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Antioch College was insolvent the day it opened and faced financial difficulties from its first years. [30] From 1857 to 1859, Antioch ran an annual deficit of $5,000 [c] out of a total budget of $13,000. [d] [31] In 1858, Antioch was bankrupt. Mann died in 1859, and the college was reorganized, but deficits continued. [31]
In 1977, Antioch College changed its name to "Antioch University", having extended its operations beyond the college and beyond Ohio, mostly in graduate level programs. [ 5 ] In the early 1850s, Rebecca Pennell offered a course on teaching methods which was the first of its kind, and John Burns Weston, class of 1857, established a long-standing ...
Antioch College was founded in 1852 as a progressive non-sectarian and co-educational institution of higher learning. Antioch's first president was Horace Mann, the revolutionary educational philosopher whose famous quote, "Be Ashamed To Die Until You Have Won Some Victory For Mankind," is still spoken annually at all Antioch University commencement ceremonies.
Horace Mann, founding president of Antioch College and "father of American education" Arthur Ernest Morgan, president of Antioch and chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority; Edward Orton, Sr., first president of the Ohio State University; Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, author and educator; Cecil Taylor, pianist and poet, pioneer of free jazz
Antioch Hall, North and South Halls are a group of historic buildings on the campus of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States. They were the college's three original buildings, [ 3 ] and were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Greene County, Ohio in 1975.
Antioch High School is obscured by trees, but emergency personnel were still onsite after a student shot and killed a girl, injured a boy and later fatally shot himself in the school's cafeteria ...
Westminster College [16] 1853: Antioch College [17] Cornell College (originally Iowa Conference Seminary, co-ed classes start with founding 1853) [18] Lawrence University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1849) [19] Monmouth College (admits women on equal basis from beginning) [20] Willamette University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1842 ...
The troubled Antioch Police Department faces another blow, as a second police officer was convicted last week in a scheme to fraudulently obtain college degrees for higher pay.. Morteza Amiri, 33 ...