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Chancellor’s Statement After the Atlanta Massacre
Dear Antioch faculty, staff and students, Yet again racism and hatred have taken lives. I was heartbroken and angered by the horrific events in Atlanta this week that took eight innocent lives, six of them Asian American women. These attacks appear to be rooted in a mix of racism and gender violence. Asian American and…
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Women Leading Change: Panel Discussion
Antioch University Santa Barbara’s Undergraduate Studies program hosted a discussion in honor of International Women’s Day on Friday, March 12th entitled “Women Leading Change.” Esteemed panelists included former Senator Hannah Beth Jackson, Dr. Anna Everett, Ms. Anna Steffens, Ms. Julissa Pena and moderator Dr. Lois Philips, a seasoned strategic consultant and producer of a YouTube…
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Standing In Solidarity with Asian and Asian-American Students, Staff, and Faculty at AUSB
Dear Antioch Community, As Campus Provost and member of the newly formed Antioch University Anti-Racism Task Force, I am writing about the most recent mass shooting in Georgia on Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Tragically, eight people were killed, six of whom were Asian women. I write with an acknowledgment of the deeply disturbing nature of…
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Student Publishes Article on Research of Microplastic Content in Reptiles in Paraguay
Cullen Mackenzie, a first-year MS in Environmental Studies Conservative Biology student, had a paper accepted for publication in the highly-respected tropical ecology journal Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment (NNFE). His article, “Preliminary Study and First Evidence of Presence of Microplastics in Terrestrial Herpetofauna from Southwestern Paraguay,” arose from a tropical field internship where he…
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Alum Publishes Story about Asian Erasure
In “Whitewashing of Asian students and a report that launched a reckoning,” MA in Education alum Kristin Leong wrote about the fury the North Thurston Public School district sparked after grouping Asian and white students together because their test scores are roughly the same. Students of color—not including Asians—were a separate category. The message was clear:…
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Charlene Hayes Joins Board of Governors
Charlene Moore Hayes joined the Antioch University Board of Governors in October 2020. She brings years of experience in human resources and has joined both the Compensation Committee and the Governance Committee of the Board. Charlene was interviewed for Common Thread in March. Q: What about Antioch University do you find most compelling and intriguing?…
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Love of Living Beings Leads to Environmental Activism and Education
As a child, Dawn Murray walked the beaches of Santa Barbara after big storms looking for kelp holdfasts that had washed up on the sand. When she found one, she would search the bundle of slimy kelp to check for sea creatures that had ridden in with them and were now stranded on the inhospitable,…
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Reforming City Planning from the Intersection of Art, Activism, and Community
Tom Borrup lives in an apartment in the tower of a vast, converted 1920’s Sears building on East Lake Street in Minneapolis. Over the last decade this urban aerie has provided a home and office for him to write articles and books about planning and placemaking, to consult with cities and nonprofit arts organizations. In…
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An Interview with UEE Alum CJ Goulding
From Antioch University Seattle’s MA in Education with Urban Environmental Education (UEE) Program’s Alumni Journal. I am the Manager of the Community Leadership Development Program with the Children and Nature Network. I helped run the Fresh Tracks program bringing Native Alaskan and LA youth together for leadership training. I was recognized by NAAEE as one of 30…
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