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  • Alumna Shines Light on the Influence of Latinx Women’s Identities in Leadership

    Alumna Shines Light on the Influence of Latinx Women’s Identities in Leadership

    Director of Health Information Management Services for UCLA Health System and PhD in Leadership and Change alumna Dr. Maria Caban Alizondo has published her dissertation entitled, Dialogic Identity Construction: The Influence of Latinx Women’s Identities in their Health Information Management Practice. The study examines the experiences of Latinx women leaders in health information management in the United States…

  • New Alumna Dissertation Highlights Impact of Pandemic Era Video Communication

    New Alumna Dissertation Highlights Impact of Pandemic Era Video Communication

    President of Bridging the Difference, LLC, and PhD in Leadership and Change alumna Dr. Betty Johnson has just published her dissertation entitled, Video Meetings in a Pandemic Era: Emotional Exhaustion, Stressors, and Coping.  This exploratory mixed-methods study aims to address, in part, the scientific knowledge gap regarding video meetings as a source of emotional labor. This…

  • Examining Higher Education’s Immunity to Change | Dissertation Watch

    Examining Higher Education’s Immunity to Change | Dissertation Watch

    Director and Principal Consultant at the Education Advisory Board (EAB) in Washington, DC. and PhD in Leadership and Change alum Dr. Brittany Motley has published her dissertation entitled, Higher Education’s Immunity to Change: Understanding How Leaders Make Meaning of Their Student Success Landscape.  The research looks into equity in higher education with the goal of providing…

  • Fostering Resilience in Your Nonprofit Organization

    Fostering Resilience in Your Nonprofit Organization

    By definition, resilience is the ability to recover, adjust, and bounce back quickly from difficulties. It’s an invaluable quality to possess in a position of nonprofit leadership, and one that will help both you and your staff to successfully progress and avoid burnout.  Each and every organization is composed of individuals with unique personalities and…

  • Film Fare

    Film Fare

    Antioch University Los Angeles BA in Liberal Studies, Psychology Concentration student Peter Ehrenfried’s 4-minute film “Surfridge” is our feature story for this issue of Psychology Spotlight. “Surfridge” (you can watch the video here) was Peter’s final project for the course “Documentary Film & The American Psyche” taught by Charley Lang. We sat down with Peter to…

  • In Memoriam: Remembrances of Elizabeth Ann Courtney Pratt  

    In Memoriam: Remembrances of Elizabeth Ann Courtney Pratt  

    Susan weber June 7, 1932 – January 1, 2021 Ann was a member of the ‘great generation’. Hers was not the first who brought Anthroposophy to the North American continent, but the generation who took it up and made it their lives’ work, creating, spiritually striving, as the seeds of change began to germinate farther…

  • New Alumna Dissertation Examines the Transformative Role of Religious Leadership in Response to Racism and Social Injustice

    New Alumna Dissertation Examines the Transformative Role of Religious Leadership in Response to Racism and Social Injustice

    Artist, Social Activist, and PhD in Leadership and Change alumna Dr. Shandell Maxwell has published her dissertation entitled, Religious Racial Socialization: The Approach of a Black Pastor at an Historic Black Baptist Church in Orange County, California.

  • Fostering Racial Justice and Transformative Change, GSLC Launches Certificate Programs

    Fostering Racial Justice and Transformative Change, GSLC Launches Certificate Programs

    From ongoing racial oppression to a changing climate and an uncertain economy, today’s challenges are requiring leaders in all walks of life to put in the work to improve themselves and their organizations. Into this need, Antioch’s Graduate School of Leadership and Change (GSLC) is launching two new certificate programs. One is a certificate in…

  • PhD in Leadership and Change Announces New Scholarship Fund for International Students

    PhD in Leadership and Change Announces New Scholarship Fund for International Students

    Antioch University’s Graduate School of Leadership and Change (GSLC) is extremely pleased to announce the founding of a new scholarship fund to support doctoral students in the PhD in Leadership and Change (PhDLC) program. The Joanne E. McLean Scholarship for Leadership has been established by GSLC alumnus Dr. David McLean to honor the legacy of…