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2021 Legacy Celebration Honorees Announced
The Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom at Antioch College (CSKC) will present awards to Mila Cooper and Chris Chavers ’21 during its annual Legacy Celebration which will be held virtually on Thursday, April 29, at 1 PM...
Dawn Knickerbocker to be Commencement Speaker
Antioch College is pleased to announce Dawn Knickerbocker has been selected by the graduating class as the 2021 Commencement speaker.
Earth Day Talk: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Looking Back and Looking Ahead, an Earth Day talk by Dr. Kim Landsbergen, will provide overview of legacy of Trump-era environmental policy.
Faculty News
Film by Catalina Jordan Alvarez Screening for Ohio Shorts
Assistant Professor of Media Arts Catalina Jordan Alvarez’s short film Sound Spring Seq. #6: The School and the Home is streaming online as part of the 25th annual Wexner Center for the Arts Ohio Shorts film festival.
Earth Day Talk: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Looking Back and Looking Ahead, an Earth Day talk by Dr. Kim Landsbergen, will provide overview of legacy of Trump-era environmental policy.
Dr. Kevin McGruder on the Impact of Redlining
On Thursday, March 25, Associate Professor of History Dr. Kevin McGruder spoke as a panelist in the virtual seminar The Impact of Redlining on Black Americans: addressing racism in real estate, organized by Columbia University’s School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
From the President Emeritus: Lines of Thinking
“Lines of Thinking” is a monthly feature from College President Emeritus 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.
Poetry + Baseball = Haiku
Beyond the surging signs of spring, April is also national poetry month AND the beginning of baseball season. It’s a double header of the best sort.
Light, Fog, Fire: Ferlinghetti, Milosz, Ammons, Bashō, Komachi
At 101 Lawrence Ferlinghetti had outlived his era-mates by many years. That, it occurred to me, may have been bittersweet: the deepening saturation of truth and beauty “happily amid complexity and paradox” and the physical absence of those we write and make for.
Seeing Red: Williams, Sojun, Stevens
Poems that help us see red—these are what I delight in sending to you on a snow-blown afternoon from Yellow Springs.
FEATURED EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING STORIES
Antioch is the premier college for the applied liberal arts, where real-world work experience is fully integrated into the curriculum. The following student-written pieces are reflections from 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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Unravelling Traditions of Mayan Textiles in Chiapas, Mexicoby Addison Nace on May 3, 2021
About the Project San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico is an intertwining of international and local culture. And in this cultural fusion, I set out to explore the role of textiles for weavers while looking from my own lens as an outsider. My
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The Center of a Movement in the Middle of Nowhere: Ike Wylie ’22 at Camphill Copake in Copake, NYby Ike Wylie on October 10, 2020
In a valley that, if observed from up high, resembles a bowl- there is a village of twelve houses. They hold farmers, bakers, and candlemakers. These houses do not have televisions, pets, or microwaves. They sing and bless their meals. They are from Europe
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The Dream of a Future Farmer: Kaylee Rutherford ’23 at the Antioch Farmby Kaylee Rutherford on October 9, 2020
At the Antioch Farm, sustainability is of the utmost importance. Food forests and annual gardens spread across the vast fields towards the south end of the campus, where permaculture practices are explored and utilized to create a beautiful and bountiful environment. The food grown on
Alumni Achievements
Shane Creepingbear ’08 on Colonialism
Shane Creepingbear ’08 was interviewed by The Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York in a new podcast episode that focuses on Colonialism: Knowledge and Erasure. In the interview, hosted by Ember Kelley, Creepinbear speaks about his research and findings from looking into the topic of colonialism and provides answers to how we can confront colonialism as a community, and how we can become informed about colonialism in the justice work that we do.
Richard Hauck ’17 Accepted to Two Master’s Programs
After graduating with a self-designed major in Bachelor of Science: Ecology and the Human Environment with Spanish Language focus and earning magna cum laude, Richard Hauck ’17 has been accepted into two master’s programs at Arizona State University.
Michael Barnett ’66 Awarded Dwight Nicholson Medal
Michael Barnett ’66, a Senior Physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has been awarded the 2020 Dwight Nicholson Medal for Outreach by the American Physical Society (APS Physics) for a lifetime of innovations in outreach bringing the discoveries and searches of particle physicists and cosmologists to multitudes of students and lay people around the world.
Memoir by Judge LaDoris Cordell ’71
Judge LaDoris Cordell ’71 will release Her Honor: A Judge’s Candid Look at Our Legal System on October 5, 2021 — a memoir detailing Judge Cordell’s personal story and experiences with the American judicial system as jurist, lawyer, and police auditor.
In Memoriam
Dr. Leo Hughes Moir III ’62
Leo Hughes Moir III, known to most as Hughes, died on Sunday, April 4, 2021, at his home in Nederland, Colorado, about a year after a cancer diagnosis. He was 81. A husband, a father, a teacher, a storyteller, a musician, and a traveller, Hughes made...
Mary Jo Mueller ’73
Joplin, Missouri, lost an Art Wonder Woman on April 18, 2021, with the passing of Mary Jo Mueller. Jo was born at the old Freeman Hospital at 20th and Jackson, June 21, 1950. She graduated from Joplin High as co-valedictorian in June 1968. Her...
John Stephen Draper ’71
On March 29, 2021, John Stephen Draper, loving husband, father and grandfather, passed away suddenly and peacefully in his sleep at his home in Richfield Springs, NY. John was born on Aug. 20, 1948, in Memphis, Tennessee. He received his bachelor's...
Campus News
2021 Legacy Celebration Honorees Announced
The Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom at Antioch College (CSKC) will present awards to Mila Cooper and Chris Chavers ’21 during its annual Legacy Celebration which will be held virtually on Thursday, April 29, at 1 PM...
Community Gathers in Struggle and Hope
With the start of the spring quarter, the campus community engaged in a week of events emphasizing social justice and the necessity of community unity. In response to the murder of Daunte Wright, a Black man killed by a police officer on April 11,...
Dawn Knickerbocker to be Commencement Speaker
Antioch College is pleased to announce Dawn Knickerbocker has been selected by the graduating class as the 2021 Commencement speaker.
Richard Hauck ’17 Accepted to Two Master’s Programs
After graduating with a self-designed major in Bachelor of Science: Ecology and the Human Environment with Spanish Language focus and earning magna cum laude, Richard Hauck ’17 has been accepted into two master’s programs at Arizona State University.
Presidential Search Prospectus Published
The College's presidential search consultant, Academic Search, has published the search prospectus approved by the Presidential Search Committee and the Board of Trustees. The prospectus provides an overview of Antioch College, the leadership...
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