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Training Educators for the Future: New Antioch Fellowship with Teton Science Schools Makes the World a Classroom
Antioch University’s New England campus is giving its master’s education students a unique opportunity to take their learning outside the classroom. Teton Science Schools (TSS) students already benefit from a partnership with AUNE’s Environmental Studies and Education programs, and a new fellowship with TSS takes Place-Based Education training into the great outdoors, said Paul Bocko,…
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Mary Sutton
Mary Sutton, activist and 2016 alumna of the MA in Urban Sustainability program has dabbled in a variety of careers from bus driver to graphic designer. Today, she is running her own non-profit Collective Remake, a social enterprise that supports the creation of worker-owned businesses and other kinds of cooperatives with people who have been “incarcerated…
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Bringing Psychology to the People of Haiti Earns an Award for Psychotherapy with Women
Gargi Roysircar, Professor Emerita, and Ashland Thompson, 5th year PsyD candidate on predoctoral internship at APA-approved Central Regional Hospital, Butner, NC, have won the 2019 Psychotherapy with Women Award of the Society for the Psychology of Women, Division 35 of APA for their paper, Trauma Coping of Mothers and Children Among the Poor in Haiti:…
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Slye Named First Latinx President of the Seattle Council PTSA
Manuela Slye, a member of the School of Education’s Committee of Community Advisors (CCA), was recently elected as the first ever Latinx president of the Seattle Council PTSA, which represents more than 80 PTAs and PTSAs in Seattle Public Schools. Slye is the founder and director of Cometa Playschool and is an early childhood educator and a…
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Our dreams are not only our own: Dr. George Bermudez brings groups together for collective healing and understanding
Dreams that take over our minds while we are sleeping reveal a great deal about us as individuals, but they are also about the society that we are living in, according to psychologists like MA in Clinical Psychology faculty George Bermudez. Since summer 2011, Bermudez has been organizing groups to share their dreams in what are…
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Alumni Reminisce About MFA Chair Steve Heller’s Mentorship As He Retires
Word travels swiftly through the alumni channels of AULA’s low residency MFA in Creative Writing. Far-flung writers who rarely, if ever, engage together in person, we are nonetheless communicators whose favorite pastimes include such sport as report, recall, reflect, recount, respond. So when word came down the pike of MFA Professor and Chair Steve Heller’s…
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Harriet L. Schwartz
Understanding what factors create powerful teaching and learning relationships is at the heart of Dr. Harriet L. Schwartz’s work. She was already examining this as she applied for her doctorate at Antioch University’s Leadership and Change program. By the time she’d graduated, Dr. Schwartz was faculty and her inquiry had evolved with her—she had shifted…
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MAEd Students Present Capstone Projects
Master of Arts in Education (MAEd) students gathered on Thursday evening, along with faculty members, family, friends, and classmates, to present their Capstone Inquiry Projects. For these projects, students conduct original, on-the-ground research over the course of three quarters and their presentations were therefore the culmination of hundreds of hours of hard work and perseverance. Students’ topics represented a…
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MFA Alumna and Faculty Member Publishes an Essay in the “New York Times”
Gayle Brandeis recently published a powerful piece in the New York Times called What to Say (and Not to Say) to Someone Grieving a Suicide. Brandeis is an acclaimed author and poet and an alumna of the MFA in Creative Writing Program. Her memoir, The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother’s Suicide, is a memoir of…
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