Profiles, Recognition, and Criticism
Huffington Post recognized Antioch College on its list of Top Non-Traditional Colleges alongside Brown, the New School and Wesleyan University, among others. The editors wrote: "When it was up and running, Antioch provides students with smorgasbord of interdisciplinary majors founded on the basis of the school's "Three C's": classroom, co-op, and community. Though the school closed its doors in 2008, it will reopen in fall 2011."
Antioch has been regularly included in the guidebook "Colleges That Change Lives" which declares that "there is no college or university in the country that makes a more profound difference in a young person's life or that creates more effective adults."
During her remarks to the college in 2004 alumna Coretta Scott King stated that "Antioch students learn that it’s not enough to have a great career, material wealth and a fulfilling family life. We are also called to serve, to share, to give and to do what we can to lift up the lives of others. No other college emphasizes this challenge so strongly. That’s what makes Antioch so special."
The Twilight Zone TV series, created by 1950 Antioch alumnus Rod Serling, includes an episode titled "The Changing of the Guard" that is considered to be "the Antioch episode" for its references to Antioch that include mention of Horace Mann and the school motto.
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