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  • Kate O’Neill: Education Without Barriers

    Kate O’Neill: Education Without Barriers

    Dr. Kate O’Neill, an Associate Professor of Management at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul (AUAF) and a 2011 graduate of Antioch’s PhD in Leadership and Change program, lives in a world where there are no boundaries or limitations. O’Neill grew up in a family where instead of bedtime stories, her mother read her…

  • Alumna Receives Highest Public Relations Honor

    Alumna Receives Highest Public Relations Honor

    President of Rhoda Weiss Consulting Group, Inc., Dr. Rhoda Weiss is the recipient of The Public Relations Society of America’s (PRSA) 2019 Gold Anvil Award. This award is the highest individual honor recognizing lifetime achievement from PRSA, the nation’s leading professional organization serving the communications community with 30,000 members. Those pictured presenting the award are…

  • AUS Counseling Department Sponsors and Presents at the National ACES Conference

    AUS Counseling Department Sponsors and Presents at the National ACES Conference

    The Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) is the premier organization dedicated to quality education and supervision of counselors in all work settings. ACES members are counselors, supervisors, graduate students, and faculty members who strive to improve the education and supervision of counselors in training and in practice. The AUS Counseling Department sponsored and faculty…

  • MFT Faculty and students present research poster at National Conference

    MFT Faculty and students present research poster at National Conference

    Dr. Denzel Jones, Marriage & Family Therapy (MFT) Assistant Professor, along with Pia Alexander and Amelia Flynn, second-year MA MFT students, presented their research at the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) Annual Conference November 20 – 23 in Fort Worth Texas. The Impact of Socialization Agents’ Ethnic-Racial Identity on Communication and Socialization Processes focuses…

  • The Next Chapter: Celebrating Six Years with Antioch’s Librarian Ken Pienkos

    The Next Chapter: Celebrating Six Years with Antioch’s Librarian Ken Pienkos

    The first time I met Ken Pienkos, Antioch’s librarian, I complimented his shoes. In the midst of the mayhem of my first residency, I’d found unexpected solace in his joyful pacing up and down the aisles of the computer lab. I wanted to thank him for it, but didn’t know how. Like the dot at…

  • Rasheena Fountain Featured on KBCS Broadcast

    Rasheena Fountain Featured on KBCS Broadcast

    Rasheena Fountain, an alumna of the Urban Environmental Education program was recently featured in a KBCS interview titled “More Than One Kind of Nature,” which discusses what shapes our view of the environment and our relationship with it. Rasheena is a freelance writer, MFA candidate, and pre-doctoral instructor at the University of Washington whose goal…

  • Antioch University Santa Barbara Introduces “Keep Locals Local” Initiative

    Antioch University Santa Barbara Introduces “Keep Locals Local” Initiative

    Antioch University Santa Barbara (AUSB) recently received a $5000 grant from Wells Fargo, the first in a series of grants sought to support the “Keep Locals, Local” Initiative. AUSB will award scholarships to two high school students who had participated in the Pathway to Effective Access to College (PEAC) program while attending high school in…

  • Perseverance, not Perfection

    Perseverance, not Perfection

    tammy cloutier Hard to believe four years have passed while working for Antioch’s Virtual Writing Center. I learned a great deal from staff, fellow tutors, and students, but perhaps the biggest lesson has been letting go of some of my perfectionist tendencies. Perfectionism has always been an issue, resulting from an internal push rather than…

  • Alumna Dissertation Explores the Effectiveness of Social and Digital Media Communications

    Alumna Dissertation Explores the Effectiveness of Social and Digital Media Communications

    PhD in Leadership and Change alumna and Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs at ECMC Group, Iris Cumberbatch has just published her dissertation entitled, Exploring the Effectiveness of Social and Digital Media Communications on Organization-Public Relationship Building with Employees. The study acknowledges the increasing use of social and digital media channels to interact with a…