Business is always about profit. That’s the bottom line. Unless you’re talking about Ken Baker’s class, “Strategy, Innovation, and Resilience,”—then it’s time to think bigger. This class doesn’t have one bottom line, but three. “The triple bottom line is not about regular ‘business as usual,’” explains Baker. “It’s about taking a more holistic approach, where we talk about people, the planet, and profits.” This framework is changing how students conceptualize what it means to be successful.
Between 2015 and 2019, there was an almost 20% national loss in the number of full-time school librarians.
This trend represents an ongoing evolution in the structure and capacity of schools, and one of the few groups researching this change is Antioch University’s SLIDE project: ”School Library Investigation – Decline or Evolution?”
When MaiLinh Hartz, a master’s student in the Couple and Family Therapy program, was younger, people often said she had an old soul. “I was very introspective and had time to listen and absorb people’s stories and emotions,” she explains. It’s a common narrative heard among people who work in the mental health field that they were always, in some way, drawn to care. As a student, she is expanding what it means to take care of others—not just as a therapist, but as a peer.
When Reyna Grande walked into this year’s Texas Book Festival, she was greeted with hugs and exclamations. Everywhere she went, someone was excited to see her. People knew who she was.
This wasn’t the case ten years ago. “When my first book came out,” she says, “I was the new kid on the block. No one knew who I was.” For Grande, an alum of Antioch’s MFA in Creative Writing who now teaches in that same program, all it has taken is sixteen years of hard work, building relationships, and publishing numerous books to claim her space in the writing world.
The Bruce and Arlene Crandall Social Courage Award is a scholarship established by Antioch Board Member Steve Crandall. It celebrates the life and legacy of both his parents, both of whom were exceptionally courageous people in their own right.
Early in the month of October, the Los Angeles home of MFA alum Consuelo G. Flores becomes an explosion of boxes and bins, ornate paper flowers, and bolts of colorful fabric. This is when her busy time begins. The artist, writer, and advocate will spend the following weeks preparing to build altars for Day of the Dead celebrations—a practice she began as a teenager.
Growing up in Los Angeles, Yolanda Davis-Overstreet ’18 (Antioch Los Angeles, MA in Urban Sustainability) spent the ubiquitous sunny afternoons of her childhood pedaling up and down city sidewalks.
With establishment of Social Courage Award, Steve Crandall builds on his family’s legacy of service and study.
When Victoria Chang started as the Poetry Editor for The New York Times Magazine this year, the first thing she did doesn’t sound very poetic—she made a spreadsheet.
Antioch’s Seed Field Podcast has won a Bronze Circle of Excellence Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, in recognition of its excellence. This award, given to…
When Jennifer Hylton was a student at an all-girls school in Jamaica in the 1960’s, she was a ringleader, bringing people together and listening to everyone’s problems. At the same…
This February, Antioch received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities that will support the creation and delivery of a new series of four free-to-attend classes for low-income…