Antioch University Santa Barbara
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Antioch University Santa Barbara (AUSB) is a private liberal arts
university in Santa Barbara, California
. It is part of the Antioch University
system that includes campuses in Keene, New Hampshire
; Seattle, Washington; Los Angeles, California
; and Yellow Springs, Ohio
, also home to Antioch College
. Antioch University has operated in Santa Barbara since 1977.
was established in 1852 in Yellow Springs, Ohio
. Horace Mann
, educator, social reformer, abolitionist, and one of the creators of the US public school system was its first president
. Mann's goal, which he achieved, was to create a university that would be nonsectarian
, coeducational, and that did not utilize a conventional grading system. In 1863, Antioch approved a policy that no applicant was to be rejected on the basis of race. It was also among the first colleges to offer the same curriculum to men and women students.
In 1963 the College began to expand out-of-state. A network of schools was begun. In 1977 Antioch College renamed itself Antioch University
and opened the Santa Barbara campus that year.
, and creative, critical and independent thinking."
The Values Statement of the AUSB states that "We value and commit to model in our lives and our work ... an intellectual climate that acknowledges the ... need to promote social change
."
(BA
) degree in Liberal Studies, in which "adult students engage in a wide range of learning activities" with academic work taking place in various settings including on-campus classes, schools, health agencies, art organizations, businesses, and other community settings. In addition the university awards a Master of Arts
(MA) in Clinical Psychology
. The university offers a Master of Arts in Education
with additional course work for Teacher Credential Program, a Multiple-Subject Teaching Credential, a Social Justice
and Educational Leadership Emphasis, Educational Specialist
Mild/Moderate Credential, and Educational Specialist Mild/Moderate Curriculum Design. It also offers PsyD in Clinical Psychology
. The university is planning for a Master of Fine Arts
(MFA
) in Writing for Visual Media program, focusing on screenplay
writing, playwriting, creative writing
, and creative non-fiction.
, sexual orientation
, professional backgrounds, and community experiences." The average student age is 35. More than 70% receive some form of financial aid. The University partners with AmeriCorps
by matching up to $5,000 with its Segal Education Scholarship for service as an AmeriCorps graduate.
Liberal arts
The term liberal arts refers to those subjects which in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free citizen to study. Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic were the core liberal arts. In medieval times these subjects were extended to include mathematics, geometry, music and astronomy...
university in 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...
. It is part of the 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...
system that includes campuses in 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; 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...
; and 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...
, also home to 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...
. Antioch University has operated in Santa Barbara since 1977.
History
Antioch CollegeAntioch 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 established 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...
, educator, social reformer, abolitionist, and one of the creators of the US public school system was its first president
President
A president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership...
. Mann's goal, which he achieved, was to create a university that would be nonsectarian
Nonsectarian
Nonsectarian, in its most literal sense, refers to a lack of sectarianism. The term is also more narrowly used to describe secular private educational institutions or other organizations either not affiliated with or not restricted to a particular religious denomination though the organization...
, coeducational, and that did not utilize a conventional grading system. In 1863, Antioch approved a policy that no applicant was to be rejected on the basis of race. It was also among the first colleges to offer the same curriculum to men and women students.
In 1963 the College began to expand out-of-state. A network of schools was begun. In 1977 Antioch College renamed itself 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...
and opened the Santa Barbara campus that year.
Approach and Values
The university's mission includes its educational approach: "The development of the student as a whole person, the integration of academic and experiential learningExperiential learning
Experiential learning is the process of making meaning from direct experience. Simply put, Experiential Learning is learning from experience. The experience can be staged or left open. Aristotle once said, "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." David A...
, and creative, critical and independent thinking."
The Values Statement of the AUSB states that "We value and commit to model in our lives and our work ... an intellectual climate that acknowledges the ... need to promote social change
Social change
Social change refers to an alteration in the social order of a society. It may refer to the notion of social progress or sociocultural evolution, the philosophical idea that society moves forward by dialectical or evolutionary means. It may refer to a paradigmatic change in the socio-economic...
."
Programs
Degree programs include the Bachelor of ArtsBachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
(BA
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
) degree in Liberal Studies, in which "adult students engage in a wide range of learning activities" with academic work taking place in various settings including on-campus classes, schools, health agencies, art organizations, businesses, and other community settings. In addition the university awards a Master of Arts
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...
(MA) in Clinical Psychology
Clinical psychology
Clinical psychology is an integration of science, theory and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically-based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development...
. The university offers a Master of Arts in Education
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
with additional course work for Teacher Credential Program, a Multiple-Subject Teaching Credential, a Social Justice
Social justice
Social justice generally refers to the idea of creating a society or institution that is based on the principles of equality and solidarity, that understands and values human rights, and that recognizes the dignity of every human being. The term and modern concept of "social justice" was coined by...
and Educational Leadership Emphasis, Educational Specialist
Educational Specialist
The Education Specialist, also referred to as Educational Specialist, Specialist in Education, or Ed.S., is an advanced academic degree in the U.S...
Mild/Moderate Credential, and Educational Specialist Mild/Moderate Curriculum Design. It also offers PsyD in Clinical Psychology
Clinical psychology
Clinical psychology is an integration of science, theory and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically-based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development...
. The university is planning for a Master of Fine Arts
Master of Fine Arts
A Master of Fine Arts is a graduate degree typically requiring 2–3 years of postgraduate study beyond the bachelor's degree , although the term of study will vary by country or by university. The MFA is usually awarded in visual arts, creative writing, filmmaking, dance, or theatre/performing arts...
(MFA
Master of Fine Arts
A Master of Fine Arts is a graduate degree typically requiring 2–3 years of postgraduate study beyond the bachelor's degree , although the term of study will vary by country or by university. The MFA is usually awarded in visual arts, creative writing, filmmaking, dance, or theatre/performing arts...
) in Writing for Visual Media program, focusing on screenplay
Screenplay
A screenplay or script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. In them, the movement, actions, expression, and dialogues of the characters are also narrated...
writing, playwriting, creative writing
Creative writing
Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction, poetry, or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature. Works which fall into this category include novels, epics, short stories, and poems...
, and creative non-fiction.
Students
Students are primarily adults who are either returning to school or who are planning for career change. University policy states that it seeks "qualified candidates who will contribute to building a student body diverse in gender, ethnicity, age, class, physical differences, learning stylesLearning styles
Learning styles are various approaches or ways of learning. They involve educating methods, particular to an individual, that are presumed to allow that individual to learn best. Most people prefer an identifiable method of interacting with, taking in, and processing stimuli or information...
, sexual orientation
Sexual orientation
Sexual orientation describes a pattern of emotional, romantic, or sexual attractions to the opposite sex, the same sex, both, or neither, and the genders that accompany them. By the convention of organized researchers, these attractions are subsumed under heterosexuality, homosexuality,...
, professional backgrounds, and community experiences." The average student age is 35. More than 70% receive some form of financial aid. The University partners with AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps is a U.S. federal government program that was created under President Bill Clinton by the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993 and later expanded by 50 percent under President George W. Bush...
by matching up to $5,000 with its Segal Education Scholarship for service as an AmeriCorps graduate.
Faculty
There are more than 100 core and adjunct members of the faculty. Many work part-time for the university and spend the majority of their time working in their fields and professions. The university's policy on this is that "These faculty members resonate with Antioch’s values and create classrooms with authentic voices and appreciation for all perspectives. We allow our faculty members to craft unique classes that match their expertise and offer flexibility in how and where students experience their learning."Other Campus links
- Antioch University McGregor website
- Antioch University Seattle website
- Antioch University New England website
- Antioch University Los Angeles website
- Antioch PhD Program
- Antioch Education Abroad
- website for The Bridge Program - educational outreach through Antioch University Los Angeles
- Integral Knowledge Systems at Antioch University McGregor website