Antioch College
Private liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Antioch College is a private liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Founded in 1850 by the Christian Connection, the college began operating in 1852 as a non-sectarian institution; politician and education reformer Horace Mann was its first president.
Motto | Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. |
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Type | Private liberal arts college |
Established | 1850; 174 years ago (1850) (historical), 2011 (reopening)[1] |
Endowment | $44.3 million[1] |
President | Jane Fernandes |
Provost | Brian Norman |
Academic staff | 21[2][3] |
Administrative staff | 56[2][3] |
Students | 133[4] |
Location | , , United States |
Campus | Rural |
Colors | Crimson, white, black[5] |
Affiliations | Great Lakes Colleges Association Global Liberal Arts Alliance |
Mascot | Antioch Free Radicals (historical)[6] |
Website | www |
The college has been politically liberal and reformist since its inception. It was the fourth college in the country to admit African-American students on an equal basis with whites.[lower-alpha 1] It has had a tumultuous financial and corporative history, closing repeatedly, for years at a time, until new funding was assembled.
Antioch College began opening new campuses in 1964, when it purchased the Putney School of Education in Vermont. Eventually it opened 38 different campuses, and in 1978 it changed its name to Antioch University. While most of the university's campuses focused on adult education, graduate programs, and degree completion, Antioch College remained a traditional undergraduate institution on the original campus. In 2008, the university closed the college, but it reopened under new management in 2011 after a group of alumni formed the Antioch College Continuation Corporation and bought from the university both the physical campus and the right to use the name "Antioch College."
Antioch is one of only a few liberal arts institutions in the United States featuring a cooperative education work program mandatory for all students, becoming a Federal Work College in 2024. It is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association,[7] the Global Liberal Arts Alliance,[8] and the Strategic Ohio Council for Higher Education.[9] The college is affiliated with two Nobel Prize winners, José Ramos-Horta and Mario Capecchi.
Location | 1 Morgan Place, Antioch College campus, Yellow Springs, Ohio[11] |
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Coordinates | 39°48′00″N 83°53′17″W |
Area | 3 acres (1.2 ha) |
Built | 1852 |
Built by | Alpheus M. Merrifield |
Architect | Boyden & Ball |
Architectural style | Romanesque Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 75001411[12] |
Added to NRHP | June 30, 1975 |