On Antioch University’s New England campus, behind a parking lot, just down the road from a gas station, a medium-size garden is tucked away. It’s comprised of several raised beds, flowers planted around the perimeter, and a few picnic tables under some trees, where students can often be found between classes.
Mario Burton, a 2024 graduate of Antioch’s PhD in Leadership and Change, has published his dissertation entitled Developing More Equitable and Critically Conscious Organizations: Testimonios and Critical Platicas with Black and Latino/x LGBTQ+ Male CHRD Leaders Authors.
“There’s a sense of fear that teachers have about getting their kids to think critically, or really challenge the narratives that are the common tropes that we hear, that aren’t actually true,” says Heather Cheney.
Each year, the Minority Fellowship Program awards $20,000 fellowships to roughly 40 doctoral and graduate students from around the country with the aim of increasing diversity in the counseling practice. This year, three of those fellowships went to students from the PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision based out of Antioch University’s Seattle campus.
The PsyD programs based on Antioch’s New England and Seattle campuses sent six faculty and one student to the midwinter conference of the National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology (NCSPP), the premier conference for professional psychological training programs. The conference was held on January 15-18 in Denver, Colorado. In a special honor, third-year doctoral student Emerald Ralston was one of only six student delegates chosen to attend the conference nationwide.
In 2017, Dawn Murray, a Professor in the Environmental Studies Department and Director of the BS in Environmental Studies, Sustainability, and Sciences, traveled to the Kingdom of Bhutan by invitation from the Monpa people to collaborate with them to document the knowledge of their last community healer, Ap Tawla. Ap Tawla, who was in his 80s, feared that his death would mark the extinction of much of the Monpa people’s collective wisdom, which like a braid reaching back in time, connects them with their ancestors.
Antioch University has revamped its three Environmental Studies graduate degrees in order to expand access and make it easier for students to complete these degrees with Antioch University.
When I was eleven years old, my paternal grandmother took me to the supermarket to buy a push-up bra, a rotisserie chicken, and introduce me to my culture—my “birthright” as she called it.
She said to me, “Now that you’re older, Gracie m’dear, people are going to start caring about what you have to say about our people. People are going to start asking you questions. It’s important to me that you don’t get it wrong.”
This month marks 54 years since the first Earth Day, but the message that we must value and protect our planet has never been more important. Here at Antioch University, one of the ways we are contributing to the broader Earth Month is by collecting nine of the most powerful and inspiring stories we shared this last year about the Antiochians working to address important environmental problems around the globe.