Antioch was:

• one of the first co-ed colleges

• first to name a woman as full professor

• one of the first to eliminate race as an admission requirement

Some well-known alumni of Antioch College

• Lawrence Block: novelist
• Olympia Brown: women’s suffragist
• Leland C. Clark Jr.: chemist, built the first practical heart-lung machine
• John C. Flansburgh: guitarist and songwriter for the musical group They Might Be Giants
• Stephen Jay Gould: paleontologist and author
• Robert M. Greenwald: director and producer of more than 49 television movies, miniseries and feature films
• John P. Hammond: blues guitarist
• Coretta Scott King: activist and wife of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
• Horace Mann: abolitionist and the first president of Antioch
• Sylvia Nasar: journalist, economist and author of “A Beautiful Mind”
• Victor Nunez: independent filmmaker whose credits include “Ulee’s Gold” and “Ruby in Paradise”
• Leonard Nimoy: actor
• Eleanor Holmes Norton: congresswoman
• Cliff Robertson: actor
• Louis Sachar: author of Newbery Medal-winning children’s novel “Holes”
• Mark Strand: former U.S. poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry
• Rod Serling: “Twilight Zone” creator