History
In 1964, Antioch College opened a new center on the East Coast to offer graduate education with a practical bent. The new school, called Antioch-Putney, opened its doors in Putney, Vermont.
The school moved from Putney to Harrisville, in the New Hampshire hills. It expanded, offering more graduate programs and expanding the scope of the education department. The name was then changed to Antioch New England Graduate School.
Antioch College was the most well-known campus in the system, founded in 1852 by Horace Mann and known for its liberal politics, for example its 1990 policy requiring explicit verbal consent before any sexual act amongst students. Coretta Scott King and Stephen Jay Gould were graduates.
However, the Antioch system faced difficult times in the 2000s. Its board chose to close Antioch College to retrench and reduce costs. An alumni-controlled group was able to negotiate a separation between Antioch College and the adult education system of which Antioch University New England is a part. AUNE no longer is affiliated with Antioch College.
Antioch University New England, as it is currently known, is situated in a renovated furniture factory in Keene, New Hampshire, almost exactly midway between the former locations. It serves a student body of around 1,200 students, offering master's degrees in twenty-three different programs, and two doctoral programs.
According to Antioch University New England 73% of their students are female and 70% are from New England.
Antioch University has followed some trends of for-profit institutions. AUNE tends to target non-traditional students and working students. Its professors have adjunct-style contracts, increasing management flexibility because professors can be fired more easily than at schools with tenure. However, lack of tenure brings decreased job prestige and desirability, and the school may have difficulty recruiting the best faculty.
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