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New Guaranteed Full-Tuition Scholarships and Integrated Work Program
Antioch College Works addresses work-readiness, affordability, and value of liberal arts education head-on.Yellow Springs, OH (December 11, 2019) — Antioch College is pleased to announce Antioch College Works, a new program that fundamentally alters...
Faculty News
Kevin McGruder Quoted in NY Times Piece
In a paid post with Facebook Watch on The New York Times' website, Vice President for Academic Affairs Kevin McGruder is quoted in the interactive story about the murder of a Polish immigrant, Isidore Fink. Read the story on The New York Times...
Notes From the Field: Louise Smith
Fall 2019 Notes From the Field is a series of updates from Antioch College faculty members about the travel, research, and other scholarly activities they've conducted. Associate Professor of Performance Louise Smith ’77 has been on...
Notes From the Field: Jennifer Grubbs and Téofilo Espada-Brignoni
Fall 2019Notes From the Field is a series of updates from Antioch College faculty members about the travel and research they've conducted. As a collaborative effort, Dr. Jennifer Grubbs (Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology) and Dr. Téofilo...
From the President: Lines of Thinking
“Lines of Thinking” is a monthly feature from College President Tom Manley. Each installment features a poem selected for its powers to transport us to some higher, lower or common ground, and, possibly in the process, provide fresh perspective and insight on the ground we occupy daily.
Being the Shortest Day
At year’s end, I experience a heightened awareness of time and light and their interplay. The low-slung sun moves over the edge of the backyard fence; it beams through an otherwise innocuous container on the windowsill, casting a light shadow of...
The Purpose of Poetry: Wendell Berry, Czelaw Milosz, Jack Gilbert
Lines of thinking easily ride the river of consciousness, below or above our level of awareness. Talk about live streaming! When the proverbial dots are connected, if they are at all, we may see patterns and relationships in our lives that appear...
Songs and Maps Against Forgetfulness — Joy Harjo
“Crucial to finding the way is this: there is no beginning or end.You must make your own map.” —Joy Harjo The notion of mapmaking while journeying is potent for me. Whitman and Eliot draw upon it; Strand, Rich, Bishop and Frost as well; and Homer,...
FEATURED EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING STORIES
Antioch is the premier college for the applied liberal arts. The following student-written pieces are reflections from real-world work experiences gained through Antioch College’s flagship Cooperative Education (Co-op) program. Read more about experiential learning on Antioch Engaged, our journal of social practice & professional engagement.
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Community Solution in Practice-Noah Yasgur ’19
by Noah Yasgur on June 5, 2019 at 6:18 pm
In a nutshell, and as seen on their website, the aim of Community Solutions “is to educate people about ways to […]
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Art, Interview, Translations: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
by Sarah Tibble on May 15, 2019 at 12:56 pm
When I first thought of working for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the idea seemed daunting. Washington […]
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Sam Eagleburger ’19 at Center for Global Justice and Tianguis Organico in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
by Luisa Bieri on August 11, 2018 at 7:01 pm
San Miguel De Allende gets the latter part of its name from Ignacio José de Allende y Unzaga, a general in the […]
Alumni Achievements
Dan Kaplan ’76 Profiled
Dan Kaplan '76 was recently profiled in the New England Farm Weekly. The feature discusses his alternate career path to farming, from studying history and journalism at Antioch College to a string of successes at different start-up companies. Kaplan...
In Memoriam
Alice Mabelle Cooper Wright ’48
Alice Mabelle (Cooper) Wright, age 94 years, a resident of The Herrick House, Assisted Living, in Massachusetts, died January 14, 2020. A native of Cambridge, MA, graduating from Cambridge High and Latin School and the first of her family to attend...
Wanda Robinson Baily-Green ’77
Wanda Robinson Bailey-Green, a teacher and political activist, died on Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019. She was 75. She was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, to the late Alma Bailey Anderson and James Omar Bailey on Sept. 21, 1944. She graduated from Penn...
Wilson Hopkins “Tony” Bent
Wilson Hopkins "Tony" Bent died peacefully and with family present after a brief illness, on Dec 17, 2019, at Soin Medical Center in Beavercreek. He was 95 years old. Tony was born April 21, 1924, in Chicago, Ill., and moved as an infant to Berea,...
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Line Dancing with Lynn Hardman
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