acres of conserved land in Langdon, New Hampshire.
“The current population is extremely small and vulnerable, and it only takes one poacher to kill a red wolf,” says Suzanne Agan ’20 (Antioch New England, PhD in Environmental Studies).
When Dana Waters got an autism diagnosis as an adult, she was nervous that it might change how her friends and colleagues perceived her.
“When we stop communities from being able to grow their food, we create a cycle of dependency.”
With establishment of Social Courage Award, Steve Crandall builds on his family’s legacy of service and study.
When Victoria Chang started as the Poetry Editor for The New York Times Magazine this year, the first thing she did doesn’t sound very poetic—she made a spreadsheet.
Since our founding 1852, Antioch University has remained on the forefront of social justice, inclusion, and equality – regardless of ethnicity, gender, creed, orientation, focus of study, or ability.
Antiochians actively reflect these shared values to inspire positive change in the world. Common Thread is where we document the stories that showcase our communities actions, so the change we work for can be shared widely.
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