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Antioch College

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Antioch College, at Yellow Springs, Ohio; coeducational; chartered 1852, opened 1853. Horace Mann Mann, Horace , 1796–1859, American educator, b. Franklin, Mass. He received a sparse preliminary schooling, but succeeded in entering Brown in the sophomore class and graduated with honors in 1819.
..... Click the link for more information. , Antioch's first president, envisioned a program stressing the development not only of the intellect but of the whole personality, especially the individual's social conscience and competence. The cooperative work-study program, adopted in 1921, has been developed in an attempt to achieve this goal. The program is divided between off-campus work and on-campus study. Students are given a voice in community government, college policy formulation, and other administrative affairs. The college has several experimental and research centers and maintains its own foreign study program. Antioch Review is published there. Antioch College is now part of the larger Antioch Univ. (1978), which includes Antioch New England, Antioch Southern California, Antioch Seattle, and the McGregor School.
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