Antioch University Los Angeles (AULA) is a small private liberal arts school currently located in Culver City, California

Culver City, California

Culver City is a city in western Los Angeles County, California. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 38,883, up from 38,816 at the 2000 census. It is mostly surrounded by the city of Los Angeles, but also shares a border with unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County. Culver...

. The school is a campus of Antioch University

Antioch University

Antioch University is an American university with five campuses located in four states. Campuses are located in Los Angeles, California; Santa Barbara, California; Keene, New Hampshire; Yellow Springs, Ohio; and Seattle, Washington. Additionally, Antioch University houses two institution-wide...

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Background

Antioch College

Antioch College

Antioch College is a private, independent liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States. It was the founder and the flagship institution of the six-campus Antioch University system. Founded in 1852 by the Christian Connection, the college began operating in 1853 with politician and...

 was founded in 1852 in Yellow Springs, Ohio

Yellow Springs, Ohio

Yellow Springs is a village in Greene County, Ohio, United States, and is the location of Antioch College and Antioch University Midwest. The population was 3,487 at the 2010 census...

. Horace Mann

Horace Mann

Horace Mann was an American education reformer, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1827 to 1833. He served in the Massachusetts Senate from 1834 to 1837. In 1848, after serving as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education since its creation, he was...

, Antioch College’s first president, was a renowned educator, architect of the American public school system, social reformer and abolitionist. His goal was to create an educational environment that was stimulating and unconventional in its approach to learning.

As early as 1863, Antioch embraced a policy abolishing race as a criterion for acceptance. Since then, Antioch has been a dedicated advocate for social equity

Social equity

There are multiple definitions of social equity as it is a new term; each industry has seemed to take on a different connotation. The following provides for examples of each connotation.-Sustainable Development:...

. Antioch College was also the first college in America to educate women on equal terms with men. In addition, Antioch was the first American college to hire female faculty on an equal basis with male colleagues and the first co-educational college to have a woman on its Board of Trustees.

The Antioch University of today is 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. Since its creation in 1852 Antioch has evolved from a small liberal arts college to a multi-campus university system with five campuses located across the nation in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Keene, New Hampshire

Keene, New Hampshire

Keene is a city in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 23,409 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Cheshire County.Keene is home to Keene State College and Antioch University New England, and hosts the annual Pumpkin Fest...

, Seattle, Washington

Seattle, Washington

Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...

, Santa Barbara, California

Santa Barbara, California

Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean...

 and Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

. Throughout its history, Antioch University has reinvented itself to meet the needs of its students within an ever-changing world.

History

Established in 1972, Antioch University Los Angeles offers degree programs designed specifically for the mature adult learner desiring to complete a degree and pursue personal and professional goals.

The campus is centrally located within Los Angeles, approximately where the 405

Interstate 405

Interstate 405 may refer to:* Interstate 405 , a bypass of Los Angeles, California* Interstate 405 , a loop in Portland, Oregon* Interstate 405 , a bypass of Seattle, Washington...

 and 90

California State Route 90

State Route 90 is a state highway in Southern California, United States. It consists of two unconnected pieces in Greater Los Angeles....

 freeways cross. AULA is nestled between beach communities like Marina del Rey

Marina del Rey, California

-Demographics:-2010:The 2010 United States Census reported that Marina del Rey had a population of 8,866. The population density was 6,094.6 people per square mile...

 and Venice, as well as the communities of Culver City and Palms. Just 10 minutes from LAX

Los Angeles International Airport

Los Angeles International Airport is the primary airport serving the Greater Los Angeles Area, the second-most populated metropolitan area in the United States. It is most often referred to by its IATA airport code LAX, with the letters pronounced individually...

 and 20 minutes from Hollywood, the campus is ideal for working adults who commute to campus for classes.

The current student body consists of approximately 1000 learners, and supports an impressive stable of faculty who are arguably in the top echelon of their fields. Students enjoy the intimacy and interchange of small classes and usually undertake service-learning projects that engage them in valuable work within their communities.

Programs

Antioch University Los Angeles is currently home to a number of undergraduate and graduate programs: BA in Liberal Studies, which includes the Bridge Program; MA in Clinical Psychology; MA in Education; MA in Organizational Management; a low-residency MFA in Creative Writing and the new MA in Urban Sustainability program (also a low-residency program). AULA also offers a teaching credentialing program, as well as several non-degree certificate programs.

Antioch University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) and a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA).

B.A. in Liberal Studies

The B.A. in Liberal Arts Program http://antiochla.edu/academics/ba-liberal-studies at Antioch University uses multiple learning formats and develops independent studies with the support of faculty mentors. Students can obtain academic credit for prior learning. The program promotes the values of academic excellence, experiential learning, and social justice. The program developed six structured areas of concentration based on the most popular student choices: Business and Social Entrepreneurship, Child Studies, Creative Writing, Liberal Studies, Psychology and Urban Community and Environment. In addition to the six concentrations students can create programs to stretch existing careers in new directions or fuel individual enthusiasm for specialized academic focus.

Program Chair: Kirsten Grimstad, Ph.D. Core Faculty: MeHee Hyun, Ph.D., Andrea Richards, Ph.D., David L. Tripp, Ph.D., Diana Pei Wu, Ph.D.

Bridge

The Bridge Program http://www.thebridgeprogram.org at Antioch University Los Angeles offers BA credit to students. It provides free university classes for low income adults, including tuition, textbooks, instruction, tutoring, transportation, and meals during class for all Bridge students. The program, formerly called the CHE Program (Community Humanities Education), has been in existence since 1999, when it was founded by David Tripp and Shari Foos. Students in the Bridge Program are encouraged to think critically, participating in discussions and writing about philosophy, literature, and art history over nine months. Students are introduced to a variety of voices in these disciplines, from classical figures to contemporary authors. Students are also encouraged to examine the social and cultural constructs of our society. The Bridge Program was inspired by the Clemente Course at Bard College, which similarly provided free classes to economically disadvantaged students who might not otherwise be able to attend college.

Master of Arts in Organizational Management

The Master of Arts in Organizational Management http://antiochla.edu/academics/ma-organizational-management program at AULA is an established values-centered education for leaders, managers, consultants, entrepreneurs, that informs students in effectively working with and through people to accomplish organizational goals. The program tries to promote skilled leadership, team work, and a comprehensive systems understanding of organizations and their relationship to a larger environment. A combination of classroom and field-based activities are utilized by faculty to educate students. Graduates can apply skills learned in business, government and not-for-profit settings.

Program Chair: Susan Nero, Ph.D., Core Faculty: Bob Lazzarini, M.B.A.

M.A. in Psychology

The Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology http://antiochla.edu/academics/ma-psychology program educates students for careers in the helping professions. Many students go on to take and pass the MFT (Marriage and Family Therapist) licensure examinations. The curriculum is rigorous and eclectic and emphasizes the role of psychology in empowering people of all backgrounds, cultures, economic standing, sexual orientations and identities. AULA's coursework focuses on a wide range of theories and techniques for today's increasingly diverse society. Beyond the classroom walls, students implement their learning by practicing therapy under professional supervision at one of over 150 affiliated counseling centers.

Program Chair: Joy Turek, Ph.D. Core Faculty: George Bermudez, Ph.D., Andrew Jen, Ph.D., Truyen Nguyen, Ph.D., Claudia Owens Shields, Ph. D., Douglas Sadownick, Ph.D., Gregor V. Sarkisian, Ph.D., Sylvie Taylor, Ph.D.

M.A. in Urban Sustainability

The Urban Sustainability http://antiochla.edu/academics/ma-urban-sustainability program requires two years of full-time coursework that integrates theoretical learning with field-based practice. This 36 semester-credit degree program uses a low-residency format with on-campus residencies, off-site residencies, and structured project periods between those residencies. During their first year, students engage in two six-credit interdisciplinary seminar courses as well as two three-credit research-oriented courses. They also attend four residencies and begin their field work during this first year. The second year of the program requires students to continue their fieldwork and launch a capstone project while taking elective courses related to their individual disciplinary interests. Students attend two residencies during this second year and a final one at the end of their program.

Interim Chair and Core Faculty: Donald Strauss, M.F.A.

MFA in Creative Writing

Antioch University Los Angeles’ MFA program http://antiochla.edu/academics/mfa-creative-writing was founded in 1997 as the nation’s first low-residency creative writing program on the West Coast. At two 10-day residencies each year, students gather discuss literature and the pursuit of social justice. The MFA Program educates students in the various roles of the Writer in Society, how to make a difference on the page and in the communities where writers work and live.

MFA students are admitted in a single genre: fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction. The Core Faculty consists of Chair Steve Heller (fiction)

Steve Heller (fiction)

Steve Heller is the American award-winning author of The Automotive History of Lucky Kellerman.His novel The Automotive History of Lucky Kellerman was a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. His writings have earned a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two O. Henry Awards Steve Heller...

, Jenny Factor (poetry), and Bernadette Murphy. Associate Faculty includes Dodie Bellamy

Dodie Bellamy

Dodie Bellamy is an American novelist, nonfiction author, journalist and editor. Her work is frequently associated with that of Dennis Cooper, Kathy Acker, and Eileen Myles...

, Molly Bendall, Gayle Brandeis

Gayle Brandeis

Gayle Brandeis is the author of Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write , Dictionary Poems , the novels The Book of Dead Birds , which won Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize for Fiction in Support of a Literature of Social Change, Self Storage and Delta Girls , and her first...

, Leonard Chang

Leonard Chang

Leonard Chang is a Korean American writer of short stories and novels.His short stories have appeared in a variety of literary journals including The Crescent Review, The Literary Review, and Prairie Schooner...

, Susan Taylor Chehak, Richard Garcia, Sharman Apt Russell

Sharman Apt Russell

Sharman Apt Russell is a nature and science writer from New Mexico, United States. Her topics include living in place, public lands grazing, archaeology, flowers, butterflies, hunger, and Pantheism...

, Alma Luz Villanueva

Alma Luz Villanueva

Alma Luz Villanueva is a Mexican-American poet, short story writer, and novelist.-Life:Her Mexican grandfather edited a newspaper in Hermosillo, Mexico, and was a published poet...

 and Terry Wolverton

Terry Wolverton

Terry Wolverton is an American novelist, memoirist, poet, and editor. Her book Insurgent Muse: Life and art at the Woman’s Building, a memoir published in 2002 by City Lights Books, was named one of the “Best Books of 2002” by the Los Angeles Times, and was the winner of the 2003 Publishing...

. Each MFA Residency includes distinguished guest writers, as well as literary agents and editors. Some recent guests include Steve Almond

Steve Almond

Steve Almond is an American short story writer and essayist. He is the author of eight books.-Life:He was raised in Palo Alto, California, and graduated from Henry M. Gunn High School. He received his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University. He spent seven years as a newspaper reporter,...

, Charles Baxter

Charles Baxter

Charles Baxter is an American author of fiction, nonfiction and poetry.-Life:Baxter was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to John and Mary Barber Baxter. He graduated from Macalester College in Saint Paul, and taught high school in Pinconning, Michigan, for a year. In 1974 he received his Ph.D...

, Aimee Bender

Aimee Bender

Aimee Bender is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her surreal plots and characters.-Biography:Bender received her undergraduate degree from the University of California at San Diego, and a Master of Fine Arts from the distinguished creative writing MFA program at University of...

, Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom is an American writer. She has been nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.-Biography:...

, Ron Carlson

Ron Carlson

-Life:Carlson was born in Logan, Utah, and grew up in Salt Lake City. He received a masters degree in English from the University of Utah. He then taught at The Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, where he began his first novel....

, Marilyn Chin

Marilyn Chin

Marilyn Chin is an American poet who grew up in Portland, Oregon, after her family immigrated from Hong Kong. She received an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. Her awards include two National Endowment for the Arts grants, the Stegner Fellowship, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award,...

, Bernard Cooper

Bernard Cooper

Bernard Cooper is an American novelist and short story writer. He was born on October 3, 1951 in Hollywood, California.His writing is in part autobiographical and influenced by his own experiences as a gay man....

, Percival Everett

Percival Everett

Percival Everett is an American writer and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.-Life:Everett lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife, novelist Danzy Senna and their two sons....

, B. H. Fairchild

B. H. Fairchild

B.H. Fairchild is an award-winning American poet and former college professor. His most recent book is Usher , and his poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, Poetry, TriQuarterly, The Hudson Review, Salmagundi, The...

, Thomas French

Thomas French

Thomas French is an American journalist. He worked for the St. Petersburg Times from 1981 until he took early retirement to teach in 2008...

, Diana Hume George, Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert

-Life and career:Born and raised in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania neighborhood of East Liberty, he attended Peabody High School then worked as a door-to-door salesman, an exterminator, and a steelworker...

, Kate Haake, Donald Hall

Donald Hall

Donald Hall is an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2006.-Personal life:...

, Sam Hamill, Jonathan Hirsch, Michelle Huneven

Michelle Huneven

Michelle Huneven is a Californian novelist and journalist. Huneven was born and raised in Altadena, California, where she returned to live in 2001. She received an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa.- Fiction :...

, Tyehimba Jess

Tyehimba Jess

Tyehimba Jess is an American poet.-Life:He graduated from the University of Chicago, and New York University, with an MFA. He teaches poetry and fiction at CUNY College of Staten Island and is the faculty adviser for Caesura, the university's literary arts magazine.His work appeared in Soul...

, Judith Kitchen, David Kipen, Dale Maharidge

Dale Maharidge

Dale Maharidge is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist best known for his collaborations with photographer Michael Williamson....

, Valerie Miner

Valerie Miner

Valerie Miner is an American novelist, journalist, and professor.-Biography:Valerie Miner is the award-winning author of thirteen books. Her novels include After Eden, Range of Light, A Walking Fire, Winter's Edge, Blood Sisters, All Good Women, Movement: A Novel in Stories, and Murder in the...

, Nila NorthSun

Nila northSun

is a Native American poet and tribal historian, one of the best-known figures in the Native American Renaissance. Her gritty, realistic poems about life both on and off the reservation have made her one of the most widely read of all Native American poets....

, Josip Novakovich

Josip Novakovich

Josip Novakovich is a Croatian American writer.His grandparents had immigrated from the Croatia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to Cleveland, Ohio, and, after the First World War, his grandfather returned to what had become Yugoslavia...

, Achy Obejas

Achy Obejas

Achy Obejas is a Cuban American writer and journalist focused on personal and national identity issues, living in Chicago, Illinois.-Life and career:Obejas was born June 28, 1956 in Havana, Cuba...

, Scott Russell Sanders, Mona Simpson

Mona Simpson

Mona E. Simpson is an American author. She is a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Sadie Samuelson Levy Professor in Languages and Literature at Bard College. She won the Whiting Prize for her first novel, Anywhere but Here...

, Kazuko Sugisaki, Alexis Smith

Alexis Smith

Alexis Smith was a Canadian-born stage, film, and television actress. She appeared in several major Hollywood movies in the 1940s and had a notable career on Broadway in the 1970s, winning a Tony Award in 1972.-Life and career:...

, David St. John

David St. John

-Biography:Born in Fresno, California, he was educated at California State University, Fresno, where he studied with poet Philip Levine, and at the University of Iowa, receiving an M.F.A. in 1974...

, and Sandra Tsing Loh

Sandra Tsing Loh

Sandra Tsing Loh is a Los Angeles, California-based writer, actress, performance-artist, pop-culture analyst, and radio commentator.-Biography:Loh is the daughter of a Chinese father and a German mother...

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Education Department

Antioch University Los Angeles http://antiochla.edu/academics/education-department offers a Master of Arts in Education or Teacher Credentialing program. The curriculum prepares teachers and provides the skills and knowledge in leadership for education reform. The program is a half time, 6 quarter Master of Arts in Education that utilizes small classes and narrative grading.

Program Chair J. Cynthia McDermott, Ed.D. Core Faculty: Fred Chapel, Ed.D.; Richard Kahn, Ph.D.

Richard V. Kahn

Richard Kahn is Core Faculty in Education at Antioch University Los Angeles, where he specializes in ecopedagogy, a form of education for sustainability...

External links

• Antioch University Los Angeles website
• Bridge Program website