Antioch College Chosen for Princeton Review's “Colleges with a Conscience”

Antioch College is one of the nation's best colleges fostering social responsibility and public service according to The Princeton Review and Campus Compact. It is one of 81 institutions in 33 states that The Princeton Review commends and features in its forthcoming book, Colleges with a Conscience: 81 Great Schools with Outstanding Community Involvement (Random House / Princeton Review Books, $18.95 paperback). Available in bookstores on June 21, 2005, the book has two-page profiles on each college and advice for applicants.

“A college with a conscience,” says Robert Franek, Princeton Review V.P., Admission Services, “has both an administration committed to social responsibility and a student body actively engaged in serving society. Education at these schools isn't only about private gain: it's about the public good.”

The Princeton Review partnered with Campus Compact, a national organization committed to the civic purposes of higher education, to develop Colleges with a Conscience and choose the schools featured in the book. The book's editors also invited dozens of organizations with expertise in campus community service and student engagement to nominate colleges for inclusion. Criteria included: the college's admissions practices and scholarships rewarding community service; support for servicelearning programs, student activism, and student voice in school governance; and level of social engagement of its student body.

The Princeton Review and Campus Compact winnowed a list of 100 schools from a pool of over 900 colleges. From this shortlist, the editors collected extensive data about schools' service programs and policies, surveying their students and faculty/ staff. The 81 schools chosen for Colleges with a Conscience represent a diverse range of institutions by geographic region, campus size, setting (urban/ rural), and type (public/private).

Each two-page profile provides detailed information about civic engagement and service-learning programs on campus, in the classroom, and in the community, as well as advice for applicants. The book also includes a section on researching colleges with service-learning programs and gaining financial support for service. Profiles of 15 students share perceptions and feedback about their civic engagement activities, advice, and experience.

Colleges with a Conscience is one of nearly 200 books developed by The Princeton Review in a line published by Random House. The line includes several other college guides, plus guides to graduate schools, standardized tests, careers, and learning resource books. The Princeton Review is known for its classroom and online testprep courses, books and other education services. Headquartered in New York City with offices across the USA and abroad, it is not affiliated with Princeton University or ETS. Campus Compact is a national coalition of more than 950 college and university presidents committed to supporting the public purposes of higher education. Its national office is in Providence, RI, and it has local offices in 30 states.

New Benefits for Donors

The Annual Giving team is pleased to announce a new benefit to its Horace Mann Society members, as well as to launch a new giving society, the Rebecca Pennell Society. Horace Mann Society members will now receive tri-annual updates from College faculty in one of six disciplines: Cooperative Education, Cultural Studies, Economics, Environmental Studies, History, and Philosophy. These updates will take the form of cultural, intellectual, and academic-based letters to Society members. As always, Horace Mann Society members will continue to receive quarterly updates on the College in the form of our “Good News Letter.”

In other news, the Rebecca Pennell Society, a giving society created to honor those who give annually to The Fund at the $500-$999 level, is thriving. Created in the fall of 2004 in honor of the College's first woman professor, Society members receive tri-annual updates from select Student Ambassadors, a unique reception at Reunion, mention on a framed certificate in Pennell House, and invitations to regional events with key administrators. Join the Rebecca Pennell Society today by making a donation of $500 to the Fund for Antioch College!

Make your gift online! Visit www.antioch-college. edu/giving.

Antioch Listed in US News and World Report

Antioch College has been recognized for its innovative cooperative education program by U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges 2005 in the category of “Academic Programs: Programs to Look For.” The category represents “a list of schools with outstanding examples of academic programs that are believed to lead to student success.” Antioch College is specifically listed under the category of “Academic Programs: Internships / Co-ops” which, according to the guide, “requires or encourages students to apply what they're learning in the classroom out in the real world — through closely supervised internships or practicums, or through cooperative education, in which a period of study typically alternates with one of work.” The College was one of only 11 colleges nationwide recognized for this achievement.

Antioch Praised in The Nation

Antioch College was praised in the January 24, 2005 issue of The Nation magazine for its “socialchange oriented curriculum that has graduated several generations of activists.”The article, "Profits for Justice", was written by Michael H. Shuman and Merrian Fuller.