The Antioch College Community

The Antioch College Community is defined as students, staff, and faculty currently enrolled in or employed at the college. Together we work to fulfill our mission and live our vision every day both inside and outside the classroom.

Antioch College attracts students from throughout the United States, including Ohio, New York, California, Texas, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Florida. Most students who attend Antioch College complete rigorous secondary education, including International Baccalaureate, Advanced Placement, and honors programs.

Our students are National Merit Scholar finalists and semifinalists, accomplished artists and musicians, and serious scholars. Many students who come to Antioch College have completed some college coursework prior to applying to Antioch College, spent some time studying or traveling abroad, or speak at least one foreign language. Current students speak Spanish, Japanese, and French. The College is proud of its record of recruiting students from a wide variety of backgrounds, orientations, and interests.

A large number of students have done work in sustainability. Their biographies include stints farming in developing countries, working in agriculture and biodiversity, village construction and environmental conservation in Central America and South America, and organic farming in South America. Their academic interests are also wide ranging: ecological or sustainable architecture, sustainability and rural development, animation, African American studies, creative writing, philosophy, literature, and more.

Through engagement with all aspects of campus life, students have the opportunity to practice deliberative action, intercultural awareness, social engagement, and strategies of sustainability. This learning is linked in a holistic way to classroom study, cooperative education, and community experience.

Like the students at Antioch College, faculty and staff represent diverse backgrounds, interests, and fields of study. Within the faculty there are practicing artists and scholars representing cutting edge work in diverse disciplines. Students and faculty interact both in and out of the classroom; in project based learning, in the dining hall over shared meals, through the advising process, and at our weekly Community Meetings. These opportunities for conversation outside of the formal conventions of the classroom create opportunities for all members of the community to learn from one another

The staff and faculty at Antioch are comprised of nationally searched tenure track professors and administrators, the local Yellow Springs community members, and past college employees who bring a rich and nuanced understanding of our enterprise. Legacy and history are important components of the new Antioch. Also important are the creative innovations that result from authentic participation on the part of members of our current community.