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The Higher Learning Commission accredits Antioch University. Antioch University has had continuous accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission since 1927. Antioch University is a private, non-profit 501(c)(3) institution. As an accredited institution, Antioch University’s students are fully eligible for a variety of financial aid assistance, including grants, scholarships, and loans. Antioch University has been honored with the 2009, 2010 and 2011 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll Award (with distinction in 2010). In 2011, the University was named one of the top twenty colleges most committed to community service by USA Today. For over 160 years, Antioch University has been a leader in progressive education, making a difference in the lives of children, adults, and families by transforming the traditional classroom. Through experiential learning, small class sizes, and collaborative learning environments, we have created a set of programs that help you become the teacher you have always wanted to be. Pair this with a deep respect for educational equity, social justice, and a general empathy towards the power of effective educators. You have a system that’s put in place to help you succeed. 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 University aspires to be a leading university, offering learners and communities transformative education in a global context that fosters innovation and inspires social action. Antioch University Seattle (AUS) got its start in true Antioch tradition as an experiment by Antioch College West, located in San Francisco, California. Inspired by the University Without Walls movement of the late ’60s, AUS was one of over 35 satellite Antioch College locations created to bring education to non-traditional students where they lived, which is Seattle’s case is the city. The experiment to discover if a new location could succeed in Seattle began in the Fremont neighborhood, the Center of the Universe, in 1975 with 15 students, three programs, and a vision that slowly grew into the thriving community it is today. It was based on the belief that a real change in the wider community comes from a more profound understanding of how communities function and the people who inhabit them. So we began our offerings with Bachelor’s Completion, Psychology, and Urban Studies. Antioch University’s roots began as Antioch College. It first opened its doors in 1852 in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Antioch’s first president, Horace Mann, was a lawyer and Congressman from Massachusetts, a well-known abolitionist, and social reformer. He is considered the founder of public education in the United States, believing that a well-educated populace was essential to a healthy democracy. In his first graduation speech, Horace Mann implored the Antioch graduates to “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” Those words remain throughout our history, a guiding light of our values, and an underlying commitment to an Antioch education. Nonsectarian and co-educational from the outset, Antioch was a leader of progressive thought and innovation. Antioch was the first College in the country to have a woman faculty member as equal to her male counterparts. Antioch’s curriculum was the same for men and women, and we admitted black and white students to learn together over a century before civil rights laws would require the same result. In the early 1860s, Antioch adopted a policy that no applicant could be rejected due to his or her race. Sadly, this was quite revolutionary for its time. The modern Antioch began to take shape in the 1920s under the leadership of President Arthur E. Morgan. As an engineer and former Chair of the Tennessee Valley Authority, he was interested in progressive education. He reorganized the Antioch curriculum to include co-op, a structured method of combining classroom-based education, and practical work experience. Antioch was the first liberal arts college in the United States to establish a co-op program. This critical innovation in experiential learning has been widely reproduced throughout higher education today. Always positioned at the forefront of social activism, the period during and after World War II proved even more groundbreaking for Antioch. During the war, Antioch participated in a program that allowed Japanese citizens incarcerated in internment camps to enroll at Antioch and move to Yellow Springs, Ohio. Also, in the 1940s and beyond, Antioch set out to diversify the campus by offering more scholarships to people of color. Many famous African Americans graduated from the College, including Coretta Scott King, author, activist, civil rights leader, and the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Congressional Delegate for Wash. D.C., and A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., civil rights advocate, author, and Chief Justice of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit. Other notable Antioch alumni include two Nobel laureates, Mario Capecchi (B.S. 1961), co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and José Manuel Ramos-Horta (M.A., Peace Studies, 1984), co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, and later President of East Timor (2007-2012). The current Antioch University began to take shape in the 1960s. As Antioch College’s reputation for academic excellence, social relevance, activism, and experiential learning continued to grow, so did its campuses. As part of the ‘University without walls’ movement of the 1960s and 70s, Antioch expanded to sites across the country. The strong values-based nature of developing these campuses is important to recognize. The vision inspiring the expansion in the mid- to late 1960s and early 1970s was to serve adult learners and especially women and minorities, an approach to ‘taking the ivory tower’ out to the people. This was a very distinctive call for higher education at the time. The first of the adult campuses, today’s Antioch University New England, was established in 1964, and the last, Antioch University Santa Barbara, was established in 1974. During this era, over 35 Antioch “satellite” campuses were founded across the country, including locations in inner cities from coast to coast, on Native-American reservations, and in international locations. Antioch also founded an innovative law school in 1972 in Washington, D.C., which operated on an experiential legal clinic teaching model. All students of the Antioch School of Law participated in the clinic, which provided legal services to poor and underserved communities in D.C. The law school now operates as The University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law and is no longer part of Antioch University. Due to its expansion of programs, graduate degrees, and campuses, Antioch’s name was changed in 1978 from Antioch College to Antioch University. Nonetheless, it is the same institution that was initially incorporated in Ohio in 1852. It has been in continuous existence since then and has been continuously accredited by the Higher Learning Commission since 1926. We are proud that Antioch University had had a significant influence on higher education. The precursor to the National Council of Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL), was founded by Morris Keeton when he was Antioch’s Vice President of Academic Affairs. CAEL’s influence was instrumental in facilitating other colleges and universities recruiting and supporting adult learners, especially as the demographics of traditional 18 to 22-year-old students was decreasing in the 1980s. We are also proud of the many innovations in academic programming offered by the campuses in promoting undergraduate degree completion and graduate degrees responsive to the needs of adult learners. As examples, our New England campus offered Antioch’s first APA accredited doctoral program in Clinical Psychology (PsyD), followed by a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies, one of the first in the nation. In 2001, Antioch University established a highly innovative low residency Ph.D. Program in Leadership and Change. It has expanded to become Antioch’s Graduate School of Leadership & Change, which is a distinctive, outcomes-based, doctoral program focused on the study, research, and practice of leading positive change in workplaces and communities worldwide. In 2008, Antioch University closed its residential College campus in Yellow Springs, Ohio, due to significant enrollment and financial challenges. The College campus and other assets were then transferred in 2009 to a new Ohio non-profit corporation known as Antioch College Continuation Corporation, formed by a group of Antioch alumni. In that transaction, the University agreed to license to them the name “Antioch College.” The College was subsequently reopened in 2011 as a legally separate institution, but with a shared heritage with Antioch University. Those shared roots and an abiding commitment to social, economic, and environmental justice remain at our core. Today’s Antioch University is composed of Antioch University New England, Antioch University Midwest, Antioch University Los Angeles, Antioch University Santa Barbara, Antioch University Seattle, Antioch University Online, and the University’s Graduate School of Leadership & Change. Collectively, they make up one Antioch University with progressive values and a mission to educate the next generation of those determined to win victories for humanity. View full university

Antioch University Santa Barbara (AUSB) values student diversity and welcomes applications from all qualified international candidates. Applicants from outside the United States should plan to apply at least three to four months before the quarter starts to allow time to process all required paperwork. Antioch University's roots began as Antioch College. It first opened its doors in 1852 in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Antioch's first president, Horace Mann, was a lawyer and Congressman from Massachusetts, a well-known abolitionist, and social reformer. He is considered the founder of public education in the United States, believing that a well-educated populace was essential to a healthy democracy. In his first graduation speech, Horace Mann implored the Antioch graduates to "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity." Those words remain throughout our history, a guiding light of our values, and an underlying commitment to an Antioch education. Nonsectarian and co-educational from the outset, Antioch was a leader of progressive thought and innovation. Antioch was the first College in the country to have a female faculty member equal to her male counterparts. Antioch's curriculum was the same for men and women, and we admitted black and white students to learn together over a century before civil rights laws would require the same result. In the early 1860s, Antioch adopted a policy that no applicant could be rejected due to his or her race. Sadly, this was quite revolutionary for its time. The modern Antioch began to take shape in the 1920s under the leadership of President Arthur E. Morgan. As an engineer and former Chair of the Tennessee Valley Authority, he was interested in progressive education. He reorganized the Antioch curriculum to include co-op, a structured method of combining classroom-based education, and practical work experience. Antioch was the first liberal arts college in the United States to establish a co-op program. This critical innovation in experiential learning has been widely reproduced throughout higher education today. Always positioned at the forefront of social activism, the period during and after World War II proved even more groundbreaking for Antioch. During the war, Antioch participated in a program that allowed Japanese citizens incarcerated in internment camps to enroll at Antioch and move to Yellow Springs, Ohio. In the 1940s and beyond, Antioch set out to diversify the campus by offering more scholarships to people of color. Many famous African Americans graduated from the College, including Coretta Scott King, author, activist, civil rights leader, and the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Congressional Delegate for Wash. D.C., and A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., civil rights advocate, author, and Chief Justice of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit. Other notable Antioch alumni include two Nobel laureates, Mario Capecchi (B.S. 1961), co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and José Manuel Ramos-Horta (M.A., Peace Studies, 1984), co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, and later President of East Timor (2007-2012). The current Antioch University began to take shape in the 1960s. Antioch College's reputation for academic excellence, social relevance, activism, and experiential learning continued to grow, so did its campuses. As part of the 'University without walls' movement of the 1960s and 70s, Antioch expanded to sites across the country. The strong values-based nature of developing these campuses is important to recognize. The vision inspiring the expansion in the mid- to late 1960s and early 1970s was to serve adult learners and especially women and minorities, an approach to 'taking the ivory tower' out to the people. This was a very distinctive call for higher education at the time. The first of the adult campuses, today's Antioch University New England, was established in 1964, and the last, Antioch University Santa Barbara, was established in 1974. During this era, over 35 Antioch "satellite" campuses were founded across the country, including locations in inner cities from coast to coast, on Native-American reservations, and in international locations. Antioch also founded an innovative law school in 1972 in Washington, D.C., which operated on an experiential legal clinic teaching model. All students of the Antioch School of Law participated in the clinic, which provided legal services to poor and underserved communities in D.C. The law school now operates as The University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law and is no longer part of Antioch University. Antioch's name was changed in 1978 from Antioch College to Antioch University due to its expansion of programs, graduate degrees, and campuses. Nonetheless, it is the same institution that was initially incorporated in Ohio in 1852. It has been in continuous existence since then and has been continuously accredited by the Higher Learning Commission since 1926. We are proud that Antioch University had had a significant influence on higher education. The precursor to the National Council of Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL), was founded by Morris Keeton when he was Antioch's Vice President of Academic Affairs. CAEL's influence was instrumental in facilitating other colleges and universities recruiting and supporting adult learners, notably as the demographics of traditional 18 to 22-year-old students decreased in the 1980s. We are also proud of the many innovations in academic programming offered by the campuses in promoting undergraduate degree completion and graduate degrees that are responsive to adult learners' needs. As examples, our New England campus offered Antioch's first APA accredited doctoral program in Clinical Psychology (PsyD), followed by a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies, one of the first in the nation. In 2001, Antioch University established a highly innovative low residency Ph.D. Program in Leadership and Change. It has expanded to become Antioch's Graduate School of Leadership & Change, and a distinctive, outcomes-based, doctoral program focused on the study, research, and practice of leading positive change in workplaces and communities worldwide. In 2008, Antioch University closed its residential College campus in Yellow Springs, Ohio, due to significant enrollment and financial challenges. The College campus and other assets were then transferred in 2009 to a new Ohio non-profit corporation known as Antioch College Continuation Corporation, formed by a group of Antioch alumni. In that transaction, the University agreed to license to them the name "Antioch College." The College was subsequently reopened in 2011 as a legally separate institution, but with a shared heritage with Antioch University. Those shared roots and an abiding commitment to social, economic, and environmental justice remain at our core. Today's Antioch University is composed of Antioch University New England, Antioch University Midwest, Antioch University Los Angeles, Antioch University Santa Barbara, Antioch University Seattle, Antioch University Online, and the University's Graduate School of Leadership & Change. Collectively, they make up one Antioch University with progressive values and a mission to educate the next generation of those determined to win victories for humanity. View full university

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. The University offers quality academic programs relevant to the needs of today’s learners. It embraces experiential learning by bridging academic outcomes with the real-world experience of all members of its learning community. The University educates the whole person by cultivating personal growth, pragmatic idealism, and the achievement of professional goals. The University supports the active engagement of students and faculty in both scholarship and service. Antioch values the creative and deliberative application of teaching and learning to ‘further social, economic, and environmental justice.’ The University maintains a historical commitment to promoting social justice and the common good. Students graduate from Antioch University with a heightened sense of their power and purpose as scholars, practitioners, and global citizens. The University nurtures inclusive communities of learners, inspiring diversity of thought and action. Antioch University engages and supports the educational, cultural, and environmental vitality of the diverse regional, national, and international communities that it serves. In radical recognition of our mission and purpose, we pledge to engage in ongoing development as a wholly inclusive community actively. To this end, we will consistently, deliberately, and systematically strive to be appropriately responsive to the myriad dimensions of human diversity, such that none are marginalized and all experience justice and empowerment. Moving beyond tolerance toward inclusion and the celebration of our differences, we will courageously embrace any resulting challenges as they arise, recognizing that the responsibility for this rests with every member of the community. We assert that we will move expeditiously toward our goals through an ongoing commitment to courageous self‐examination and respectful and honest interactions, which will lead us to the creation of formal and informal structures, policies, programs, and services that will give life to these ideals on our campuses and as we touch the world around us. Our approach to experiential learning extends beyond the confines of the traditional classroom. Many students come equipped with previous accomplishments and life experiences that we consider when evaluating how best to serve them and you. At Antioch, you will learn skills, knowledge, and techniques that are directly translatable to your field. We believe hands-on learning, internships, and other experiences outside of the classroom, are vital to personal and professional growth. Our admissions process focuses holistically on your life experience, taking into consideration the possibility you may be returning to formal education after many years. Using a system of Prior Learning Credits, interviews, references, and essays, we take into account all of your applied knowledge and experiences. At Antioch University’s admissions department, your lived and earned knowledge is a valuable asset. You do not work in a silo, so you should not learn in one either. Our collaborative environments emphasize learning through meaningful interactions with other adult learners. This stimulating environment further encourages challenging the status quo through group discussion and analysis. It also introduces and enhances invaluable leadership and management skills that apply to any workplace. Some of our students are returning, adult learners, and some of our students are finishing their education. Everyone around you at Antioch is here with one common goal: to better themselves through higher education. By working with and alongside peers on a similar life path, you can collaborate with other students who take learning seriously. This creates a supportive and engaging environment, with the added benefit of networking with like-minded individuals in your field. Intimate classes and professors who care about their students are part of the DNA at Antioch University. Our faculty are responsive, knowledgeable, and ready to help you throughout your studies. Individualized attention allows you to build outstanding rapports with professors trained to adapt to each individual’s learning style. This close relationship is often beneficial beyond graduation as you continue down your career path with the support of a lifelong mentor. We recognize that it is not possible to put life on hold while you go back to school. By offering personalized course structure and a robust selection of online and low residency programs, you will be able to find a degree that fits your busy schedule and gives you the learning outcomes you need to succeed. The Graduate School of Leadership and Change admissions team is here to help answer any of your questions and guide you in the exploration of whether our doctoral journey matches your educational goals. We pride ourselves on personalized attention from our first contact, so please do not hesitate to reach out anytime if you have questions about the program, the application process, or our learning community. Get the career you want. Whether you choose to pursue your degree at one of our campuses or through our online learning programs, complete your Bachelor’s degree with Antioch University. Get credit for the work you have already done – our Bachelor’s completion programs accept credit transfers from an accredited institution or joint services transcripts. Our academic quality standards are the same, no matter how you choose to learn – online, low-residency, or on-campus. Scholarships and financial aid are available for those who qualify. View full university

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. In radical recognition of our mission and purpose, we pledge to engage in ongoing development as a wholly inclusive community actively. To this end, we will consistently, deliberately, and systematically strive to be appropriately responsive to the myriad dimensions of human diversity, such that none are marginalized and all experience justice and empowerment. Moving beyond tolerance toward inclusion and the celebration of our differences, we will courageously embrace any resulting challenges as they arise, recognizing that the responsibility for this rests with every member of the community. We assert that we will move expeditiously toward our goals through an ongoing commitment to courageous self‐examination and respectful and honest interactions, which will lead us to the creation of formal and informal structures, policies, programs, and services that will give life to these ideals on our campuses and as we touch the world around us. The Graduate School of Leadership and Change admissions team is here to help answer any of your questions and guide you in the exploration of whether our doctoral journey matches your educational goals. We pride ourselves on personalized attention from our first contact, so please do not hesitate to reach out anytime if you have questions about the program, the application process, or our learning community. Our approach to experiential learning extends beyond the confines of the traditional classroom. Many students come equipped with previous accomplishments and life experiences that we consider when evaluating how best to serve them and you. At Antioch, you will learn skills, knowledge, and techniques that are directly translatable to your field. We believe hands-on learning, internships, and other experiences outside of the classroom, are vital to personal and professional growth. Our admissions process focuses holistically on your life experience, considering the possibility you may be returning to formal education after many years. Using a system of Prior Learning Credits, interviews, references, and essays, we take into account all of your applied knowledge and experiences. At Antioch University’s admissions department, your lived and earned knowledge is a valuable asset. You do not work in a silo, so you should not learn in one either. Our collaborative environments emphasize learning through meaningful interactions with other adult learners. This stimulating environment further encourages challenging the status quo through group discussion and analysis. It also introduces and enhances invaluable leadership and management skills that apply to any workplace. Some of our students are returning, adult learners, and some of our students are finishing their education. Everyone around you at Antioch is here with one common goal: to better themselves through higher education. By working with and alongside peers on a similar life path, you can collaborate with other students who take learning seriously. This creates a supportive and engaging environment, with the added benefit of networking with like-minded individuals in your field. Intimate classes and professors who care about their students are part of the DNA at Antioch University. Our faculty are responsive, knowledgeable, and ready to help you throughout your studies. Individualized attention allows you to build outstanding rapports with professors trained to adapt to each individual’s learning style. This close relationship is often beneficial beyond graduation as you continue down your career path with the support of a lifelong mentor. We recognize that it is not possible to put life on hold while you go back to school. By offering personalized course structure and a robust selection of online and low residency programs, you will be able to find a degree that fits your busy schedule and gives you the learning outcomes you need to succeed. Antioch University ensures, in compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and all amendments, and other disability nondiscrimination laws that no student shall be based on his or her disability, be excluded from participation in be denied the benefits of, or otherwise be subject to discrimination under any university program or activity. Antioch University is committed to providing qualified students with a disability an equal opportunity to access the benefits, rights, and privileges of university services, programs, and activities in the most integrated setting appropriate to the students’ needs. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified students with disabilities to ensure that all students have an equal opportunity to benefit from and have access to programs and services. Antioch University maintains a Disability Support Services (DSS) Office on each campus and university-wide programs to coordinate services for students with disabilities. All students requesting reasonable accommodations must register with the DSS Office and may be required to submit documentation of the disability from a health care professional. All accommodations are determined on a case-by-case basis since functional limitations can vary uniquely. Technology, globalization, and cultural shifts change the way we interact, defying what we constitute as the norm. Evolving advancements, both technically and culturally, have changed the way that business is conducted. We emphasize your practical professional development, building on foundational knowledge to increase savviness and adaptability to developing trends. Our programs are designed to train active team managers, champion ethical business practices, and develop the next generation of business leaders. Go beyond narrow problem definition and status quo solution methods to rapidly build upon your career experience. View full university

Antioch University values and nurtures an innovative, reflective, and experiential approach to educational excellence. We build on our history and foster creativity and leadership within our community. We are focused on compassion, ethical steadfastness, and a never-ending belief that change is possible. Our campus and curriculum reflect the social justice mission and community-focused efforts and activities that make us different. In addition to Antioch University Los Angeles' Climate Action Plan development and the ongoing work of the Sustainability Committee, AULA has an operational commitment as well as varied programs and projects on campus. The Library provides educational resources and services to support learning and scholarship at AULA. It creates and maintains a productive and comfortable environment conducive to thought, research, and study for members of the academic community. It houses a small and provocative collection of books and films and subscribes to extensive electronic resources to support graduate-level research. Librarians are here to work with the AULA community in various ways: basic to advanced library research skills, database digging, citation assistance, critical reading skills, research mapping, formulating research questions, academic reader's advisory, in-class and online instruction sessions, workshops, one-to-one sessions, academic technology assistance and much else. With more than 8,000 distinguished alumni, Antioch University Los Angeles (AULA) has been honored to serve the diverse communities of the greater Los Angeles area since 1972. The University remains the legacy of Horace Mann's original vision, and an example of the success of educational experimentation, innovation, and diversity of thought. Antioch University continues to break down educational barriers and rebuild them as educational opportunities, providing students with the tools to explore, empower, and transform the world around them. Antioch University Los Angeles provides rigorous progressive education to prepare students for the complexities of today's diverse societies. Combining dynamic scholarship and creative endeavor with experiential learning and reflective practice, AULA fosters personal and collective agency, global citizenship, and socially conscious leadership. Antioch University's roots began as Antioch College. It first opened its doors in 1852 in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Antioch's first president, Horace Mann, was a lawyer and Congressman from Massachusetts, a well-known abolitionist, and social reformer. He is considered the founder of public education in the United States, believing that a well-educated populace was essential to a healthy democracy. In his first graduation speech, Horace Mann implored the Antioch graduates to "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity." Those words remain throughout our history, a guiding light of our values, and an underlying commitment to an Antioch education. Nonsectarian and co-educational from the outset, Antioch was a leader of progressive thought and innovation. Antioch was the first College in the country to have a woman faculty member as equal to her male counterparts. Antioch's curriculum was the same for men and women, and we admitted black and white students to learn together over a century before civil rights laws would require the same result. In the early 1860s, Antioch adopted a policy that no applicant could be rejected due to his or her race. Sadly, this was quite revolutionary for its time. The modern Antioch began to take shape in the 1920s under the leadership of President Arthur E. Morgan. As an engineer and former Chair of the Tennessee Valley Authority, he was interested in progressive education. He reorganized the Antioch curriculum to include co-op, a structured method of combining classroom-based education, and practical work experience. Antioch was the first liberal arts college in the United States to establish a co-op program. This critical innovation in experiential learning has been widely reproduced throughout higher education today. Always positioned at the forefront of social activism, the period during and after World War II proved even more groundbreaking for Antioch. During the war, Antioch participated in a program that allowed Japanese citizens incarcerated in internment camps to enroll at Antioch and move to Yellow Springs, Ohio. Also, in the 1940s and beyond, Antioch set out to diversify the campus by offering more scholarships to people of color. Many famous African Americans graduated from the College, including Coretta Scott King, author, activist, civil rights leader, and the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Congressional Delegate for Wash. D.C., and A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., civil rights advocate, author, and Chief Justice of the U.S.Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit. The current Antioch University began to take shape in the 1960s. As Antioch College's reputation for academic excellence, social relevance, activism, and experiential learning continued to grow, so did its campuses. As part of the 'University without walls' movement of the 1960s and 70s, Antioch expanded to sites across the country. The strong values-based nature of developing these campuses is important to recognize. The vision inspiring the expansion in the mid- to late 1960s and early 1970s was to serve adult learners and especially women and minorities, an approach to 'taking the ivory tower' out to the people. This was a very distinctive call for higher education at the time. The first of the adult campuses, today's Antioch University New England, was established in 1964, and the last, Antioch University Santa Barbara, was established in 1974. During this era, over 35 Antioch "satellite" campuses were founded across the country, including locations in inner cities from coast to coast, on Native-American reservations, and in international locations. Antioch also founded an innovative law school in 1972 in Washington, D.C., which operated on an experiential legal clinic teaching model. All students of the Antioch School of Law participated in the clinic, which provided legal services to poor and underserved communities in D.C. The law school now operates as The University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law and is no longer part of Antioch University. Due to its expansion of programs, graduate degrees, and campuses, Antioch's name was changed in 1978 from Antioch College to Antioch University. Nonetheless, it is the same institution that was initially incorporated in Ohio in 1852. It has been in continuous existence since then and has been continuously accredited by the Higher Learning Commission since 1926. We are proud that Antioch University had had a significant influence on higher education. The precursor to the National Council of Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL), was founded by Morris Keeton when he was Antioch's Vice President of Academic Affairs. CAEL's influence was instrumental in facilitating other colleges and universities recruiting and supporting adult learners, notably as the demographics of traditional 18 to 22-year-old students decreased in the 1980s. We are also proud of the many innovations in academic programming offered by the campuses in promoting undergraduate degree completion and graduate degrees that are responsive to adult learners' needs. As examples, our New England campus offered Antioch's first APA accredited doctoral program in Clinical Psychology (PsyD), followed by a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies, one of the first in the nation. In 2001, Antioch University established a highly innovative low residency Ph.D. Program in Leadership and Change. It has expanded to become Antioch's Graduate School of Leadership & Change, and a distinctive, outcomes-based doctoral program focused on the study, research, and practice of leading positive change in workplaces and communities worldwide. In 2008, Antioch University closed its residential College campus in Yellow Springs, Ohio, due to significant enrollment and financial challenges. The College campus and other assets were then transferred in 2009 to a new Ohio non-profit corporation known as Antioch College Continuation Corporation, formed by a group of Antioch alumni. In that transaction, the University agreed to license to them the name "Antioch College." The College was subsequently reopened in 2011 as a legally separate institution, but with a shared heritage with Antioch University. Those shared roots and an abiding commitment to social, economic, and environmental justice remain at our core. Today's Antioch University is composed of Antioch University New England, Antioch University Midwest, Antioch University Los Angeles, Antioch University Santa Barbara, Antioch University Seattle, Antioch University Online, and the University's Graduate School of Leadership & Change. Collectively, they make up one Antioch University with progressive values and a mission to educate the next generation of those determined to win victories for humanity. View full university