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CBS News Antioch College in Yellow Spring, Ohio, is waiving the tuition for all its students, who enroll in the next three years. How much are these freebies worth? The value of the free tuition for the current year is $26500. The scholarship, based on that … Antioch College offering free tuition to next three freshman classes College in Ohio Waives Tuition for Next Three Years |
Wingard to lecture tonight
Leslie Wingard will present “Black Men and the Crisis of Faith in Literature and Film” tonight at 7 p.m. in Olive Kettering Library at Antioch College. Wingard is assistant professor of English at the College of Wooster, where her primary research includes African-American literature, black visual culture, religion and literature, ethnic studies and women’s and gender studies. Her article, “As Seen Through Stained Glass: Religion, Politics, and Aesthetics in Alice Walker’s Meridian,” is forthcoming in Religion & Literature.
The following video, produced by the College of Wooster, provides a brief introduction to Wingard, her interests and her teaching philosophy:
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For more information on the lecture, contact Geneva Gano at 937-479-9346 or ggano {at} antiochcollege(.)org.
New chair for board
The Antioch College Board of Trustees this week appointed Frances Degen Horowitz, ’54, as board chair, replacing Lee Morgan, ’66. Morgan will remain on the board as vice-chair, according to a press release, but will focus on fundraising.
A current board member, Horowitz, of New York City, is a prominent child psychologist who most recently served as president of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Before that she was dean of the Graduate School at the University of Kansas-Lawrence.
Also this week, the board announced that it will extend the four-year full-tuition Horace Mann fellowships to members of next fall’s Antioch College incoming class.
“We don’t want economics to be an impediment to a high-quality liberal arts education,” Antioch College President Mark Roosevelt said in the press release. “By providing four-year, full-tuition scholarships, we make attending Antioch College a realistic option for the best and brightest students, regardless of their family’s economic situation.”
Eagleson new creative director at college
Dennie Eagleson
Former longtime Antioch College faculty member Dennie Eagleson has returned to the college in the new half-time position of creative director, the college announced earlier this month.
“Dennie is a great addition to our academic team,” Vice President for Academic Affairs Hassan Rahmanian said in a college press release. “She has a long and productive affiliation with, and a great passion for, Antioch College.”
Eagleson’s position will involve managing the Herndon Gallery and helping to organize its exhibits; creating an artist-in-residence program (both in collaboration with college faculty member Sara Black); and offering workshops in photography as part of the college’s co-curricular program.
A graduate of Antioch in 1971, Eagleson taught at the college for more than 20 years, beginning in 1987 as adjunct instructor of photography and later becoming associate professor of photography. In the 1990s she served as director of the Herndon Gallery. After the college was closed in 2008, Eagleson taught for a year at the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute.
She holds a bachelors of arts from Antioch College and a masters of fine arts from the University of Cincinnati.
In an interview last week, Eagleson said that as well as working with college students and staff, she aims to connect the gallery to the Yellow Springs community for not just visual arts, but other cultural events. For instance, the gallery will host a Chamber Music Yellow Springs event this winter, and Eagleson seeks other ways to serve the community. She also seeks volunteers to help staff the gallery duing afternoon hours; interested persons should contact her at 937-475-5618.
It’s exciting to be on campus again, Eagleson said.
“The students are interesting and lively, and people seem very capable and committed. There’s a high level of positive energy,” she said.
College announces new board chair, extension of full-tuition fellowships
At their teleconference on Sunday, Jan. 15, members of the Antioch College board of trustees elected current board member Frances Degen Horowitz as the board’s new chair, replacing Lee Morgan, who will stay on the board but focus on fundraising, according to a Jan. 17 college press release.
The board also voted to extend for another year the school’s Horace Mann Fellowships, which will provide four-year, full tuition scholarships to all incoming students next fall. The school offered the Horace Mann Fellowships to all 35 students who entered in fall 2011, but had originally planned to seek tuition from the second-year class, which is projected to be 75 students. However, because fund-raising is going well for the college, board members chose to extend the Horace Mann fellowships.
“We don’t want economics to be an impediment to a high-quality liberal arts education,” Antioch College President Mark Roosevelt stated in the press release. “By providing four-year, full tuition scholarships, we make attending Antioch College a realistic option for the best and brightest students, regardless of their family’s economic situation.”
At a college Dr. Martin Luther King Day event on Monday, Jan. 16, Roosevelt stated that the college’s annual fund, which funds operations, was up 70 percent this year over last. At the end of 2011, the fund had $1.2 million, with six months of fund-raising to go, Roosevelt said.
Horowitz, of New York City, is a Antioch College alumna from 1954 and a prominent child psychologist who most recently served as president of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Before that, she was vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service and dean of the Graduate School at the University of Kansas-Lawrence.
Morgan, ’66, is the retired president and CEO of the Antioch Company who took part in the negotiations that led to the board’s purchase of the campus from Antioch University in 2009. He is also a principal with the Morgan Family Foundation, which provides grants to nonprofits in Yellow Springs and St. Cloud, Minn., and the grandson of acclaimed Antioch College President Arthur Morgan, who introduced the co-op education component at Antioch, a major innovation in higher education at the time.
“I want to publicly thank Lee for the central role he played in the fight for an independent Antioch College, and the support he continues to give as we work to secure Antioch’s future,” Roosevelt said in the press release.
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