Tag: Education

The Coretta Scott King Center Resource Lounge project would like to create a Multipurpose Resource Lounge that will serve as a resource center, student lounge and meeting space, in order to meet the growing need for additional student space on campus. The space will assist in initiatives to create a welcoming and accessible environment for diverse students and efforts to support students in their sense of belonging. This proposed space would also offer a comfortable and private area for meetings and access to a computer and media resources for diversity-focused independent groups. The project would use the $5,000 for furniture, technology and multicultural media resources.

The Defenestration Gallery, WindowCIL’s future student art gallery, wishes to create a space for student agency in the arts and support the development of artists by providing opportunities to display work, curate exhibitions, learn essential art skills, and participate in all levels of an arts organization. The gallery also hopes to produce publications, including a quarterly catalogue compiling the artwork shown during the previous term, art-writing, artist responses, and professional documentation of the work. This project would use the $5,000 would provide costs of supplies for the gallery, printing of the publications, food and other such supplies for events, plus provide an stipend for each artist.

This project proposes to start an Antioch College chapter of the national student organization, Engineers for a Sustainable World. Once established, the chapter hopes to be part of a global network of professional mentors, colleges/universities, and communities committed to sustainability. The group plans on engaging students in educational projects on campus that integrates both classroom knowledge and community connections. The project would use the $5,000 to pay for an annual membership fee to gain access to the global network and additional funding/support, revive the Bike Share program on campus and develop a sustainable design/life cycle study for building a barn on the Antioch Farm.

The Winning Victories through Debate project comes from Antioch’s award-winning Speech & Debate Team, which believes that the transformative opportunity to participate in debate should be open to all Antioch students and don’t want it to become a “pay-to-play” activity. The project’s goal is to ensure that the team will have the resources to continue to practice for, and win, victories, both at debate tournaments around the nation during a lifetime of activism after graduation. The project would use the $5,000 to pay for tournament fees, travel, transportation and training.

The Pollinator Path project on the Antioch Farm will involve student workers and volunteers planting pollinator-friendly plants along a meandering path for visitors and students to enjoy. It will also provide an ongoing learning laboratory for student study and experiment. The area’s native pollinators have been rapidly declining due to widespread pesticide use. This space will provide safe refuge and habitat for these important creatures. The Antioch Farm plans to use the $5,000 to buy the supplies and equipment for planting, and to pay for student-worker wages and labor costs.

The Defenestration Gallery, WindowCIL’s future student art gallery, wishes to create a space for student agency in the arts and support the development of artists by providing opportunities to display work, curate exhibitions, learn essential art skills, and participate in all levels of an arts organization. The gallery also hopes to produce publications, including a quarterly catalogue compiling the artwork shown during the previous term, art-writing, artist responses, and professional documentation of the work. This project would use the $5,000 would provide costs of supplies for the gallery, printing of the publications, food and other such supplies for events, plus provide an stipend for each artist.