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Antioch College Achieves Fundraising Goal Through Generous Support
Successful “Antioch Activate” Campaign Keeps College Moving Forward Yellow Springs, Ohio 1-9-23 — Antioch College launched the “Antioch Activate” campaign in September of 2022 with a goal of raising $2.5M by December 31, 2022. Through a total of 1,413 generous...
Faculty News
Critical Race Theory Panel with Dr. Kevin McGruder
Associate Professor of History, Dr. Kevin McGruder, featured on Critical Race Theory panel discussion at the Columbus Metropolitan Club
Jewel Graham Oral History Interview with Professor McGruder
In 2014, Antioch College Professor of History Dr. Kevin McGruder spent a warm summer afternoon talking to Precious Jewel Freeman Graham—treasured member of the community, founder of Antioch’s social work program, advocate for Black students, and...
Dr. Jennifer Grubbs: Mourning the Present
In a guest blog for McGill-Queen’s University Press, enviro-feminist anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Anthropology Dr. Jennifer Grubbs directs our attention to the upcoming commemoration of the fourth anniversary of the murder of Heather...
STUDENT 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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Teaching Assistant at the Buen Dia Family School; Harris-Brewer ’25by Trinity Harris-Brewer on February 21, 2024
Working at Buen Dia has taught me the complexities of working as a teacher, childhood development, and the culture that San Francisco has to offer. When I first started working at Buen Dia I had some history of babysitting in my family, and while it
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Learning to return to the land: Yuri Whitley ‘26 at the Antioch Farmby Yuri Whitley on June 15, 2023
The Antioch farm is a small-scale farm that works to provide farm-to-table produce for our community. Our primary goal is to be able to have enough produce to feed all of the students and staff on campus continuously. Growing up in a small town surrounded
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Zootastic Life: Colin Ross ’26 at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Columbus, Ohioby Colin Ross on May 31, 2023
Growing up, my family would constantly take trips to the zoo. I would walk around holding hands with my sister as we observed the animals. Through the years, the zoo became a part of my life, being my first class field trip, where I volunteered
Alumni Achievements
A Buffalo Grazing: Sites for SOAR Eyes
On January 10th the “world” and 2022 will begin again as students return to campus! However some students DID stay over break to work on getting the Wellness Center (a truly upgraded version of the Old Gym and pool) ready and open for the public for the first...
Creative Collective founded by Conor Jameson ’21 at YS Porchfest
Conor Jameson ’21 graduated in June with a self-design major in Writing and Performance. She will perform as the frontwoman in the artistic collective !PUFF! during Yellow Springs Porchfest 2021
2021 Alumni Awards
The Alumni Association Board of Directors has announced the recipients for the 2021 awards bestowed by the Alumni Association. Nominations were received from the entire Antiochian community. The nominations were reviewed by the Alumni Board...
Michael Casselli ’87 Granted Tenure
The Board of Trustees enthusiastically voted to grant tenure to Michael Casselli ’87 and promote him to Associate Professor of Sculpture and Installation.
Campus News
Antiochiana – Songs from the Stacks: Gloom, Study, Grades Forgotten As Social Events Fill Holiday
Antiochiana - Songs from the Stacks Gloom, Study, Grades Forgotten As Social Events Fill Holiday Happy New Year, Antiochians! No aspect of American life escaped the impact of the Great Depression, especially the Christmas holiday. Life at Antioch College in the 1930s...
Antioch College Achieves Fundraising Goal Through Generous Support
Successful “Antioch Activate” Campaign Keeps College Moving Forward Yellow Springs, Ohio 1-9-23 — Antioch College launched the “Antioch Activate” campaign in September of 2022 with a goal of raising $2.5M by December 31, 2022. Through a total of 1,413 generous...
Antioch College Awarded Choose Ohio First Funds
Competitive Scholarship Funds of $495,000 Over Five Years to be Awarded Yellow Springs, Ohio 12-19-22 — Antioch College has been awarded $495,000 as part of the FY23 Choose Ohio First (COF) Program. Over the next five years, these competitive scholarship funds will be...
Antiochiana – Songs from the Stacks: Mary Mann to Nathaniel Peabody 16 & 27 Dec 1853
Horace Mann spent his first Christmas as president of Antioch College on the road. Mary Mann describes the celebration in a letter to her father back in Boston. The week before she sent Dr. Peabody a letter from his grandsons Benjamin Pickman Mann and George Combe...
Antiochiana – Songs from the Stacks: The Gannett Report
Antioch College’s long relationship with the Unitarian-Universalist Association actually predates Antioch College itself. There might not have ever been an Antioch at all had the Unitarian Association and the College’s founding denomination, the Christian Church,...
Upcoming Events
The Antioch School Scholarship Gala at the Foundry Theater
World House Choir – “Weather: Stand the Storm” at the Foundry Theater
Larry & Joe at the Foundry Theater
Marisa Anderson and Jim White at the Foundry Theater
Kristin Andreassen & Chris Eldridge at the Foundry Theater
In Memoriam
James Hobart ’58
James Hobart is a retired Unitarian Universalist minister and a veteran of the Selma Voting Rights Campaign who has worked tirelessly for civil and voting rights throughout his life. Rev. Hobart is 2001 Minister Emeritus of First Unitarian Society...
Thora Swirbul ’53
Thora Elizabeth Swirbul, age 91, died on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, at Hospice of Northwest Ohio. She was born April 5, 1931, in Danbury, CT to parents, Marcus Henry and Thora Elizabeth Sullivan. After growing up in Brightwaters, Long Island, New...
David Tabb’62
David Tabb died on January 27th at his home in Berkeley, surrounded by family. He was 83. Though Tabb's health had been declining since summer, his vitality, intelligence, and kindness never left him, and a cancer diagnosis just two weeks prior to...
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.
LoVerne Brown and Ed Ruscha
Two poems by LoVerne Brown, read by President Emeritus Manley between the ocean and the art of Ed Ruscha at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Travel Edition
May 15th is nearly upon us. If plans hold, on that day my family and I plus two dogs, a cat and six suitcases will depart from Washington, Dulles International, for a long trip to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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.