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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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Antioch University Midwest and Antioch University Online Celebrate Commencement
Antioch University Midwest and Antioch University Online congratulate the graduating class of 2019! This year we had the honor of watching 68 students from five-degree programs walk across the stage and receive their diplomas. Provost and CEO, Dr. Marian Glancy gave encouraging words to our students, and our audience, along with remarks from our Chancellor…
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Michelle Thomas
Michelle Thomas will graduate from the Masters in Nonprofit Management (MANM) program at AULA in June 2019. One month away from finishing her program, she feels as though she’s going through an intense transformation, experiencing change and growth on both personal and professional levels. “This quarter has really been about excavating souls,” she said. “The…
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Mentoring: It is at the Heart of Training!
AUNE Professors have just learned that their article, Mentoring in clinical psychology programs: Broadening and deepening, has won the 2018 Award for Most Valuable Paper on Professional Development from The Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy. The journal’s award program highlights strong contributions to the field that were published during the previous year. This year, the article…
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