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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...
Faculty News
Dr. Kevin McGruder to Host New Series on WYSO
“Loud As The Rolling Sea” is a new series starting this week on WYSO that will be hosted by Vice President of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of History, Dr. Kevin McGruder.
Teaching a Year into the Pandemic
A plan to bring students back to campus this year meant creating remote and hybrid course options to accommodate a safe learning environment. Staff, faculty, and students adjusted accordingly to move forward.
VPAA Announced for Next Academic Year
On Friday, May 28, the Antioch College Board of Trustees appointed Dr. David C. Kammler as the next Vice President for Academic Affairs (VPAA). Dr. Kammler will begin as VPAA on July 1, 2021 when current VPAA Dr. Kevin McGruder returns to the faculty...
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
Shane Creepingbear ’08 Appointed Dean of Admissions
Shane Creepingbear '08, a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, has been appointed Dean of Admissions, making him the first Native American to hold this critical position. Shane is somewhat of a household name around the table for generations of...
Taking a Stand Cost Cody Luedtke ’08 a Job
University of Georgia System fires instructor and lab coordinator Cody Mullins Luedtke ’08 for refusing to teach in a classroom without a mask mandate.
Alumni Rally to the College, 2005 Grad Appointed Board Chair
On Friday, August 27, the Antioch College Board of Trustees elected Shelby Chestnut ’05 as Chair. Chestnut a mixed race Assiniboine and Norweign, queer and trans community organizer who serves as the Director of Policy and Programs at the Transgender...
Iris Olson ’17 Addresses Lack of Oversight in Sex Toy Industry
Iris Olson ’17 is a reproductive health professional whose recent work includes an op-ed addressing policy and lack of oversight in the sex toy industry.
Campus News
Antiochiana – Songs from the Stacks: The Antioch College Meteorite Story
No one can say with any certainty when or how inspiration will strike. The inspiration for this particular Songs From The Stacks came from a researcher who contacted Antiochiana about a visitor from space that came to campus in 1901, but not that kind of visitor from...
A Buffalo Grazing: Golden Moments in Time
It is heading to mid-September in Southwest Ohio and Ohio is starting to preview its’ coming attractions. A drive through the gently undulating countryside down Dayton-Yellow Springs Road and to the Antioch College Campus provides clues that Yellow Springs’ golden...
Antiochiana – Songs from the Stacks: Critic At Large
Earle Reynolds (1910-1998) grew up in show business, the son of trapeze artists. Despite a passion for the theater that never left him, he became an academic instead of an acrobat. He studied Anthropology at the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin....
michael casselli ’87 Appointed Director of the Herndon Gallery
Antioch is pleased to announce that Arts faculty member michael casselli '87 has been appointed Director of the Herndon Gallery. As a tenured faculty member, he continues to offer innovative arts courses and serve as Division Chair, now with reassigned time devoted to...
Getting to the Root Workshops
Getting to the Root 2-Day Intensive Workshop on Racial Justice April 26th & 27th, 9am - 4pm each day The Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom at Antioch College, in partnership with H.U.M.A.N. and the Getting to the...
Upcoming Events
The Valerie A. Blackwell-Truitt Community Dance and Performance Arts Concert and Art Exhibition at the Foundry Theater
The Valerie A. Blackwell-Truitt Community Dance and Performance Arts Concert and Art Exhibition at the Foundry Theater
Eclipse 2024 – Stay at Antioch College!
The Faux Paws at the Foundry Theater
The Antioch School Scholarship Gala at the Foundry Theater
In Memoriam
Rascha Hall ’62
Rascha Faga Labovitz Hall was born in Rochester, NY in 1940. She was the oldest child of Anne and Nathan Labovitz and had two younger brothers, Mordechai Labovitz and Jacque Labovitz. Rascha met her husband David at the young age of 17 in her first...
Jaquelyn Zevin ’55
Emily Schuder Chasse ’76
Emily Schuder Chasse, devoted wife and beloved mother and Grandmother, passed away peacefully on February 3, 2023. Emily was born on June 10, 1953 to Charles and Ann Schuder. She grew up alongside her sister and brothers, skipping through the...
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.
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.
A Quickish Story, Rimbaud, Wright (Again)
One of my most satisfying interludes with poetry involved “wrapping” an entire 65,000-square-foot building in a poem by Arthur Rimbaud.