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  • Your Chance to Read the Spring 2019 PsyD Newsletter

    Your Chance to Read the Spring 2019 PsyD Newsletter

    Our Spring 2019 PsyD Newsletter is now available to the general public online, here! This quarter’s edition includes a faculty profile, a list of spring community meetings, a list of student internship and pre-internship placements, a student presentation schedule for the 2019 American Psychological Association Convention, a list of PsyD student research and interest groups,…

  • Teaching Community Engagement and Encouraging Unapologetic Self-Care
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    Teaching Community Engagement and Encouraging Unapologetic Self-Care

    Three years after Yolande “Falami” Devoe earned her master’s in educational leadership from Antioch University Midwest, she suffered two mini-strokes. “I started on a self-care trek as a result of my health issues that continued and expanded,” she said. “I had been juggling school, work, and family. I was beginning to understand the importance of…

  • Nicola Smith-Kea: Giving Voice to Those Who Need One

    Nicola Smith-Kea: Giving Voice to Those Who Need One

    Growing up in Jamaica in a culture in which she remembers as a child that, “women should be seen and not heard,” she now works to ensure that their voice is being heard as they journey to become leaders. A student in the Antioch University Graduate School of Leadership and Change, completing her PhD in…

  • Antioch Alums in “Washington Post” Article on Keene Amphibian Crossing

    Antioch Alums in “Washington Post” Article on Keene Amphibian Crossing

    “This amphibian crossing brigade training program began at Antioch University New England with Environmental Studies alum David Moon.” Sarah Wilson said about an article printed in the Washington Post on May 14th. She and Brett Thelen, science director of Harris Center for Conservation Education in Hancock, N.H. (also Antioch alums), are quoted in the piece. It begins: Wood frogs lie…

  • Dance/Movement Therapy Program Receives ADTA Accreditation Renewal

    Dance/Movement Therapy Program Receives ADTA Accreditation Renewal

    The Committee on Approval for the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) has approved Antioch’s renewal application for Six-Year Approval, which deems the program in compliance with the ADTA standards for education and clinical training for the period of 2019-2025. The Application was submitted by Dr. Tomoyo Kawano, Program Director of the Dance/Movement Therapy program (DMT)…

  • Elizabeth Wing

    Elizabeth Wing

    Elizabeth Wing graduated from the Education Certificate/Master program in 1995. She is currently a 3rd-grade teacher at Carnation Elementary in Carnation, Washington. Wing has been teaching for sixteen years and has been nominated twice for teacher of the year. She is the 2018 Patsy Collins Award Winner for Excellence in Education, Environment, and Community; and…

  • Presentation on Marine Permaculture and Reversing Climate Change with Dr. Brian von Herzen of the Climate Foundation
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    Presentation on Marine Permaculture and Reversing Climate Change with Dr. Brian von Herzen of the Climate Foundation

    A weekend event, May-31-June 1, presented by Antioch University Santa Barbara’s Undergraduate Studies Department in conjunction with Santa Barbara Permaculture included a Friday lecture and a Saturday Workshop with Dr. Brian von Herzen, Executive Director of the Climate Foundation. Dr. von Herzen has been studying the decline of ocean ecosystems for more than a decade. He…

  • “The New Woman’s Survival Catalog” (1973) to be Re-Published

    “The New Woman’s Survival Catalog” (1973) to be Re-Published

    The New Woman’s Survival Catalog by Undergraduate Studies Co-Chair Dr. Kirsten Grimstad and co-author Susan Rennie will be published this fall (2019) in a facsimile edition by Primary Information, a publisher specializing in artist’s books. Originally compiled and published in 1973, The New Woman’s Survival Catalog was a “woman-made” catalog modeled after the well-known Whole…

  • A VERY Productive Sabbatical for Dr. Marti Straus

    A VERY Productive Sabbatical for Dr. Marti Straus

    Marti Straus, PhD, has recently returned from a very productive sabbatical. She has landed not one, but two book contracts during this time. The first is a workbook currently titled In It Together: The CO-Regulation Workbook for Traumatized Kids and their Caring Adults (she is writing this with the help of her research assistant, 4th…