A University in Pursuit of a Better World

Dr. Torin Finser, PhD, of Antioch University New England is sharing his expertise with educators around the world to commemorate 100 years of Waldorf Education and look to the future. 2019 marks the 100-year anniversary of the founding of Waldorf Education. Also called Steiner Schools, institutions subscribing to Waldorf principles follow a rigorous and fluid […]

Antioch University Santa Barbara’s Undergraduate Studies Department co-hosted a two-day community event on campus, in partnership with the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network. Millions of acres of land have been contaminated by pesticides, improperly handled chemicals, dirty energy projects, toxic waste, and other pollutants in the United States and Canada. “Our environmental studies students who attended […]

In March 2019, 12 students from the Antioch University Seattle Masters in Art Therapy, Counseling, and Couple and Family programs traveled to Southeast Asia to experience immersive, advanced coursework and training in Cambodia. The Cambodia course, co-led and co-taught by AUS teaching faculty, Alyssa Griskiewicz, and Jessica Leith, was based in Phnom Penh and rooted […]

Antioch University Los Angeles’ Education Department is honored to announce Christopher Paul Curtis as the recipient of the 2019 the Horace Mann Upstanders Book Award for The Journey of Little Charlie. The Horace Mann Upstanders Award honors children’s literature that best exemplifies the ideals of social action and in turn encourages young readers to become […]

Dave Lucas, Ohio’s Poet Laureate, visited Antioch University Midwest reading his poetry and writing. Following the reading, Lucas answered audience questions and shared his ideas of poetry being democratic and natural. He said that often the words we say can be poetic —that poetry doesn’t necessarily need to be lofty, that it is found in the ordinary and […]

Alistair McCartney, author of the 2017 book The Disintegrations, recently attended an awards ceremony at the New School in New York City to receive the Publishing Triangle’s 2018 Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction. At the ceremony, McCartney thanked his colleagues at AULA for all of their “human and creative support.” He also gave a reading [...]