Bridge in the Media
Artistic Uprising 2019: An Interview with Co-Organizers Noah Christensen and Brianna Fields
Antioch University Los Angeles will host the 12th annual Artistic Uprising on November 15, 2019. Students, alumni, faculty, and friends will share their visual and artistic works of art with the community. All donations and proceeds from the sale of the art will help fund the Bridge Program, which provides low-income adults with university-level education at no cost.
The Bridge Program Celebrates 20 Years
In the fall of 2019, the Bridge Program at Antioch University Los Angeles will celebrate 20 years. Bridge, which provides University level education for students who may not otherwise have access to higher education, was founded in 1999 by alumni and faculty member Shari Foos with Founding Director and faculty member David Tripp.
Antioch’s Bridge Program Changes the Course of Janine Betts’ Life
Janine Betts comes from a family of educated women, but she says choices that she made earlier in her life prevented her from earning a degree. When she decided that she was ready to go to college, an opportunity with Antioch University’s Bridge Program helped her make her dream come true and even beyond.
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Antioch Marches in LA’s 34th MLK Kingdom Day Parade
2019 marked the first year that Antioch University marched as a group in LA’s 34th Kingdom Day Parade. Accompanying the group of faculty, staff, students, alums, and family members was a twelve-foot-tall puppet modeled on the image of the distinguished Coretta Scott King
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Bridge Program Featured in “The Clemente Quarterly”
The Bridge Program’s Service Learning Class (BSL) and Bridge faculty member Rosa Garza-Mourino were featured in The Clemente Quarterly, a national newsletter for those interested in free education in the humanities. Created by Garza-Mourino in 2011, the Service Learning Course gets students out of the classroom and into the neighborhoods providing an opportunity to connect classroom learning with learning directly within communities.
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“A Very Necessary Party”
A Very Necessary Party was held on June 4, 2017, to support the Bridge Program, which provides university-level humanities education for students who may not otherwise have access to higher education. The fundraiser included both familiar faces and people for whom it was their first time to learn about Bridge.