Welcome to this special history edition of the Antioch Alumni Magazine. It has been said that no business survives over the long term without reinventing itself—repeatedly. Over its long history, Antioch has certainly proven this true.
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.
Antioch Plans Affiliation With Otterbein to Create First-of-Its-Kind System
New national, nonprofit, university system will educate students for careers and to advance social justice, democracy, and the common good
Artist Page – Marietta Leis
“We need beauty. it helps us make sense of our world,” says the multidisciplinary artist Marietta Patricia Leis ’72, ’75 (Antioch Los Angeles, BA in Psychology, MA in Clinical Psychology).
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.
A Call For Dissent
Today, I want to call upon you to dissent. To engage in principled insubordination against injustice…
Antioch Invests in Environment and Community at Glover’s Ledge
Antioch’s teaching forest, Glover’s Ledge, sits on 81 acres of conserved land in Langdon, New Hampshire.
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.
Poachers Threaten Red Wolf Survival
“The current population is extremely small and vulnerable, and it only takes one poacher to kill a red wolf,” says Suzanne Agan ’20 (Antioch New England, PhD in Environmental Studies).
Advocating for Girls and Women with Autism
When Dana Waters got an autism diagnosis as an adult, she was nervous that it might change how her friends and colleagues perceived her.