Graduate School of Leadership and Change

Seeking Faculty Members with Passion for Degrees of Purpose

Home Employment at Antioch University Seeking Faculty Members with Passion for Degrees of Purpose

A Unique School with Unique Programs

Antioch University is an integrated national system with campuses in four states as well as a set of virtual and low-residency divisions, of which the Graduate School of Leadership and Change is one. Antioch University provides learner-centered education to empower students with the knowledge and skills to lead meaningful lives and to advance social, economic, and environmental justice.

Antioch aspires to be a leading university offering learners and communities transformative education in a global context that fosters innovation and inspires social action.


Get to Know our Learning Community 

PhD Viewbook

Dive in and learn more about the PhD in Leadership and Change program at Antioch University by discovering our viewbook.

Seed Field Podcast

Antioch University’s award-winning podcast includes episodes featuring our faculty exploring a variety of themes.

Common Thread

Highlighting the unique perspectives and people of GSLC through stories, features, and interviews with faculty, students, and alumni.

Learn about Faculty

Learn more from some of our faculty in the One Good Point… series or explore all our faculty.

Alumni Dissertations

Learn more about the PhD Program in Leadership and Change Dissertation Award Winners and explore their dissertations.

Students Share What the GSLC Program Means to Them


Additional Resources

Holloway, E. & Alexandre, L. (2012)

Crossing Boundaries in Doctoral Education: Relational Learning, Cohort Communities, and
Dissertation Committees

Wergin, J. & Alexandre, L. (2016)

Differentiation and Integration: Managing the Paradox in Doctoral Education

Position Description

Antioch University’s Graduate School of Leadership and Change (GSLC) seeks two passionate senior scholar-practitioners whose research and practice engages highly motivated learners in robust cross sector inquiry into the thorny issues of our times. We are open to a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds with preferred respective areas included but not limited to the following: critical race, gender, and leadership studies, inclusive leadership, change management, organizational learning and development. In addition, preferred sector areas of practice include health care, mental health, youth leadership, international and national governmental organizations, nonprofit and profit leadership, and education. The successful candidates will join our extraordinary mission-driven interdisciplinary faculty team in the training of emerging scholar-practitioners as active public intellectuals in their sectors and professions.  

The GSLC’s highly successful PhD in Leadership and Change (PhDLC) enters its 22nd year with over 350 alumni and 150 active learners, an 80% graduation rate, and a highly diverse, productive and innovative faculty team and student body. The PhDLC is a forerunner in providing low-residency, cohort-structured, competency-based (not course-based) education that serve experienced practitioners in a wide array of sectors and professions. The program’s outcomes-based hybrid curriculum delivery model blends face-to-face residencies with uniquely designed virtual pedagogies and technologies to support a dynamic, geographically dispersed and networked learning community. Our model addresses the knowledge and capabilities scholars need to conduct bold research that can have positive impacts on leading change for equitable and sustainable futures in organizations and communities around the globe. 

Successful applicants must have: a doctorate in an area related to our interdisciplinary curriculum serving students from diverse professional contexts including; experience in health care, mental health, youth leadership, international and national governmental organizations, nonprofit and profit leadership, and education; an established record of  research and practice equivalent to level of Full Professor; substantial experience advising doctoral students and chairing dissertations; experience teaching a broad range of research methods; comfort with and interest in utilizing academic technologies for innovative teaching and learning; and a lively spirit of academic experimentation and entrepreneurship and a belief in the power of education to “win victories for humanity.”