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Antioch College is a private liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio.It was founded in 1850 by the Christian Connection and began operating in 1852 as a non-sectarian institution; politician and education reformer Horace Mann was its first president.
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 ...
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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 College's expansion beyond its Yellow Springs campus began in the late 1950s.Expansion accelerated in earnest in the mid-1960s when Antioch College President James P. Dixon encouraged the establishment of a series of branch campuses and centers (part of the University Without Walls movement [3] [4]) with the idea of extending the impact of Antioch’s innovative educational ideas.
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.
Antioch School of Law was run under the auspices of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, [1] long a pioneer in educational innovation, which, at various points in its history, operated as many as 32 separate entities in several states, [2] as well as abroad as part of the Antioch Network.
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.