May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and it serves as a time to celebrate and reflect on the culture, history, achievements, and continued work of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. Here at Antioch University, we take this time both to recognize the contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and to remember past injustices that our Federal, state, and local governments have perpetrated against these communities.
Sally M. Johnstone has spent her career improving the quality, accessibility, and affordability of post-secondary education for adults. She helped design and launch Western Governors University, which uses an innovative, competency-based education model that allows adult students to take advantage of the knowledge they already have to decrease the time it takes them to earn a degree.
Antioch University has lost a dear friend and colleague. Marva Cosby, an alum of our Midwest campus who served on the Antioch University Midwest Board of Trustees and later on…
This Women’s History Month, we want to highlight ten Antiochian women who, in their own way, are advocating for equity, diversity, and inclusion. Read profiles of the Chair of Antioch’s Board of Governors, a student bringing sex therapy to her Japanese-American community, a writer excavating her past, a documentary filmmaker helping others tell their stories, an educator empowering students, a therapist working on the problem of Black maternal mortality, a dean passionate about reaching underserved populations, and a mobility activist fighting for safer streets.
Antioch has hired Stephanie Helms Pickett to be its first ever Head of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging. This key position answers directly to the Chancellor, is a member of…
Rachel Kunert-Graf, PhD, Writing Support Faculty at Antioch University’s Seattle campus, has a publication in Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society. She reviews a new collection, Jewish Women…
Antioch University and Otterbein University celebrated this year’s National Day of Racial Healing by holding Racial Healing Circles from morning to evening. This event, held on January 16, was sponsored…
We asked some of our most visionary alumni, students, faculty, staff, and board members to think about the years and decades to come—and to tell us how they see Antioch University and its alumni contributing. These are their answers.
When Carole Isom-Barnes took the job of Chair of Antioch University’s Board of Governors, she brought with her a career’s worth of insight and passion.
As we wrap up a year of forward-looking changes here at Antioch, I am delighted to introduce the sixth annual Antioch Alumni Magazine, “The Future Issue.” In these pages you…
A new, national, mission-oriented university system is taking shape.
This summer, in the center of the main gallery of the Center for Social Justice & Civil Liberties in Riverside, California, there stood a giant assembled artwork: a bouquet of wood with sticks, diverse colored beads, ropes, and dowels of different sizes sticking out in all directions, all topped off by a barrel that represented the hull of a ship, filled with a few dozen dried, carefully decorated palm fronds. An intricate assemblage full of story and suffering.