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MAT Alum Jason Moss is Madrona Elementary Teacher of the Year
Jason Moss, an alum of the AUS School of Education’s MAT Program, received the “Teacher of the Year” award at Madrona Elementary for the 2018-19 school year. The recipient of this award is recognized...
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UEE Alums Speak Their Truth at Story Collider Event
On an evening in late June, James King, Stephanie Ung, and Rasheena Fountain, three alumni of AUS’s Urban Environmental Education (UEE) program, told moving and personal stories of family, race, and...
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AUS Presence at Seattle Pride for LGBTQIA+ Rights
Thanks to volunteers from the AUS LGBTQIA+ student group, AUS had an outreach booth at Seattle PrideFest, an annual tradition in the Seattle area. This year on Sunday, June 30, 2019, our booth...
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Tiffany Adams Alum of Urban Environmental Education MAEd Program Featured in...
Rare Birder Sightings: Bird-watching is Booming, Yet Black birders are as Rare a Bird as Exists. by Glenn Nelson Tiffany Adams is an alum of the Urban Environmental Education M.A.Ed. program at Antioch...
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Durgan Leads Series on Community Response to Meth in Winnipeg
Edward Durgan, PhD, is the academic director of Antioch University Seattle’s Clemente Veteran’s Initiative, which offers free college courses to veterans, and a Seattle-based psychotherapist and...
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School of Education Alumni and Faculty Attend KUOW Event
A number of School of Education faculty and alumni attended a journalist happy hour event at KUOW, Seattle’s public radio station. The event was designed for members of the KUOW newsroom to meet...
View ArticleManuela Syle Quoted in The Seattle Times on “School to Prison Pipeline”
Manuela Slye, a member of the AUS School of Education’s Committee of Community Advisors (CCA), was recently quoted in The Seattle Times, speaking with journalists about a white Van Asselt Elementary...
View ArticleManuela Slye Highlighted in Extended Interview in The Seattle Times
Manuela Slye has been in the news a great deal this summer! Slye, a member of the AUS School of Education’s Committee of Community Advisors (CCA), was quoted in The Seattle Times earlier this summer...
View ArticleAUS PsyD Students and Faculty at the 2019 APA Convention in Chicago
The AUS PsyD in Clinical Psychology students and faculty were very well represented at the American Psychological Association’s (APA) 2019 national convention in Chicago this August. The APA is “the...
View ArticleRead the Summer 2019 PsyD Newsletter
The AUS PsyD Newsletter Summer 2019 newsletter is now available. In this issue, read the faculty profile of Dr. Dana Waters. Also enjoy pictures of AUS students at the recent American Psychological...
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Faculty member B.J. Bullert’s art imitates her life—in both, she works to...
Filmmaker BJ Bullert, Photo Credit: Joseph Hudson A core faculty member in the Undergraduate Studies program at Antioch University Seattle, B.J. Bullert is also a communication scholar and documentary...
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Faculty Caryn Park Co-Edited Special Issue of Journal of “Young Exceptional...
Teaching Faculty in the School of Education Caryn Park and UW faculty Margaret Beneke co-edited a special issue of the journal “Young Exceptional Children” (YEC) from “The Division of Exceptional...
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First ARTC Celebrates Graduation
The graduation ceremony for the first Alternative Route to Teacher Certification (ARTC) cohort was held on August 13 in the board room of the Kent School District. The board room was filled to...
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Dr. Mark R. Jones to Present Keynote at Responsible Business Summit
Dr. Mark Jones will the present at the Responsible Business Summit in San Diego, CA on October 10, 2019. His presentation is Diversity & Inclusion Keynote: Leading beyond the Financials. Jones...
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Education for All
When most people think of a classroom, they have a picture in their mind–and it isn’t usually of a correctional facility. Yet that’s exactly where Dr. Rachel Oppenheim, Director of the School of...
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Seattle Public Library Screens B.J. Bullert’s Space Needle Film, Hosts Space...
Photo Credit: Dale Cotton Antioch University Seattle undergraduate program core faculty member B.J. Bullert is passionate about the iconic Space Needle’s lesser-known history– so passionate that she...
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Dr. Dana Waters: An Advocate for Girls and Women with Autism
Dr. Dana Waters, Associate Chair of the PsyD program and core faculty, knew she wanted to make a difference for others when she began her graduate work at the Adler School of Professional Psychology,...
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Dr. Jude Bergkamp Receives Distinguished Psychologist of the Year Award
Dr. Jude Bergkamp, Antioch University Seattle core faculty and PsyD program chair, was honored with the Distinguished Psychologist of the Year award from the Washington State Psychological Association...
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Dr. Mariaimeé Gonzalez Publishes Book “Social Justice and Advocacy in...
After years of extensive research on social justice and advocacy, Mariaimeé Gonzalez, PhD, LPC, core faculty in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program and coordinator of the multicultural...
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Rasheena Fountain Featured on KBCS Broadcast
Rasheena Fountain, an alumna of the Urban Environmental Education program was recently featured in a KBCS interview titled “More Than One Kind of Nature,” which discusses what shapes our view of the...
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AUS Counseling Department Sponsors and Presents at the National ACES Conference
The Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) is a leading institution within the education and counseling space. The members involved in such an organization find interest in aiding...
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AUS Alum Nichole Klocksiem and PsyD Faculty Dr. Dana Waters Participate in...
AUS Masters of Teaching alumna Nichole Klocksiem organized a panel called Queer and Geeky Educators Q&A for GeekGirlCon, an event that empowers girls to pursue their “geeky’ passions, whatever they...
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School of Education Hosts Social Emotional Learning Workshop
The School of Education recently hosted a powerful, interactive event focused on Social Emotional Learning. Attended by over 50 faculty, students, and alumni, the event was titled, “Orienting Social...
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School of Education Honors MAT Graduates
The School of Education recently held a graduation ceremony and celebration for the Fall 2018 Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT) cohort. The room was filled with over 70 faculty, staff, family members,...
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Andrew Parsons Receives Teacher of the Year Award
Andrew Parsons, an alum of the AUS School of Education’s Alternative Route to Teacher Certification (ARTC) Program, received the “Teacher of the Year” award at Park Orchard Elementary School in the...
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Faculty Deb Kachel Organizes Rally to Restore Previously Cut School Librarian...
Antioch Affiliate Faculty, Deb Kachel, Pennsylvania School Librarians Association (PSLA) Advocacy Committee Co-Chair, was a key organizer of a rally at the School District of Philadelphia PA...
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Multicultural Children’s Literature Celebration 2020
Featured Author/Illustrator: R. Gregory Christie Antioch University Seattle School of Education is hosting two community events as part of their Multicultural Children’s Literature Celebration. This...
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PsyD Faculty Present at the National Council of Schools of Professional...
AUS PsyD in Clinical Psychology faculty Drs. Jude Bergkamp, Chris Heffner, Michael Toohey, and Dana Waters presented at the National Council of Schools of Professional Psychology (NCSPP) Conference...
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Oppenheim Participates in Annual “Day on the Hill” Event
Rachel Oppenheim, Director of the School of Education, participated in a “Day on the Hill” event along with other members of the Washington Association for Colleges of Teacher Education (WACTE)....
View ArticleThe 2020 Winter AUS PsyD Newsletter is Here
The Winter 2020 edition of the AUS PsyD Newsletter opens with a Faculty Spotlight on Dr. Melissa Kennedy, who explains “I grew up in the Midwest, but now I’m from Seattle. It’s really my home.” Dr....
View ArticleAUS Update: Coronavirus and the AUS Campus
Dear AUS Community: We continue to watch the Coronavirus situation as it develops in Washington State. You may have seen news reports about the possibility that there are more cases of Coronavirus in...
View ArticleCOVID-19 and Antioch Seattle: Student Update, 3.5.20
Dear Antioch University Seattle Student: As you know, the situation with the COVID-19 (“Coronavirus”) is getting more acute in the Seattle area. I’ve received a number of emails from students and...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Update, Antioch Seattle, 3/8/20
Dear Antioch Community: I want to thank you for your collaborative and positive response to our institutional approach to the covid-19 situation in the Seattle area. Faculty have been responsive and...
View ArticleCampus Services at AUS – Provost Update
Dear AUS Community: While Antioch’s Seattle campus is no longer open for classes (except by arrangement) until the start of the spring quarter, we will maintain business hours (8 a.m. – 6 p.m.) for...
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Sarah Bethel: Putting Food on the Table and Fostering Connections with School...
Sarah Bethel has moved from coast to coast. She studied environmental studies at the University of Oregon, traveled up and down the West Coast doing service projects as a part of AmeriCorps, and taught...
View ArticleAntioch University Seattle Library Service Update 3/18/2020
Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff, Due to growing practices related to Coronavirus (COVID-19), beginning Thursday, March 19, the Antioch University Seattle Library will be closed until further notice....
View ArticleAntioch Campus Facilities Closure Through April 30, 2020 – Antioch University...
Dear Antioch Community: Please see the notice below. I will follow up tomorrow with faculty, staff, and students with some ideas about our way forward and some updates, especially about how to connect...
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Christie Kaaland is Guest Editor of “Knowledge Quest”
Christie Kaaland, Core Faculty in the School of Education, was invited by the American Association of School Librarians, a division of the American Library Association to be the guest editor of the...
View ArticleSeattle Student Life Update
Hi Everyone, First off, we want to let you know we will be hosting a virtual student meeting with the Provost, Ben Pryor, next Friday, April 3rd from 3-4 pm. This will be an opportunity for students...
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6 Skills to Cope with the Mental Toll of Sheltering in Place
an interview with Dr. Katherine Fort The writer Ernest Hemingway famously said that there were two ways to go bankrupt: “Gradually, then suddenly.” He might also have been describing the ways life has...
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Embracing the “New Normal”
Library Media Endorsement Program Teachers and Students Use Technology to Help Learning Thrive, Despite Covid-19 With all of the benefits of bringing more technology into their virtual libraries and...
View ArticleAU Seattle Campus Update
Greetings Students: We are a few weeks away from the mid-point of our quarter, and I would like to thank you for your perseverance, your commitment to Antioch and to your program of study. I know it is...
View ArticleCARES Funds – AUS Students
Dear Antioch Student: One aspect of our University’s commitment to the common good and to the nurturing of a positive learning environment is doing our part to support student safety and security. The...
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Learning Through Cupcakes: Baker Hopes to Spread Kitchen Knowledge
by Jasper Henderson “I think I’ve always just loved making cupcakes for people,” says Niallah Cooper-Scruggs, a graduate student at Antioch University Seattle. This love began the day her mom taught...
View ArticleThe School Librarian Investigation—Decline or Evolution?
Antioch University Seattle has been awarded a $348,905, three-year grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to examine the nationwide decline in school librarian positions and...
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Antioch Clinic to Provide FREE Statewide Telebehavioral Health Services to...
Low cost sliding scale counseling also available to those facing financial challenges. The Antioch University Seattle Community Counseling and Psychology Clinic is providing no-fee counseling and...
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Kristin Leong: Building Bridges for Self-discovery
Photo credit: Keri Zierler, 2020 In the groundbreaking film, Black Panther (2018), one of the standout quotes spoken by King T’Challa is this: But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the...
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Research Team Presents Workshop on Social Privilege
Bringing awareness to self-identity and privilege, Dr. Jude Bergkamp, Chair of Antioch Seattle’s Clinical Psychology Department, led a virtual workshop titled “Orbiting Social Privilege: The Gravity of...
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Serving Community at a Distance: the Women’s Education Program Adapts to the...
When the Women’s Education Program opened at Antioch University Seattle twenty-two years ago, its mission was simple: to provide a weekly hot breakfast and space of support—and art materials—for women...
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Faculty Participate in National Conversations on Social Responsiveness
Dr. Kathi Borden and Dr. Jude Bergkamp, two of Antioch’s psychology faculty, participated this September in an intensive two-day conference about increasing social responsiveness in health service...
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