Antioch University Los Angeles Mission Statement Antioch University Los Angeles provides rigorous, progressive education to prepare students for the complexities of today's diverse societies. Combining dynamic scholarship and creative endeavor with experiential learning and reflective practice, AULA fosters personal and collective agency, global citizenship, and socially conscious leadership.

1 A Welcome from Neal Dear Fellow Antiochians, Greetings. We see our 40th anniversary on the horizon, and now have over 6,000 distinguished alumni dispersed around the world. It seems like a good time to introduce you to today's dynamic, complex, idiosyncratic, and iconoclastic Antioch University Los Angeles. Constant across time have been our mission and core values. We continue to transform lives and graduate engaged citizens who dedicate themselves to serving their communities. We still proudly trace our roots as an institution of conscience in U. S. Higher Education back to the venerable Antioch College. Beloved faculty and staff such as Sharon, Al, Joy, Cheryl and Susan still carry forward our founding history and remain at the heart of it all. You will see in these pages many new faces, new energies, and new initiatives in practice and on the horizon, building on these strengths. Inside you'll be able to re- connect with faculty, students and fellow alums from familiar AULA programs. You'll meet our newest program in Urban Sustainability, due to go live in fall of 2010. You'll see how the Bridge Program ( formerly CHE) is doing at age 10. You'll hear from some of our diverse community members, who literally " walk the talk" and are vibrant examples of our shared values of sustainability, lifelong learning, and commitment to service. We have two new boards whose members you'll meet here: The Alumni and Community Advisory Board ( ACAB) and our first AULA Board of Trustees ( BOT), both comprised of richly diverse expert volunteers who have chosen to add service to AULA to their already very full plates. I'm very proud of these new boards, and honored and humbled at the caliber and generosity of those who have elected to serve. And - as many of you may know - AULA is now WASC- accredited and a separate Antioch University campus from our sister campus to the north in Santa Barbara. We began in earnest to reconnect with our treasured alumni in a formal and consistent way a few years ago, hosting annual fall and spring events for alums and their families ( mark your calendars for December 5th and see page 40 for details on the upcoming event honoring Dr. Joy Turek) and by making the leap into the dizzying world of new media, so that we can Facebook, Link- In and " Tweet" one another to our heart's content. So - welcome home. There are enormously exciting times ahead for AULA. I welcome you all back into the mix in a meaningful way, and hope to see you soon. With all best wishes, Neal King, Ph. D., President