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  • Andrew Parsons Receives Teacher of the Year Award

    Andrew Parsons Receives Teacher of the Year Award

    Andrew Parsons, an alum of the AUS School of Education’s Alternative Route to Teacher Certification (ARTC) Program, received the “Teacher of the Year” award at Park Orchard Elementary School in the Kent School District for the 2019-2020 school year. The recipient of this award is recognized as an outstanding teacher by fellow staff, parents, and students.…

  • Antioch EE alum celebrates forest schools in new book

    Antioch EE alum celebrates forest schools in new book

    Since before she came to AUNE, Environmental Education alum Caylin Gans has been writing about forest schools. Built on the idea that experiences in nature are inherently challenging, humbling, and educational, forest schools allow children freedom to explore and play freely outdoors, to discover themselves and build connections with each other and with the natural…

  • Antioch Bird Club is hosting its 2nd Big Year

    Antioch Bird Club is hosting its 2nd Big Year

      Calling all birders, bird-enthusiasts, and bird-feeder watchers! From January 1 through December 31, 2020, the Antioch Bird Club will be collecting bird sightings from the Antioch Community! In a classic Big Year of birding, ABC wants to find as many species of birds as possible in a calendar year. Previously, they hosted their 2018…

  • Alumnus Dissertation Shares Profound Findings on the Impact of Police Officer Trauma

    Alumnus Dissertation Shares Profound Findings on the Impact of Police Officer Trauma

    PhD in Leadership and Change alumnus Dr. John Littlewolf has published his dissertation entitled, Police Officer Trauma in Rural Minnesota: A Narrative Study. As a current law enforcement officer and researcher, this is an insider-study. Dr. Littlewolf began his law enforcement career in 2009 and has served three tribal law enforcement agencies in Minnesota. In…

  • William Hafford: Finding Connection through Adventure Therapy

    William Hafford: Finding Connection through Adventure Therapy

    At the center of William Hafford’s life has always been Maine. At a young age, he moved from cities and military bases to the free-ranged sprawling greenery of the eastern state. The New England landscape imprinted on Hafford immediately. These days Hafford has a PsyD in clinical psychology from Antioch University and works in adventure…

  • Mindful Leadership: Dr. Laura Santana

    Mindful Leadership: Dr. Laura Santana

    For Dr. Laura Santana, an important aspect of effective leadership is cultivating a mind-body connection to bring a whole person to the demands of leadership. Santana, whose more than 30-year leadership career has a global reach —  including her current role as a senior leadership solutions partner at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)—first discovered…

  • Caroline Ailanthus: Antioch graduate blends fact and fiction to create post-apocalyptic novel

    Caroline Ailanthus: Antioch graduate blends fact and fiction to create post-apocalyptic novel

    Growing up surrounded by a family and community of writers, Caroline Ailanthus began writing and taking her craft seriously at an early age. “My parents are both writers, storytellers, and avid readers, as are most of their friends, so it simply felt natural to engage with words in one way or another,” Ailanthus says. As…

  • Center for Diversity and Social Justice Gets Up and Running

    Center for Diversity and Social Justice Gets Up and Running

    The Clinical Psychology Department’s Center for Diversity and Social Justice (DSJ) announced its new, team-based structure at the beginning of the spring 2020 semester. The leadership structure will include Kate Evarts Rice, Dean Hammer, Karen Meteyer, Monique Bowen, and Vince Pignatiello. The five groups supported by the DSJ this semester include the Affinity Group for…

  • Dr. Marti Straus Has Really Been Busy

    Dr. Marti Straus Has Really Been Busy

    See this list of great things Dr. Straus has been doing! Consulting to schools through supervision and training and testimony to the state legislature on developing trauma-informed responses to student behavior in Vermont. Finishing edits to the third edition of The Lost Art of Listening, adding sections and chapters addressing both the impact of technology…