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The Antiochian Le Ader The Antiochian Leader FALL 2018 FALL GOING, BY LAURIEN ALEXANDRE AND We are in the midst of ARRIVING, transitions as Margaret departs, Jen joins, and RETURNING Shana returns! Let me explain a bit. The Going I am heartbroken myself growing every day. It was challenging but I was to share that encouraged and supported from every direction and Margaret Morgan granted the freedom to find my own way so it was also is leaving us as quite rewarding. In this rare environment, masterfully Associate Director cultivated by Laurien and maintained by our amazing of Student Services faculty and small-but-mighty team of staff colleagues, I and Program developed strength, confidence, stamina, and many other Operations. She will skills I know will serve me well, both professionally and be taking over her personally, as I move into this next life chapter and beyond. family’s publishing business as her So… why are you leaving -- or rather, share a bit about what mother retires. you are going to do? We have all grown I leave to answer the call of my mother who has asked to love Margaret, me to help continue the legacy of our family’s publishing thrive with her care, business that she started 30 years ago. Initially, I’ll be and depend on her presence to keep all the wheels turning. helping with new business development while gradually Margaret joined us five years ago having a wonderful sense taking on more responsibility in business operations as she of systems and an incredible service orientation. Over transitions into retirement in the coming year. these past years she has brought lots of order to chaos, lots of competence to her tasks, and lots of smiles to our What will you miss most? hearts. We will miss her terribly and we wish her well with I think what I’ll miss most are the relationships built along the family opportunities ahead. Read her interview below! the way – with students, faculty, staff, university colleagues, alumni, everyone’s partners, children, friends – and how I What are a few things you enjoyed most about working with was embraced as a whole person, not just an employee. the GSLC? Whenever anyone expressed care for me or my family by Hands down, the best part about working here was getting sending a sweet thank you note or showing enthusiasm to know so many incredible people. This is the most for my husband’s paintings or asking how our daughter fascinating and unique learning community and I have was doing in school, I knew it was sincere and that was benefited in ways I could never have imagined just by priceless. It has been an absolute joy and a privilege to being in your presence. A close second was witnessing work and grow with each and everyone over these last six the complete arc of human transformation – in just a few years and I hope we can continue to stay in touch. years, nervous students we greeted with hugs on Day 1 became proud graduates we showered with applause at Anything else? Commencement – it was truly a wonder to behold! Also, While Laurien’s annual charge to graduates to “win some I was very grateful for the opportunity to travel. Not only victory for humanity” was not spoken to me directly, I had I never been to the West Coast before, I arrived on the promise to honor it all the same. scene with a terrible fear of flying which was completely cured by the end of my second full residency tour. In what ways do you think you grew professionally and personally? Higher-education was new territory for me so I found 2 | ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY Join Us for a Visit! We welcome you to join us for an upcoming on campus visit or webinar session! Learn more and register today! antioch.edu/gslc The Arriving At the same trend, where I can use my skills and interests to support the time, we want to students and faculty. What I have to offer is a preference welcome with open towards using technology, and setting up systems and arms Jen Swartout, processes to support a program. I am interested in as the new exploring how these things relate to student retention and Associate Director achievement. of Student Services and Program I am really looking forward to new challenges. It’s been such Operations. Jen a gift to learn from Margaret for the past month or so. starts officially this fall and many of What experiences do you have that are most relevant for you will meet her this work ahead? at the November In addition to more than a decade working with graduate residency. Jen has students and programs, my experience coordinating worked in higher residencies and events will be useful! I like systems and education for over 10 processes - and tweaking these when necessary. Knowing years including time spent at Harvard and most recently some of Antioch’s current databases, such as Colleague, Antioch University New England as the Administrative and having relationships already with key staff in the Coordinator for the Education Department. Jen received University Registrar’s Office, for example, will enable me to her Master of Science in Professional Communication from get up and running quickly. Clark University in 2004. If we were to do this interview in a year, in what ways Jen has known about the PhD in Leadership and Change do you hope you will have grown, professionally and/or for well over a decade. Read her interview and find out personally? how! In truth, the biggest hope I have is that I will find my work fulfilling. I’m looking forward to thinking creatively, What draws you to the program? learning the ins and outs of the PhDLC, assisting with the I have known my mother-in-law (Deb Baldwin, the founding development of the new Master’s if it comes to fruition, and I graduate research librarian of the PhD in Leadership and hope that a year from now anyone would look back and say I Change!) just a little longer than I’ve been working in contributed to the continued success of the program. higher education, so over these many years we have talked about the PhDLC program and the Graduate School of What is something else about you that you would like the Leadership and Change quite a bit! I’ve been intrigued by GSLC community to know that we wouldn’t see in your CV? the program’s design and the students and faculty it draws. I have two little girls, Evelyn (Evy) is 8 years old and The PhDLC seems like a bright spot where Antioch’s vision Ionie is 3 years old. My husband Tim and I like to visit of “transformative education in a global context that fosters microbreweries and brewpubs. I recently took a cake innovation and inspires social action” is a reality. decorating class and love to try my hand at it whenever I get the chance. I love to cook, and read. What are you looking most forward to? Anything make you nervous? I’m looking forward to joining this successful program whose model is on the leading edge of the low-residency Graduate School of Leadership and Change | 3 LAURIEN ALEXANDRE The Returning Dr. Shana Hormann has Provost’s (Cohort 2) returned to the GSLC, this time as a senior program Column developer. Shana has worked at Antioch University Seattle since 1998 in an array of I want to focus this issue’s Provost’s positions, starting Column on something that makes as an adjunct me very proud: Antioch’s tradition faculty member and to stand up for democracy and the then a Core Faculty ways in which our program aspires member in the First to embody the critical intersection People’s Programs in of institutional mission, democratic values, and engaged scholarship. Antioch’s Center for Creative Change at a Tribal College, to These thoughts are drawn from being an Academic Director, a campus Vice President and my 2018 Commencement Address, a Dean of Students ….and more titles too! The point is she which can be seen in full at: [https:// has been at Antioch a very long time and when the internal www.antioch.edu/gslc/2018/08/15/provost-commencement- opportunity came up to shift over and join the GSLC for address-highlights-institutional-mission-democracy-and-free- this year and help with the pre-launch work of the pending speech-in-these-trying-times/] Master’s of Leadership Practice (MLP), we all jumped at the opportunity. In the coming issue we will have much more to I have often wondered what brought Horace Mann—this abolitionist, say about the MLP, for now, we wanted to introduce Shana. politician, Bostonian, and advocate of public education—to a small private struggling college in Yellow Springs, Ohio? Horace Mann Shana has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at believed in the fundamental role of education for democracy. Antioch University Seattle, the Muckleshoot Tribal College, While he was driven by a rather rigid moral code that makes me—a and the University of Alaska. Shana received a BA in child of the 1960s—shudder, his core belief was that without Sociology and Master’s in Social Work from the University effective schooling there could be no functioning democratic of Washington, and a PhD in Leadership and Change from society. He came to Antioch to try that out at the college level. He saw higher education’s value to provide the analytic skills and moral Antioch University.
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