News Archive
HLC Reaffirms College’s Accreditation
The Higher Learning Commission has reaffirmed the College’s accreditation after routine review at the midpoint in Antioch’s accreditation cycle.
Gabby Loomis-Amrhein ’17 Debut Book Release
Gabby Loomis-Amrhein ’17 has had her first book, evening primroses, a book of poetry, published by Recenter Press.
Explorations Through Co-op: Jen Ruud ’18
Although Jen Ruud ’18 majored in Environmental Science at Antioch, their Co-ops provided opportunities for exploration in different fields.
Board Moves to Affirm Tenure
The Antioch College Board of Trustees has voted to approve a faculty proposal, advanced last spring, to convert all existing faculty positions to tenure track appointments. With this move, all previously contingent members of our current small...
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.
Catalina Alvarez and Liz Flyntz ’02 Leading Spring Guest Workshop
April 7 – May 5, 2021, Assistant Professor of Media Arts Catalina Jordan Alvarez and Liz Flyntz ’02 (artist, curator, writer and digital experience designer) will be leading a guest workshop, “The Collaboration Agreement: Designing for Creative Conflict and Consent” at The School of Making Thinking, which will consist of five workshop sessions taught on Wednesdays from 7-9pm EST.
Interview with Poet and Writer Anna (Coates) Scotti ’80
Anna (Coates) Scotti ‘80 is a widely published writer and poet, born in Washington DC, who was awarded the first-ever Lightscatter Prize for her collection of poetry, Bewildered by All This Broken Sky, which is set to release in April 2021.
Organizing Her Voice Rises: Faculty Spotlight on Luisa Bieri
Her Voice Rises; a transnational arts exchange between Antioch College and Mujeres de Artes Tomar (MAT) was an arts residency three years in the making, spearheaded by Yellow Springs-native and Associate Professor of Cooperative Education Luisa Bieri.
Comments on Margaret Fuller’s Conversations
Beginning in 1839, both as a way to edify women with little access to higher education and as a source of revenue, Margaret Fuller began to hold her now famous “conversations.”
Joan Argetsinger Steitz ’63 Awarded Wolf Prize in Medicine
The Wolf Prize in medicine was awarded to three scientists—Lynne Maquat, Adrian Krainer, and Joan Steitz ’63—on February 9, 2021, whose research in messenger RNA (mRNA) enabled the development of the COVID-19 vaccines.