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• Founders Day events celebrate Antioch College

  By Diane ChiddisterOctober 13, 2010

  

  Antioch College invites the community to join in the Founders Day celebration this weekend, Oct. 15–16, to celebrate the college’s revival.

• Antioch College presidential finalist believes in turning collaborative visions into reality

  By Diane ChiddisterOctober 8, 2010

  

  Mark Roosevelt, the finalist for the job of president of Antioch College, will visit Yellow Springs next week. Roosevelt spoke with the News on Thursday, Oct. 7, about his interest in the job and his experience.

• One year in, college is primed for students

  By Diane ChiddisterOctober 7, 2010

  On a recent tour to recruit new students, Antioch College Admissions Director Kristen Pett found that the revived college, set to open its doors to students next fall, has plenty of well-wishers.

• Antioch College presidential candidate to visit

  By Diane ChiddisterOctober 6, 2010

  

  Mark Roosevelt, a finalist for the position of Antioch College president, will visit the Antioch campus next Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 13–14, to meet with the college and Yellow Springs communities.

• College hosts talk on governance

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 19, 2010

  

  Antioch College is sponsoring a forum on college community governance on Friday, Aug. 20, at 7 p.m. at the Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom at One Morgan Place.

• Antioch alum presents theater workshop, Oedipus Rex

  By Megan BachmanAugust 12, 2010

  

  Antioch alum Mark Greenfield returns to Yellow Springs to host a workshop on putting on theater productions in outdoor and non-traditional venues and to stage his rendition of “Oedipus Rex” in the Antioch amphitheater.

• College receives $1.5M bequest

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 29, 2010

  Antioch College became the recipient of a $1.5 million bequest last week from alumnus Bernard West, who attended the college from 1932–33. The gift is part of a total $17 million in funds the college has raised since it gained its independence from Antioch University last September, college communications director Gariot Louima said last week.

• Helping to shape a new college

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  Gariot Louima never intended to live in Ohio. In fact, he’d never been to Ohio before coming to interview for the position of director of communications at the newly-revived Antioch College. When he told his sister, who like him had grown up in the Haitian community in Miami, Florida, about the interview, she asked him if there were any black people in the state.

• College honors Freedom Summer

  By Diane ChiddisterJuly 22, 2010

  

  Reflecting the historic Antioch College emphasis on social justice, the revived Antioch College is sponsoring a series of events this summer focusing on the civil rights movement, especially Freedom Summer in 1964.

• Antioch College to receive $1.5 million bequest

  By Megan BachmanJuly 21, 2010

  

  A $1.5 million bequest to Antioch College from alumnus Bernard A. West was announced today by the college in a press release.