Higher Education Section :: Page 38

• 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.

• Keep watching the skies!

  By Aaron ZaremskyAugust 7, 2010

  

  Pat Craig of Wright State organized a stargazing event last Friday night in the Golf Course.

• 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.

• Vindicated local grad Shirley Sherrod pioneered land trusts adopted here

  By Megan BachmanJuly 24, 2010

  

  Before rural farming and land trust crusader Shirley Miller Sherrod was thrust into the national spotlight when she was forced to resign this week from her position at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), she studied at Antioch University Midwest in Yellow Springs.

• 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.

• Art exhibit kicks off Glen 50th celebration

  By Diane ChiddisterJuly 3, 2010

  

  A well-attended exhibit of original art created by artists inspired by the Glen kicked off the Glen’s weekend celebration of its 50th anniversary on Friday evening.

• Bequest boosts town/gown unity

  By Diane ChiddisterJune 24, 2010

  

  A $3 million bequest from the estate of longtime Antioch College faculty member Nolan Miller and his brother Richard Miller will enable Antioch College to financially support its students who wish to work in nonprofit organizations in Yellow Springs…