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YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – March 10, 2011 –   The Future of Education series, a collaboration between Antioch College and the Yellow Springs Schools, continues on Saturday, March 12, with a presentation by Adam Howard, a Colby College associate professor of education and former Antioch associate dean of faculty.

Prior to joining the faculty at Colby, Howard taught at Hanover College, Lesley University Graduate School of Education, and Antioch College. At Antioch he was also a co-op professor, director of teacher education and associate dean of faculty.

Prior to teaching at the college level, Howard taught high school English and history at Cincinnati Country Day School and directed Summerbridge Cincinnati Inc., a nonprofit organization designed to provide academic support to disadvantaged middle school students while encouraging high school and college students to consider a teaching career path.

Howard has published numerous articles and papers on social class issues in education, privilege, service-learning, and curriculum theory. He is co-editor (with Hongyu Wang, Oklahoma State University) of the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, an interdisciplinary journal of curriculum studies. He chairs the Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice and is a member of the board of directors of the Corporation for Curriculum Research. He is co-editor (with Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández) of Educating Elites: Class Privilege and Educational Advantage and author of Learning Privilege: Lessons of Power and Identity in Affluent Schooling.

The series has featured MacArthur Genius Award winner Deborah Meier '66, Collegiate Institute assistant principal Shadia Alvarez '96, Miami University's associate vice president for academic affairs, Michael E. Dantley, and Antioch College President Mark Roosevelt.

The Future of Education, a partnership between the Morgan Fellows at Antioch College and the Yellow Springs schools to stimulate new and innovative thinking about the future of education in Yellow Springs. The series is a major component of the Class of 2020 Initiative, a process to create a strategic plan for the public schools.

Below is the schedule of remaining events.

Saturday, March 12, 3:00-5:00 p.m. –  Adam Howard
An associate professor of education at Colby College, Howard focuses his research on the educational impact of class and privilege, and on the concerns of gay and lesbian youth. His books include Educating Elites: Class Privilege and Educational Advantage, and Learning Privilege: Lessons of Power and Identity in Affluent Schooling. His articles have appeared in the journals Education Leadership, Democracy and Education, High School Journal, and the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy.
Location: Herndon Gallery, South Hall, Antioch College

Tuesday, March 22, 7:00-9:00 p.m. – Matt Fischer
Matt Fischer spent the first 21 years of his career creating award-winning campaigns for blue chip brands like AT&T, Amtrak, Time Magazine, Starbucks, Kraft and General Foods. Six years ago, persuaded by long-time friend, Greg Livingston, he decided to join WonderGroup in Cincinnati, where he and Livingston worked closely together to grow WonderGroup in size and stature with clients like Cincinnati Bell, Perfetti Van Melle's Airheads and Mentos, Kellogg's, Luxottica, Walt Disney Resorts, Topps, Evenflo, Heifer International, Dean Foods and more.
Location: Herndon Gallery, South Hall, Antioch College

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Gariot P. Louima ?
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YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – March 9, 2011 – Historian Barbara Slaner Winslow, an Antioch College trustee, will discuss the role of Antioch College alumnae in the launching of the second wave of the women’s movement at 7 p.m., Friday, March 18, in the Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom at Antioch College.

Several Antiochian women were important figures in the civil rights and women’s moments. These include feminist Coretta Scott King; noted sociologist Cynthis Fuchs Epstein; the award-winning independent filmmaker and Yellow Springer Julia Reichert; Congressional Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton; women’s self-health activist Lolly Hirsch; Karen Folger Jacobs, founder of the San Francisco Women’s Center; socialist author Linda Jane Jeness; Elaine Lytel, founder of Syracuse NOW; and Antioch women’s studies professor and sociologist Marjory Nelson.

Winslow, a 1968 graduate of the College, brings her expertise in women’s history to bear on the discussion of the key roles these women played in this important and radical social movement that changed America. Currently a professor of women's studies in the School of Education at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Winslow is also a founder and director of the Shirley Chisholm Project of Brooklyn Women's Activism. She received her Ph.D. in women's history from the University of Washington, where she helped found Radical Women and Women’s Liberation Seattle.

Winslow is the author of a major scholarly book on the famous British feminist and pacifist Sylvia Pankhurst titled Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism and has written numerous articles about women's political participation, including “Clio in the Classroom: US Women's History.” She is completing “A History of the Women's Liberation Movement in Seattle, Washington.”

In addition to serving on Antioch College’s Board Pro Tempore, Winslow is a member of the Board of the North Star Fund, a progressive foundation funding grass roots organizations in New York City, and the Center for Defense Information Advisory Board.

Her talk is organized in collaboration with the Morgan Fellows at Antioch College. For more information contact Anne Bohlen at abohlen@antiochcollege.org

MEDIA CONTACT:
Gariot P. Louima ?
Director of Communications
Office: 937-319-6131
Mobile: 937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – March 9, 2010 – Antiochian Coretta Scott King is one of eleven women to be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame for making valuable and enduring contributions to our nation. King and the ten other women will be formally inducted on September 30 and October 1 in Seneca Falls, the birthplace of the American Women’s Rights Movement.

The National Women’s Hall of Fame is the nation’s oldest membership organization recognizing the achievements of great American women. Inductees are selected every two years based on their lasting contributions to society through the arts, athletics, business, education, government, humanities, philanthropy and science. From a group of over 200 completed nominations, a national panel of judges conducted a rigorous scoring process and selected eleven women for Induction.

One of the most celebrated champions of human and civil rights, Coretta Scott King, in partnership with her husband, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., ignited democracy movements worldwide. For more than forty years, she traveled extensively as a messenger of peace, justice and social action. Notably, in 1974, she formed and co-chaired the National Committee for Full Employment, formed the Coalition of Conscience (1983), and co-convened the Soviet-American Women’s Summit (1990). In 1969, she became the founding president, chair and chief executive officer of The King Center, the first institution built in memory of an African American leader. As a lifelong advocate for non-violence and coalition building, King’s legacy will continue to serve as an example for years to come.

King enrolled at Antioch College in 1945 as part of the college’s Interracial Education Scholarship program, which had recruited her sister, Edythe, two years earlier. Though she left the College in 1949, she remained connected to her alma mater, returning in 1965 when her husband delivered the commencement address, and again in 1967 to receive the baccalaureate degree that she should have received in 1951. She delivered the commencement address in 1982 and in 2004 accepted the Horace Mann Award from the Alumni Association for her determination to promote nonviolent social change. In 2005, she honored the College by allowing it to use her name on a Center for Cultural and Intellectual and Freedom. The Coretta Scott King Center opened on March 27, 2007.

The National Women’s Hall of Fame 2011 Inductees include the late jazz vocalist Billie Holiday; Lilly Ledbetter, who lobbied for equal pay for men and women (her efforts proved successful when President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law in 2009); and University of Miami President Donna Shalala, among others.

“From an early suffragist to a Civil Rights pioneer; from a university president to trailblazers in health and science; each of these women have demonstrated fortitude, perseverance, intelligence and hope," said Christine Moulton, Executive Director of the National Women’s Hall of Fame. "Their experiences provide both an example for each of us to emulate and a challenge for each of to embrace. What began in Seneca Falls comes full circle this October, when this phenomenal group of Inductees convenes in the birthplace of women’s rights.”

The National Women’s Hall of Fame, founded in 1969, has inducted 236 women since its inception. This year’s Inductees will join a notable group that includes Susan B. Anthony, Dr. Dorothy Height, Maya Lin, Sandra Day O’Connor, and Rosa Parks.

More information on the Hall of Fame is available at greatwomen.org.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Gariot P. Louima ?
Director of Communications
Office: 937-319-6131
Mobile: 937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org

Morgan Fellows Anne Bohlen and Jean Gregorek are sponsoring a series of eight readings with established and emerging authors. Sales of books at the first reading on Feb. 6 will support Haitian Earthquake Relief.

 

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – March 10, 2011 – Noted author Manuel Martinez will read from his critically acclaimed recent fiction in the final event of Antioch College’s Fireside Readings at 2 p.m., Sunday, March 20, in the Coretta Scott King Center.

Martinez teaches contemporary U.S. and Chicano literature at the Ohio State University, and has authored one book of literary criticism, Countering the Counterculture: Rereading Postwar American Dissent, and three novels: Crossing (1998), Drift (2003) and Day of the Dead (2009). His work has also appeared in the anthologies Hecho en Tejas and Latinos in Lotusland.

Morgan Fellows Anne Bohlen and Jean Gregorek sponsored this series of readings by established and emerging multi-ethnic writers. These relaxed readings are held by the fireplace at the Center on Sunday afternoons through March.

The eight featured creative writers – fiction writers, poets and memoirists – offer a variety of voices and fresh perspectives on life in contemporary North America. Two of the authors are on the forefront of the vibrant new school of Haitian writing in English, exploring both Haitian and Haitian immigrant experience, while two authors work within the expansive and rapidly-growing tradition of Latino literature in the United States. All of the visiting writers are relatively young – three of the creative writers are currently graduate students at the University of Cincinnati, while two have just completed MFA's.

The series began with the celebrated Haitian novelist and literary critic Dr. Myriam Chancy, who will read recent fiction. Her novels will be available for sale at the event, and the proceeds from Chancy's book sales will be donated to Haitian Earthquake Relief.

List of Events:

Sunday, February 6 – Myriam Chancy
2 p.m., The Coretta Scott King Center, Antioch College
Haitian-Canadian writer Myriam Chancy reads from her recent novels: The Loneliness of Angels (2010), The Scorpion’s Claw (2005), and Spirit of Haiti (2003). Also an influential feminist literary critic (Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women; Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile), Professor Chancy teaches Caribbean literature, African Diaspora studies, and creative writing at the University of Cincinnati. Her books will be available for purchase with proceeds donated to Haitian Earthquake Relief.

Sunday, February 20 – Rafael Torch
2 p.m., The Coretta Scott King Center, Antioch College
Writer, high school teacher, and Antioch alumnus Rafael Torch (‘02) will read from his creative nonfiction. Torch's work has been published in the Antioch Review, the Indiana Review, and the North American Review, among other places, and his MA thesis from the University of Chicago, "The Garcia Boy: A Memoir," received numerous awards, including the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Excellence in graduate work.

Sunday, February 27 – Gariot Louima and T.J. Jarrett
2 p.m., The Coretta Scott King Center, Antioch College
Louima, a fiction writer, former journalist and director of communications at Antioch College, will read recent short fiction; T.J. Jarrett will read poetry. Louima's stories have appeared in The Caribbean Writer and Carte Blanche, and are forthcoming in the anthology The Haiti I Knew, The Haiti I Know, The Haiti I Want to Know. He was a finalist for the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers. Jarrett is a writer and poet whose recent work has been published or is forthcoming in the African American Review, the Boston Review, Calaloo, Linebreak, and Third Coast. Her manuscript, "The Moon Looks Down and Laughs," was a finalist for the Tampa Review Poetry Prize.

Sunday March 6 – Rachel Steiger-Meister, Kathy Zlabek and Michelle Burke
2 p.m., The Coretta Scott King Center, Antioch College
Steiger-Meister, Zlabek, and Burke are young creative writers and doctoral candidates at the University of Cincinnati. Rachel Steiger-Meister, a native of Yellow Springs, is the recipient of awards for excellence in scholarship and creative writing from Brown and Wright State Universities. Steiger-Meister has read her fiction at literary events in Boston, Providence, and Pittsburgh. Katherine Zlabek's poetry and short stories have appeared in The Madison Review, The Oxford Magazine, SAGA, and the anthology World Lives, Prairie Living (2005). Zlabek received the Frostic Fiction Award at Western Michigan University. Michelle Y. Burke is a scholar and poet currently pursuing her doctorate in English Literature. Her poems have appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review, Hotel Amerika, Lake Effect, the New Orleans Review, and Yemassee. Her chapbook, Horse Loquela, was published by the Alabama School of Fine Arts (2008).

Sunday, March 20 – Manuel Martinez
2 p.m., The Coretta Scott King Center, Antioch College
Manuel Martinez will read from his critically acclaimed recent fiction. Professor Martinez teaches contemporary U.S. and Chicano literature at the Ohio State University, and has authored one book of literary criticism, Countering the Counterculture: Rereading Postwar American Dissent, and three novels: Crossing (1998), Drift (2003) and Day of the Dead (2009). His work has also appeared in the anthologies Hecho en Tejas and Latinos in Lotusland.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Gariot P. Louima ?
Director of Communications
Office: 937-319-6131
Mobile: 937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org

Antioch College recently accepted its first four students for the entering class of 2011. These students will be Horace Mann Fellows; working with the College administration and faculty, they will be tasked with building the new Antioch and creating its culture. They will shape programs and help construct the experience they envision. In return, Antioch College will award these students with full four-year scholarships.

James Michael Russell, one of the four students accepted so far, said recently to the Yellow Springs News: “I want to go to Antioch…to finally realize my only dream of the past few years, to be an Antiochian. I want to go to Antioch…for what the college represents: not just the vital three C's, that is co-op, classroom and community, but also the kind of person it creates.” Kristen Pett, the Special Assistant to the President for Enrollment, said to the News that these first four students were out of 17 early admissions applications. Pett also said that the initial group is “strong, intellectually inquisitive and from a range of educational backgrounds.” She went on to say that they are also diverse in race, gender, and background.

The deadline for regular admission has been extended to March 1st. Students will be notified by April 1st, and then students will have until May 1st to let the college know if they will be accepting the Fellowship and entering in the fall.

Pett also told the News that applications were coming in at a steady pace. “We continue to attract some of the most talented and community-minded [high school] graduates,” she said.

More information on the Horace Mann Fellowships, including applications and nomination forms, can be found at the Antioch College website.

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – February 25, 2011 – The 29 members of the Antioch College Alumni Association Board of Directors will meet March 4-5 on the College's campus. A number of sessions are open to the public; the full schedule is posted online.

Apart from a series of concurrent committee meetings, all open sessions will be streamed at http://antiochcollege.org/media/audio/.

For information, contact Stacey Wirrig, director of alumni relations, at 937-207-2640 or swirrig@antiochcollege.org.