Six voices come together to share an oral history of the early days of Antioch’s Santa Barbara campus.
With Launch of Coalition for the Common Good, Antioch and Otterbein Chart a Shared Future
A new, national, mission-oriented university system is taking shape.
Becoming a National University: Rediscovering Stories From Antioch’s Great Expansion
Between 1964 and 1975, Antioch grew from having one campus in Yellow Springs, Ohio to having more than forty separate campuses, centers, clusters, and circuits spread across the United States and beyond.
50 Years in the City of Angels
A half-century after helping open Antioch’s Los Angeles campus, Al Erdynast is still looking forward to what comes next.
Two Decades of Leadership and Change
“Would it be possible to create a low-residency doctoral program?” The idea was enticing. It would allow leaders from all across the country and internationally to enroll, studying at a distance and then gathering four times a year for in-person residencies.
Bringing Antioch to New England
As the 1960s began, Antioch College was one thing only: a small liberal-arts college with a single campus founded in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1852. But some of the faculty had larger ambitions…
The FBI’s Plot to Discredit Antioch
In the late ’60s, J. Edgar Hoover signed off on a plan to infiltrate Antioch University, spy on its alumni, and use this intel to discredit Antioch in the eyes of the public. A decade later, documents describing this plot came to Antioch’s president—only to end up hidden deep in an archive.
A Portfolio of Early Antioch Images
Antioch University was established in 1852 in Yellow Springs, Ohio. From the start it has worked to live up to its founding principles of equity and social justice. Originally serving solely undergraduates, until 1978 it was known as Antioch College.
Online-Only Extra: Looking Back as a Librarian
When I started my position as a librarian in early 2020, I didn’t know much about the history of Antioch University.
Sherwood Guernsey on Antioch’s Radical Approach to Law School
In 1971, Sherwood Guernsey had just finished a Peace Corps stint in rural Panama…
Providing a Second Chance: An Oral History of Antioch’s Philadelphia Campus
Like many Antioch students, Laura Speight-Reddick ’80 (Antioch Philadelphia, BA) realized a little late that she was not only interested in a college education but also capable of doing the work…
JOHN DOE: HOW ANTIOCH PREPARED THE X CO-FOUNDER TO MAKE PUNK ROCK HISTORY
When the California quartet X released its first album in 1980, it upended everyone’s assumptions about punk rock. The twin lead vocals from a man and a woman weren’t in…