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Professor Emerita Gargi Roysircar-Sodowsky Co-Authors “Anti-Black Racism in Contemporary America”
Psychology has been elevating attention to racism and has the opportunity to counter the pervasive and damaging effects of racism. Gargi Roysircar-Sodowsky, Professor Emerita of the New England PsyD in Clinical Psychology program, has recently co-authored the book Anti-Black Racism in Contemporary America (Cognella Academic Publishing) with Sam Steen, Kaye W. Cole. Featuring chapters written by…
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Melding Creativity and Management
“As a teen, I wanted to be in a rock band,” says Daisy Salas, a student in the MA in Nonprofit Management at Antioch Online. Today, Salas is living that dream as the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the Los Angeles-based indie rock band Conductora. The band plays shows around Southern California and has…
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Antioch’s RMA Program Teaches Students to Address Complex Challenges in Changing Landscapes
The 21st century has been full of stark warnings about the reality and urgency of the climate emergency. While these can be scary and worrying, the moment is also full of opportunities for leaders to emerge who understand science, excel at communication, and can bring together experts from multiple fields to reach a common goal.…
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Antioch Expands Access With New Low-Residency Masters in Psychology Program
During the pandemic, many classes across Antioch shifted online. This could have resulted in a reduced learning experience, but in many cases it instead created opportunities for instructors and program administrators to reevaluate and rethink how education works—and what might be possible. One of the biggest and most hopeful developments at Antioch is the expansion…
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Students Embody Breadth of EdD’s New Multicultural and Antiracist Concentration
When the Doctor of Education (EdD) program at Antioch Online added a new Multicultural and Anti-Racist Education Specialization earlier this year, Michael Raffanti, the Dean of Antioch’s School of Education, was confident the program would attract the students for whom this specialization was a perfect fit. But he didn’t know that it would swiftly grow…
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Teacher and Student Publish Article on Family Violence, Post-Traumatic Growth, and Resilience
What are the root causes of family violence? And how can therapists and communities work to help families transcend adversity so that they are able to realize post-traumatic growth and resilience? These are some of the questions asked in a pathbreaking new article by Dr. Stephen Southern of Antioch Los Angeles and Raymond D. Sullivan…
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Continuing Education for a New Generation of Working Adults
Terry Ratcliff, Dean of the School of Distance and Extended Education at Antioch University, was recently elected as a Director at Large to the Board of Directors of the Association for Continuing Higher Education (ACHE). This is exciting news for both ACHE and for Antioch! Ratcliff believes that higher education, training, and lifelong learning are…
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With New Workbook, Martha Straus Helps Parents and Children Manage Big Emotions
“It’s part of our job description as parents to remain reasonable—to have access to a rational adult brain—when our kids start falling apart,” writes Dr. Martha Straus in her latest publication. But, she says, “It’s a job that appears to take a lifetime of practice to get better at.” That’s precisely why Straus, a Professor…
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Dr. Devona Stalnaker-Shofner Recipient of the 2021 NARACES Social Justice Award
When Dr. Devona Stalnaker-Shofner, EdD accepted the 2021 NARACES Social Justice Award at the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) conference on October 8th, she envisioned her accomplishment and her work as part of a lineage of many lifetimes of social justice work, activists and educators who came before her, and her ancestors. Stalnaker-Shofner…
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