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Celebrating 40 Years in Santa Barbara
At Antioch University Santa Barbara, we strive to prepare students for professional success and service to their communities. We focus on developing students of all ages and backgrounds into leaders and critical thinkers who solve the challenges we face today as a society. In 2017, we celebrated 40-years of being a Santa Barbara institution and part of a dynamic and diverse community.
Antioch University Santa Barbara is a private, not-for-profit institution accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. We’re proud to have had continuous accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission since 1927.
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The MFA in Writing & Contemporary Media Program hosted a conversation with award-winning writer and producer Felicia D. Henderson. After beginning her writing career in sitcoms like Family Matters, Moesha, The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, and Sister, Sister; Henderson turned her attention to television drama writing and received three NAACP Best Drama Awards for Soul […]
Chair of the MFA in Writing & Contemporary Media Program Ross Brown was featured on TV Santa Barbara for the show The Creative Community 2.0 with David Starkey. Ross talks about his long career as a screenwriter and educator. He shares stories from his auspicious beginnings as a production assistant at an advertising agency (he […]
Antioch University Santa Barbara (AUSB) recently received a $5000 grant from Wells Fargo, the first in a series of grants sought to support the “Keep Locals, Local” Initiative. AUSB will award scholarships to two high school students who had participated in the Pathway to Effective Access to College (PEAC) program while attending high school in […]
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Student and Alumni Stories
Coleen Goodson recently completed her Antioch Online BA and delved straight into the low-residency MFA in Writing & Contemporary Media at Antioch Santa Barbara. She took a moment from her busy schedule as a full-time working and family woman to detail her victories this past term and tell us more about how she was invited […]
Missouri native Emily Johnson earned her undergraduate degree with the idea she’d make an impact in the nonprofit arts world. Instead, she bought a one-way ticket to India—a choice that led her to pursue her MBA in Social Entrepreneurship and Strategic Leadership at Antioch University Santa Barbara. “I needed time to figure out how to […]
Recent AUSB grad with a BA in Liberal Arts, Business and Entrepreneurship, Maja Jonson, used her Capstone project as an opportunity to create an awareness campaign around local and global homelessness issues and the potential of affordable housing as a solution. It took some time to narrow in on her topic and approach to the […]