ANTIOCH COLLEGE - Key Persons
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Property Management Staff Member
- Trustee
Ace Xavier Portis is building the philanthropic heart. By connecting people to what they are passionate about, Ace Xavier helps people, organizations, and coalitions actualize their mission. As a Movement Resourcer, Gender Subverter, Expansive Strategist, Joy Mandator, and Radical Lover, with a Striking Aesthetic, he believes that philanthropy is key to our collective liberation.
An Atlanta transplant and Southern Gentlethem, Ace Xavier has strong Alabama roots, and has called many places home in between. Throughout his career, Ace Xavier has dedicated his life to queer/trans freedom, politics, education, youth, and overall intersectional social justice. They bring several years of fundraising, project management, community and organizational development, event management, and resource strategy experience, with a commitment to decolonized and inclusive philanthropy.
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- HR Generalist
- HR Generalist / Finance Human Resources
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- Payroll & Benefits Manager
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- Advancement Services Specialist
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- Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning Program Chair
Prior to joining Antioch College Amy Osborne was the director for the Institute for Learning Differences at Thomas More College. She has also held appointments at the University of Cincinnati, Southern New Hampshire University, and Pikeville College. Amy has had a variety of teaching experiences working with college students in the areas of mathematics, statistics, and quantitative research methods for the education and social sciences. Presently pursing a PhD in Psychology, she is interested in cognitive and affective variables and their relationship to learning, particularly college mathematics. Additionally, she has used her passion for teaching to teach students of all ages interested in areas such as glass-blowing and the ecology of pollinators, such as honey bees. At present she is completing a grant cycle to fund Pollination Stations in and around the south-central Ohio region. When not teaching she can be found spending time with her family, cooking, and working in the apiary.
EDUCATION
2012-Present Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, AZ
Pursuing PhD in Psychology-Cognition & Learning
2003-2008 University Of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Graduate courses in Education, Mathematics, and Art
1994-1996 Eastern Kentucky University
1999-2000 Richmond, KY
MS Mathematics (emphasis in Statistics)
1997-1999 Morehead State University
2001-2002 Morehead, KY
Graduate courses in Education and Art
1992-1994 Morehead State University, Morehead, KY
BS Mathematics, Physics
1990-1992 Ashland Community College, Ashland, KY
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- Operations Manager, Wellness Center
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- Executive Assistant
- President
- Property Management Staff Member
- Executive Assistant to the Office of the President and the Board of Trustees
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- Property Management Staff Member
- Associate Director of Gender Equity Programs & Education ( SOPP / Title IX Coordinator )
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- Resident Life Coordinator
- Student Affairs
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- Member of the Honorary Members of the Board
- Trustee
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- Member of the Honorary Members of the Board
- Trustee
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- Student Success Services Coordinator
- Student Success Services Coordinator / Center for Academic Support Services First CARE Student Affairs
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- Cooperative Education and Sustainable Practice
Beth has been a faculty member at Antioch College since 2013. With a background in regenerative agriculture, experiential education and sustainable practice, she teaches co-op field classes as well as courses in agrarian systems, reskilling and resilience, plant medicine, seed-saving, harvest preservation, and commensality, utilizing the Antioch Farm and campus as learning laboratories.
Her pedagogy includes peer-to-peer teaching and co-constructed learning within a democratic educational framework, creating opportunities for student-centered integrative learning in communities of practice.
Beth's co-op focus areas include regenerative agriculture, sustainable practice, environmental science, biomedical science, and alternative education, as well as opportunities in Japan. She is co-op liaison to the science division.
A recipient of a faculty excellence award from the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education, she is also an Oral History in the Liberal Arts Faculty Fellow, receiving funding for her project "Re-establishing a Seed Commons through Oral History Methodology" with support from the Great Lakes College Association Mellon-funded Oral History in the Liberal Arts initiative. Her "Pedagogies of Nature: Shinto, Spiritual Ecology, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge" research project, postponed due to continued Japan travel restrictions, received National Endowment for the Arts funding through the Great Lakes College Association Japan Travel Grant.
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- Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students
William (Bill) Fox, EdD has worked in higher education for over twenty years and currently leads the student affairs division at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. As Vice President of Student Affairs & Dean of Students he oversees health and counseling services, student success, residence life, student conduct, orientation programs, and gender equity (Title IX) on the campus and sustains effective collaborative partnerships with local wellness organizations including the YWCA-Dayton and Family Violence Prevention Center of Greene County. Prior to arriving at Antioch, he served in a variety of leadership roles at Denison University since 2007, including nine years as Dean of Students, where he created networks and systems that supported student success and community well-being. Dr. Fox received his BA from James Madison University, MA from The Ohio State University, Executive Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Georgetown University, and doctorate in higher education management from the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on the emergence of senior wellness officer roles in US higher education and ways leaders can create organizational cultures that promote well-being. In 2021, Fox published an article "Making the Case for a University Senior Wellness Officer" in the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice. He serves as the Advisory Board Chair for the National Consortium for Building Healthy Academic Communities and as the Don Schweingruber Senior Student Affairs Officer on the Board of the Ohio College Personnel Association. Bill is enthusiastic about working alongside students and colleagues to build a healthy academic community at Antioch College, and he values the importance of a vibrant and inclusive residential life program that enhances student academic success and meaningful connections within the community.
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- Vice President of Finance & Administration
Brandon Hough comes to Antioch College with a diverse background. Brandon began his career with the U.S. Air Force serving as a Contracting Officer at Wright-Patterson AFB. After his time in the Air Force he led the operations for 25 mass participation events in southern California for Spectrum Sports with clients that included runDisney, the Anaheim Angels, and the 2015 Special Olympics World Games. Brandon moved back to the area in 2017 and took over as the director of the U.S. Air Force Marathon. During his tenure at the Air Force Marathon Brandon increased the size of the staff by 50%, partnered with the U.S. Space Force to launch the inaugural T-Minus 10-Miler at Cape Canaveral, and nearly doubled the amount of sponsorship revenue the organization brought in. He has won numerous awards for his work to include being named a Dayton 40 under 40 and was selected as the 2020 Running USA Rising Star.
Brandon has a passion for education having received a B.S. in Economics from the U.S. Air Force Academy, a M.Ed in Sports Administration from Xavier University, a graduate leadership certificate from the University of Dayton, and is currently in his second year of study at the Indiana University O'Neill School of Environmental & Public Affairs where he is earning his MPA in Nonprofit Management. Brandon is actively involved in numerous non-profits. He serves as the president of the Beavercreek Rotary Club, he is the secretary and additionally serves on the fundraising committee for the Beaver Creek Wetlands Association, and he serves as a trustee and governance & bylaws committee member for Running USA.
In his free time, Brandon is a lifelong runner with a lifetime best of 2:33 in the marathon, he can often be spotted running around Yellow Springs. Brandon is married to Dr. Ashley Hough who shared with him her love of nature. The two of them take every opportunity to visit parks and explore nature where they seek out new species of native flora and fauna. In addition, while Ashley enjoys birds, Brandon is an avid birder and has identified 300 bird species to date. Brandon and Ashley reside in Yellow Springs and welcomed their son Hunter to the world in the spring of 2022.
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- Vice President for Academic Affairs
As Vice President for Academic Affairs (VPAA), Brian reports to the President and works closely with faculty and other community members to provide strategic leadership for Antioch College's academic programs, personnel, and academic resources, including primary responsibility for the Office of Academic Affairs, Cooperative Education, Registrar, Olive Kettering Library, Herndon Art Gallery, Antioch Review, Writing Institute, and all faculty. The VPAA serves on the President's Council and Community Council, collaborates with the Executive Faculty Committee, and supports the Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees.
Brian most recently served as the inaugural Dean of the Gwen Ifill College of Media, Arts, and Humanities at Simmons University in Boston. He worked with faculty and other community partners to build the mission, vision, and values for one of four new interdisciplinary colleges as part of a university strategic plan focused on "Academic Redesign" to bring together graduate and undergraduate education across the professions and liberal education.
Prior to his role at Simmons, Brian was Associate Vice President for Faculty Affairs and Diversity at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore where he oversaw faculty development, faculty governance, and academic diversity initiatives.
Brian states, "I am drawn to the good work to be done at Antioch. This is a consequential moment for Antioch, as it is for all of higher education. I am so inspired by Antioch's mission and place in American higher education, and I am excited about the possibilities as it reinvents itself to meet the needs of the world and the hopes of the next generation. On campus, I was blown away by the community - faculty, staff, students, alumni, and Yellow Springs residents - and their commitment to imagining a future and rolling up their sleeves to get it done. I am ready to roll up my sleeves, too, as we win some victories for humanity."
As an academic leader, he believes in the transformative power of liberal education and the civic role of institutions of higher education. He brings special experience in organizational change, faculty development, institutional equity, and shared governance. He has also published on moving the needle on faculty diversity (Department Chair 2022), faculty leadership development (Change: A Magazine of Higher Education 2019), and religious pluralism and intolerance on campus (Conversations 2017).
As a scholar, he has studied and taught American literature, especially African American and twentieth-century literature, and he has published a number of books on the relationship between literature and social change, including Dead Women Talking: Figures of Injustice in American Literature (Johns Hopkins 2013), Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post-Civil Rights American Literature (Georgia 2010), and The American Protest Essay and National Belonging (SUNY 2007). He has held residential fellowships at University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Wesleyan University, and Rutgers University.
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- Property Management Staff Member
- Dean of Cooperative, Experiential, and International Education Associate Professor of Writing, Aesthetics & Digital Studies
Brooke Blackmon Bryan serves as the Dean for Cooperative, Experiential, and International Education and Associate Professor of Writing, Aesthetics & Digital Studies at Antioch College. Her teaching engages the philosophy of experience with methods of oral history, multimodal composition, and contemporary practice. With a background in journalism, she often works with students to compose public scholarship and multimedia exhibits.
Brooke directs the initiatives of the Cooperative Education program, manages the Antioch Works network of campus-based student jobs, and is tasked with building new models for experiential education and the applied liberal arts on the occasion of Co-op's centennial anniversary. She convenes the Antioch Associated Press project team- a collective of students practicing multichannel storytelling across platforms such as anti-watt radio, Oral History in the Liberal Arts digital repositories, Antiochiana Digital Archives, and the student journal Antioch Engaged.
For five years, she directed Oral History in the Liberal Arts (OHLA) for the Great Lakes Colleges Association, an initiative funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support faculty-mentored undergraduate fieldwork in the humanities and humanistic sciences. OHLA funded 62 projects across 26 institutions in the Midwest and through transnational and global partnerships. Resources and searchable interview projects can be accessed in the consortial repository at ohla.info.
Her research explores how the art object happens (comes into being), can be handled, is allowed to perish (or be used up), or how such an object could be ‘saved' or preserved. This research currently focuses on the American Quilt, which has been brought under the phantasm of art in recent decades, and thereby under the purview of the museum and contemporary conversation thinking. Taking up a critique of new materialisms while engaging concerns that span Bergson, Heidegger, and Deleuze, this research seeks the iterative and the incorporeal in such varied and diverse art practices as Japanese Boro, African American quilts collected by Eli Leon and recently accessioned by the Berkeley Art Museum, the making and remaking of the Grand Ise Shrine, the restoration practices of classic car enthusiasts, and the tin encasements commissioned to encase traditional wheaten wreaths by artist Ana Lupas.
She heats with wood in an 1842 homestead with 3 teenagers, 5 dogs, 23 chickens, one bunny, and a parrot, where she shares her textile studios with a toolmaker.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Candidate, Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Art Theory, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (ABD 2021)
M.A., Humanities- Oral History Methodology & Sound Studies, Antioch University, 2013
B.A., Humanities- World Classics, Antioch University, 2009
AWARDS
Post-Secondary Teaching Award, Oral History Association (2017)
Faculty Excellence in Service Award, SOCHE (2017)
Osman C. Hooper In-Depth Reporting Award, Ohio Newspaper Association (2010 and 2011)
Brooke Bryan of Antioch College Unanimous Choice for Post Secondary Teaching Award of the Oral History Association https://www.facebook.com/oralhistoryassociation/posts/this-years-oha-postsecondary-teaching-award-was-awarded-tobrooke-bryan-from-anti/1262188363822834/ and https://co-op.antiochcollege.edu/faculty-spotlight-brooke-bryan-2/
Brooke Bryan of Antioch College curates GLCA oral history research projects across Consortium http://glcateachlearn.org/oral-history-in-the-liberal-arts-a-community-based-teaching-learning-program-using-tools-for-digital-scholarship-storytelling/
Brooke Bryan of Antioch College receives prestigious grant with Kenyon co-director https://co-op.antiochcollege.edu/antioch-college-co-op-faculty-awarded-prestigious-glca-grant/
Bruce grew up on a mid size dairy farm just a few miles southwest of Antioch College, between Xenia, Fairborn and Yellow Springs, OH. He went to Xenia schools and completed Ag. Mechanics courses at The Greene Joint Vocational Center. He received a State Farmers Degree in the Future Farmers of America.
Bruce started his farming career at the age of 15, raising livestock and row crops until 1984. He spent the next 30 years working at Elano Corporate in various roles building aircraft parts for GE aircraft division and farming on the side. He left GE in the fall of 2013, after 30 years, and started market garden farming and taking small farm training courses at Wilmington College and Ohio State.
Bruce completed a summer internship on the Antioch Farm in 2019 under former Farmer Manager Kat Christen and co-taught a beginning farmers class that year. ln the spring of 2020, due to the pandemic, Bruce was asked to come back to the Antioch Farm to help run it for long term storage crops for the fall of 2021. In March 2021, Bruce was asked to come back again as Farm Manager.
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- Property Management Staff Member
- Associate Professor of French Language and Culture
Instructor of French Dr. Cary Campbell comes to Antioch College most recently from the University of Pittsburgh where he served for two years as their Coordinator of French Language programs. He also trained there both as a linguist and as a literary scholar. From his undergraduate training both in Linguistics and French, he developed interests in language pedagogy, syntax, Romantic and Francophone narrative fiction. They eventually culminated in his MA in literature and linguistics, and in his PhD in African literature with a dissertation focusing on the construction of national identity in recent novels from Côte d'Ivoire. Today, he is broadening his dissertation topic into a book project comparing literary representations of national identity across a range of African Francophone countries.
While pursuing this education, Dr. Campbell kept a busy schedule teaching all levels of French, as well as courses in phonology, approaches to literature, the history of the French Atlantic, the African novel of French expression, and Anticolonialism. His fifteen years of teaching experience has also included collaboration on several online French textbooks and interactive video-based French courses, earning him Contributing Author credits on Carnegie Mellon's award winning Open Learning Initiative French Online program. Dr. Campbell has a long history of applying proficiency-based and communicative methods in the classroom and in infusing all his classes, from elementary French to advanced literature, with the cultural products, practices and perspectives he developed a love for during his overseas experiences in France and in Côte d'Ivoire.
EDUCATION
PhD French Language and Literature, University of Pittsburgh, 2010
PHD-level Cultural Studies Certificate, University of Pittsburgh, 2005
MA French Linguistics and Literature, University of Pittsburgh, 2002
BA French / BA Linguistics, Brigham Young University, 1999
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- Senior Public Safety Patrol Officer
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Trustee
- Board Chair of the AIDS Foundation Chicago
Craig W. Johnson manages the American Medical Association (AMA) Minority Affairs Section, a member constituency group comprised of Black, Latinx and Native American physicians and medical students who prioritize minority health policy, racism in medicine, physician workforce diversity, and health equity. He previously managed the AMA's Advisory Committee on LGBTQ Issues to the Board of Trustees. Craig has held previous positions with Rush University Medical Center, American Bar Association, University of Chicago, and George Washington University.
In addition to serving on the Antioch College Board of Trustees, Craig is the board chair of the AIDS Foundation Chicago (AFC) and is the former chair of the board's Policy and Advocacy Committee. He is also an appointee to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's Advisory Council on LGBTQ+ Issues. Craig has also served on the LGBTQ Community Advisory Council for Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center and is a former board chair of the Chicago Black Gay Men's Caucus. He has been recognized as a "Notable LGBTQ Executive" by Crain's Chicago Business, and received an Esteem Award for outstanding community service by PrideIndex.com.
Craig earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in social and management studies from Antioch College, and is a former Vice President of the College's Alumni Board of Directors. He resides in Chicago, and has an adult daughter who lives in Los Angeles.
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- Member of the Honorary Members of the Board
- Trustee
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- Director of Communications / Dean Snyder / Assistant Professor of Political Economy
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- Registrar & Institutional Research Coordinator
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- Associate Professor of Chemistry
Dr. David Kammler is interested in a wide variety of activities, disciplines, and modes of inquiry, especially: astronomy and space exploration, biochemistry, chemistry, cooking, gardening, history, philosophy, running, soccer, and teaching. Dr. Kammler began to focus on chemistry and biochemistry in college, and graduated from Harvard University in 1994 with an AB, Cum Laude, in Chemistry. During this time Dr. Kammler fell in love with teaching and the interdisciplinary modes of inquiry found within liberal arts colleges. After a short hiatus for rest, recovery, cooking, and more teaching, Dr. Kammler attended graduate school at Indiana University, Bloomington, and was awarded a Ph.D. in Chemistry (Organic Chemistry major, Biochemistry minor) in 2002. Dr. Kammler came to Antioch College as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, and then an Assistant Professor of Chemistry, where he remained until the school's closure in 2008. During this time, he taught majors classes in chemistry and biomedical science, as well as interdisciplinary general education classes such as the science of cooking, chemistry and art, and fresh water chemistry, all of which included healthy doses of history, philosophy, and hands-on learning. From 2008-2011, Dr. Kammler was an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Wilberforce University, where he taught majors classes in biomedical science and health services administration, as well as general education classes. In 2011, Dr. David Kammler was privileged to join the new Antioch College, where he currently teaches chemistry and chemistry-related classes for the biomedical science and environmental science majors, as well as general education classes, with the expected sprinklings of art, astronomy, history, philosophy and, of course, humor. In 2012, Dr. Kammler became the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, responsible for a wide variety of practical curricular mechanics, which increased when he became Dean of Academic Affairs in 2016. According to sources that could just possibly be reliable, he continues to have a sense of humor, and still finds writing his own biographical sketches rather odd. Dr. Kammler is a third-generation Eagle Scout, has written, received, and reviewed scientific grants and patents, has received three distinguished teaching awards since his teaching career began in 1992, and is most assuredly a foodie.
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Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington
A.B., Chemistry, Harvard University
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- President
- New President
- President of the College
Dr. Fernandes is a native of Worcester, Massachusetts. She received a bachelor's in French from Trinity College, and a master's and doctorate in Comparative Literature from The University of Iowa.
Dr. Fernandes has three decades of experience in higher education, including seven years as president of Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, where she was also a tenured member of the faculty. She has provided senior leadership and has held tenured faculty positions at other distinguished higher education institutions, including UNC Asheville, and Gallaudet University.
She has dedicated her career to making educational excellence accessible to all students by welcoming the fantastic range of human diversity to campus, including every voice in decision-making, and providing support, accommodations, and reparations to achieve equitable education through differences. She knows we learn more about ourselves in a rich environment open to everyone and works to ensure that no one is so defined by their circumstances as to be denied the options and space needed to explore and find their authentic selves.
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- Public Safety Patrol Officer
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- Member of the Honorary Members of the Board
- Trustee
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- Administrative Support Specialist - Office of the Registrar
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- Director of the Olive Kettering Library
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Trustee
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- Public Safety Patrol Officer
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- Campus Retail and Mailroom Manager
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- Assistant Professor of Visual Arts
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- Member of the Honorary Members of the Board
- Trustee
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- Member of the Honorary Members of the Board
Our first president, Horace Mann, set the tone for what would come to be a college of firsts. First coeducational college in the nation to offer the same educational opportunities to men and women. First undergraduate liberal arts college to embrace community-based cooperative work as part of the curriculum. One of the first to offer African-Americans equal educational opportunities.
To fully understand where Antioch College is going, you need to know where we've been.
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- Student Success Services Coordinator
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- Member of the Honorary Members of the Board
- Trustee
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- Senior Major Gifts Officer
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- Assistant Professor of Anthropology
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- Assistant Facilities Manager, Staff Trustee
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- Member of the Honorary Members of the Board
- Trustee
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- Member of the Honorary Members of the Board
- Trustee
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- Director of Counseling Services
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- Associate Professor of History
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- Information Technology and Media Services Manager
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- Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Science
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- Associate Professor of Philosophy
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- Member of the Honorary Members of the Board
- Trustee
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- Senior Manager - Kitchens
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- Cooperative Education, Community Arts, and Performance
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- Member of the Honorary Members of the Board
- Trustee
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- Director of Communications / Dean Snyder / Assistant Professor of Political Economy
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- Director of Financial Aid
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- Trustee, Advancement Chair
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- Property Management Staff Member
- Assistant Professor of Sculpture and Installation, Faculty Trustee, Interim Creative Director
- Sculpture and Installation and Director of the Herndon Gallery, Faculty Trustee
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- Kitchen Assistant and Dishwasher
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- Property Management Staff Member
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- Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Academic Affairs
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- Assistant Professor of Literature
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- Senior Administrative Assistant
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- Senior Manager - Catering Services
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- Associate Professor of History
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- Associate Professor of Cooperative & International Education
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- Assistant Professor of Writing and Composition
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- Director of Public Safety
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- Property Management Staff Member
- Library Technical Assistant
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- Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
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- Archivist
- Head of Antiochiana, Wil
Scott Sanders, head of Antiochiana, will give us a historical tour of Campus and Peter Townsend, emeritus Geology faculty, will give us a photographic tour of the Glen as well as an actual walk.
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- Property Management Staff Member
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- Assistant Dean of Students
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- Administrative Support Specialist for Cooperative, International, & Experiential Education
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Trustee
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- Office Manager and Campus Visit Coordinator
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- Member of the Honorary Members of the Board
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
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- Director, Wellness Center
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- Director of Alumni and External Relations
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- Vice President for Advancement
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- Property Management Staff Member
- Maintenance Coordinator - Grounds Keeping
Anita Brown
Executive Assistant to the Office of the President and the Board of Trustees