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  Antioch College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Antioch College is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association, the Eco League, and the North American Alliance for Green Education.
Though financial problems remain with the college, in the early 2000s, Antioch trustees, administration and donors took up the "Plan for Antioch College," a multi-million dollar renewal commission which has altered the investment and marketing strategy for the college, as well as the basic structure of the curriculum.
Antioch College is a distinctive national liberal arts college which has recruited students from throughout the country since the 1920s and has played a major role in the development of cooperative education, community governance, and international education.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antioch_College   (1010 words)

  
 Antioch University Los Angeles - FAQ: Admissions, BA, MAE & TC, MAOM, MAP, MFA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Antioch University Los Angeles BA students find that these measures are very effective in resolving deficiencies in math and writing and helping them meet their academic and professional goals.
Antioch BA students who pursue the business concentration may also take selected MAOM courses while completing their undergraduate degree; Antioch gives credit for this work in both the undergraduate and graduate management programs, an advantage for students who choose to continue their studies at Antioch.
Antioch University Los Angeles graduates (and current students) are working in the field of education as teachers in elementary, middle, and high schools; community colleges; and universities.
www.antiochla.edu /faq.shtml   (4920 words)

  
 Member Colleges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Antioch is a coeducational liberal arts college offering interdisciplinary majors in the arts, sciences, humanities, and social sciences.
The College was founded in 1922 by the Sisters of Notre Dame and is located on a 53-acre campus in suburban South Euclid, 25 minutes east of downtown Cleveland.
Mount Union College admissions is on a rolling basis and requires the ACT/SAT test and high school transcripts for consideration for admission to the college.
www.ofic.org /members.htm   (4187 words)

  
 Antioch University McGregor -- News! -- Antioch Campuses Offer Relief to Displaced Students
Antioch College, a residential liberal arts institution in Yellow Springs, invites students displaced by Hurricane Katrina to enroll at no additional tuition cost beyond those of their home institution.
Antioch University Seattle, a degree completion (upper division of the undergraduate program) and graduate school in Seattle, Washington, invites students displaced by Hurricane Katrina to enroll at no additional tuition cost beyond that charged by their home institution.
Antioch University Seattle offers several graduate degree programs that may be of value to displaced students, some of them in a low-residency format that may permit significant portions of the work to be done online.
www.mcgregor.edu /about/news/katrina.html   (351 words)

  
 May Fourth Task Force - Robert H. Devine on Mumia Statement at Antioch
The selection of commencement speakers at Antioch College is done through a process of nomination and vote by the senior class.
Antioch College has always been allied with causes of peace and human dignity, and I don't believe that anyone at the College would condone violence or encourage violence against police officers.
Antioch College, like most institutions of higher education, seeks to develop in students the capacity for critical thought in confronting differences, in weighing the merits of what they listen to, read or experience, in reflecting on their encounters with the world and in seeking the truth.
dept.kent.edu /May4/30th/antioch_mumia.htm   (738 words)

  
 Colleges & Grad Schools - Joan Straumanis: President, Antioch College, Ohio
Historically, Antioch was the first college to grant equal degrees to men and women, in 1853.
Students are involved in the governance of the college; they are on the tenure committee as well as the budget committee, and the labor committee.
Antioch is at the top of the list when it comes to student engagement in the community.
www.educationupdate.com /archives/2002/mar02/htmls/coll_straumanis.html   (726 words)

  
 Second Nature | Education for Sustainability
During the 2000-2001 Fall semester, Antioch College established a council known as "GreenCil." This council was inspired by many ideas from the Ball State Greening the Campus II Conference.
Antioch College has been on the front line of most social movements in America for over one hundred years and the environmental movement is not about to pass us by.
Antioch College recognizes that establishing a dialogue that is both internal and external to the institution is critical for successful campus efforts.
www.secondnature.org /efs/profiles/profile_antioch.htm   (1719 words)

  
 Antioch University Santa Barbara - Message from Director of Admissions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Antioch University Santa Barbara is committed to the application of knowledge and ethics toward the betterment of the self, the workplace, our communities, our society, and ultimately our world.
Your time as an Antioch University student will be one of recognizing and pursuing your individual potential, discovering your ability to be an intelligent and humane social agent, and developing the tools for personal and professional success.
Antioch's first president, Horace Mann, founded the American public school system, and captured the very essence of the Antioch spirit in 1853 when he said:
www.antiochsb.edu /admissions/admissions_director.html   (288 words)

  
 Xlibris.Com Bookstore
Antioch’s interdisciplinary approach to the social sciences at mid-century was remarkable.
These six contributors came together on October 24, 2003 at Antioch College as representatives of the post World War II period when Antioch was a nebula that fashioned intellectual, cultural, and political stars.
Whatever the achievements of the contributors, and they are large, all of them would agree that their luster matters most if they inspire this and future generations of college students and their teachers to dare to hope that they may have some victory for humanity to write about fifty years hence.
www2.xlibris.com /coursesincourage   (692 words)

  
 Yellow Springs News Online
As president, Lawry will be responsible for continuing to implement the Antioch renewal plan, in which the college is overhauling its curriculum and rearranging the co-op program, and for raising money for the institution.
Antioch formed a committee of Antioch University board members, college faculty and staff and other administrators in the Antioch system to select the new president.
Calling Antioch “a vitally important liberal arts college that has been a center of experimentation and innovation in American higher education since its founding,” Lawry said he is excited about “supporting the educational goals of students who are drawn to Antioch College.”
www.ysnews.com /stories/2005/04/040705_newantiochpres.html   (1021 words)

  
 Contact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This spring Antioch received a five-year, $3 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to create the early college high schools, which blend the last two years of high school with the first two years of college.
Antioch's work is part of a national initiative to launch 70 early college high schools over five years, beginning fall 2002.
Horace Mann, noted abolitionist and first president of Antioch College, gave a charge to the class of 1859 that is repeated to each Antioch graduating class: "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
www.earlycolleges.org /Media/AntiochPR091202.html   (515 words)

  
 Antioch articles on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Antioch is the trade center for a region where grains, cotton, grapes, olives, and vegetables are grown.
Antioch College ANTIOCH COLLEGE [Antioch College] at Yellow Springs, Ohio; coeducational; chartered 1852, opened 1853.
Jacobite Church JACOBITE CHURCH [Jacobite Church], Christian church of Syria, Iraq, and India, recognizing the Syrian Orthodox patriarch of Antioch as its spiritual head, regarded by Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox as heretical.
www.encyclopedia.com /articles/00594.html   (423 words)

  
 Yellow Springs News Online
King came to Antioch as a music and education major, and her mentor was music professor Walter Anderson, according to Joan Horn, who wrote a biography on Anderson.
At Antioch, King had co-op jobs waiting tables at the Antioch Inn, as a camp counselor, as a settlement house worker in Cleveland, as a library assistant and as a student teacher, she later wrote.
In her commencement address, King spoke of her disappointment with Antioch when, as the first African-American to qualify for student teaching in the Yellow Springs schools, she was denied a position.
www.ysnews.com /stories/2006/02/020906_king.html   (1629 words)

  
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His father had survived the Civil War, had recently graduated from Antioch College, and according to a census was teaching in YellowSprings while his mother was running a boarding house.
JED I taught at Antioch for a few years, and in 1899 he also served as Antioch College's football coach.
Antioch College, which began operation in the 1850's with Horace Mann as the first College President, finally decided in 1906 to confer degrees on Dr. JE Dale I (Joe - BS) and his wife Lily (BA) during the College's 49th Commencement proceedings.
www.usigs.org /memorial_tribute/mt-d/dale-je.html   (919 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Radical U: Antioch by James Alan Winter
If you're looking for a  private liberal arts college to send your post-adolescent child,  your family is wealthy, its politics falls within the loopy Left, and the to-be-matriculated is completely unsuitable for work in the real world, consider Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Antioch College understands.  The mission statement lays bare Antioch's raison d'etre: to “challenge (the students’) values and perspectives… and as a result change their perspective… to empower others.”  The Antioch honor code is “dedicated…to the pursuit of social justice,” a left-wing code word for Marxist agitation.  And Antioch lives up to its rhetoric.
Antioch’s post-modernist proclivities can peculiarly manifest.  In 1994, the college established a code of conduct that required a male student to ask explicit permission of his female conspirator at every stage of a possible sexual encounter, from initial contact to intercourse.  One sociologist estimated that up to 150 inquiries spiced such a seduction.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7895   (565 words)

  
 Antioch College's ideals lasted King a lifetime
She was still in high school in Marion, Ala., when her older sister, Edythe, headed to Antioch College in the fall of 1943.
Edythe, who had first visited Antioch as a member of her high school chorus, was the first recipient of a new scholarship aimed at integrating the all-white school in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Even after she left Antioch for Boston to pursue a musical career at the New England Conservatory, King continued to keep in touch with her mentors at the Ohio school.
www.oxfordpress.com /business/content/shared/news/nation/stories/2006/02/KING_ANTIOCH_0207_COX.html   (1339 words)

  
 Antioch College Honors Martin Sheen
Actor, activist, and Dayton, Ohio native Martin Sheen was honored by Antioch College on Friday, August 31, in an informal ceremony on the steps of historic Antioch Hall.
In a resolution adopted by Antiochs Board of Trustees, Sheen was cited for his commitment to protesting the death penalty, American aid to El Salvador, human rights abuses in Latin America, the condition of farm workers in California, the Gulf War, homelessness, and destructive environmental policies and practices.
He was further recognized as a humanitarian who has demonstrated a lifetime of dedication to the values and ideals shared by Antioch College and many of its students while in pursuit of a successful acting career spanning 42 years.
execprivilege.tripod.com /id101.html   (356 words)

  
 Guest Comment
Their purpose was to protest Antioch College, which was honoring convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal at its commencement.
Franck was guilty of treason against Antioch’s official ideology again at graduation, where he had previously been selected to be one of a number of students making remarks.
Antioch College is an insular world in which professors preach a cartoon Marxism that is parroted by students and affirmed by classmates.
www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment050400f.html   (1681 words)

  
 Antiochiana: The Historical Home Page of Antioch
They named the school after the Syrian city of Antioch where, according to the Bible, the disciples of Jesus were first known as "Christians." To learn more, read R.L. Straker's A Brief Sketch of Antioch College: 1853-1921.
In 1983, the Trustees of Antioch University designated the Olive Kettering Library as the official overseer of the Antioch archives, with authority to develop policies for retention and housing of University documents and historical materials.
The centerpieces of Antiochiana's collections are the papers of Antioch College's two most dynamic past presidents, Horace Mann and Arthur Morgan, and the extensive Bahnsen negative collection.
antiochiana.antioch.edu   (210 words)

  
 Antioch University Los Angeles - Undergraduate BA Completion Program | Graduate MA & MFA Degrees
Antioch's B.A. completion program is now offering an education to students that celebrates urban life by studying the people of the city; the systems that support, exploit, and frustrate them; the environment that sustains them; and the arts that reflect their diverse experience.
Antioch College was founded in 1852 in Yellow Springs, Ohio by a dreamer who wanted to make the world a better place and wasn't afraid to take some risks in trying.
Since the university-wide administration is located on the historic Antioch College campus in Yellow Springs, Ohio, all of the Antioch University campuses, including Antioch University Los Angeles and Antioch University Santa Barbara are accredited by the North Central Association, the accrediting association for that region.
www.antiochla.edu   (1431 words)

  
 Horace Mann
Antioch's early curriculum was unique in the middle of the 19th century: it emphasized the sciences as well as the classics--a major departure, it introduced discussion into the classroom, and it even offered a rudimentary form of independent study.
Of more modern interest is the educational implementation of Mann's social commitments which led Antioch to be the first college in the country to educate women as equals to male students studying the same curriculum.
Mann's social commitment also led Antioch to be one of the first colleges in the country to recruit and educate fl students as equals to white students.
www.phd.antioch.edu /Pages/horacemann   (866 words)

  
 A History of The Antioch Review
When in 1940 a small group of Antioch College faculty met to discuss the founding of a review, they were faced with a world where fascism and communism were on the march and they sought to establish a political forum from which the voice of liberalism could be heard.
The Antioch Review has always avoided narrow academic debates and tried to suggest that although professors may be for the academy, their commentaries can bear on larger social and intellectual processes.
Its finances were tested again when the college's subsidy was withdrawn briefly, and from 1979 to the present there has been improvement with the establishment of an endowment and the expansion of pages.
review.antioch.edu /hist.html   (1858 words)

  
 The Cincinnati Post - Coretta Scott King left mark at Ohio college
Antioch President Steven Lawry said Antioch is committed to racial justice and equality and had been recruiting fl students in an effort to diversify the student body when King enrolled.
Antioch was fertile ground for thinking and discussion of civil rights and other social issues.
Antioch feeds off of Yellow Springs, a liberal-leaning, throwback-to-the-60s village where tank tops, sandals and T-shirts emblazoned with the likes of Bob Dylan are common attire.
news.cincypost.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060208/NEWS01/602080350   (693 words)

  
 College Toolkit: College Profile for Antioch College - News
Adam Czachorski of St. Charles, Antioch College Scholarship, Texas A and M Corps of Cadets Scholarship and Valparaiso University Scholarship.
Antioch College’s much-derided guidelines on asking permission to kiss and touch are not very different from The English Gentlewoman (1631) and the many...
A native of Philadelphia and graduate of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Fajans was known for "Three Sets of Twelve," a three-story mural celebrating...
www.collegetoolkit.com /Colleges/News/201007.aspx   (387 words)

  
 History of Antioch Publishing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In exchange for janitorial work and as a part of the Antioch College program of work and study, they used the shop's press after hours to print decorative bookplates on strips of waste paper.
Antioch continued to expand in 1985 with the purchase of the Holes-Webway photo album company.
Antioch Publishing is now the arm of The Antioch Company which continues the tradition of providing quality, variety and beauty in book accessories, gift and stationery products.
www.antioch.com /about_history.html   (328 words)

  
 Antioch College. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Horace Mann, Antioch’s first president, envisioned a program stressing the development not only of the intellect but of the whole personality, especially the individual’s social conscience and competence.
The college has several experimental and research centers and maintains its own foreign study program.
Antioch College is now part of the larger Antioch Univ. (1978), which includes Antioch New England, Antioch Southern California, Antioch Seattle, and the McGregor School.
www.bartleby.com /65/an/AntiocCo.html   (173 words)

  
 Antioch Bible College
Antioch Bible College was founded on the principle of the Great Commission as recorded in the Gospel of Matthew:
Antioch Bible Ministries does not place any hold on the student after Graduation and Ordination.
It is not the intent of Antioch Bible Ministries to build our own Kingdom, but to extend the Kingdom of God.
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