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• Antioch announces 2019 commencement speaker

  By YS News StaffJune 2, 2019

  

  Antioch College has announced that Shannon TL Isom, president and CEO of YWCA Dayton, will be the guest speaker at the school’s 2019 commencement ceremony, Saturday, June 22. 

• SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING

  By YS News StaffMay 23, 2019

  

  Council will hold a SPECIAL MEETING on Friday, May. 24 at 9 a.m.

• Water the focus of ‘Earth Week’ at Antioch College

  By Megan BachmanApril 22, 2019

  

  A series of Earth Day-related events on the Antioch College campus next week invites the entire community to “Wade In” on environmental justice, particularly in relationship to water.

• Antioch College—Progress made after protest

  By Megan BachmanMarch 28, 2019

  

  Over the last two weeks, some Antioch College students have not been attending  class to show support for student demands to change the way sexual offenses and incidents of racial discrimination are handled at the college.

• Antioch College—Students seek SOPP reform

  By Megan BachmanMarch 21, 2019

  

  Earlier this week on the Antioch College campus, students, faculty, administrators and trustees engaged in negotiations around the implementation of two campus policies.

• Food, clothing drive at Antioch to feature speakers

  By YS News StaffFebruary 19, 2019

  

  The People’s Congress of Resistance, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and Antioch College’s newly founded, first-ever Black Student Union will hold a clothing and food drive on Friday, Feb. 22, beginning at 5 p.m. at the Coretta Scott King Center. The collection event will feature two speakers.

• WYSO to separate from Antioch

  By Megan BachmanJanuary 31, 2019

  

  Local radio station 91.3 FM-WYSO will no longer be owned by Antioch College but instead will become an independent nonprofit, according to college and station leaders this week.

• Wright State faculty goes on strike

  By Gary McBride

  

  As of 8 a.m., Jan. 22, the Wright State University faculty represented by the American Association of University Professors, or AAUP, went on strike as planned, picketing at the campus entrances, despite the 17 degrees Fahrenheit temperature and brisk winds.

• Antioch College steps up diversity, inclusion

  By Diane ChiddisterJanuary 10, 2019

  

  The reality of a relatively robust percentage of students from diverse backgrounds living together on a small campus can make for a uniquely challenging college experience, according to Antioch leaders. And those leaders, including faculty, staff and students, are aiming to help students address those challenges.

• A partnership for Wilberforce and Antioch

  By Megan BachmanOctober 4, 2018

  

  Antioch College and Wilberforce University are both small, private liberal arts colleges in Greene County. They were both founded in the 1850s. And in recent years they’ve both been trying to bounce back from financial and accreditation woes.