Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
Come Home to the Center for Creative Change
Why the Center for Creative Change?
As a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (RPCV), you have experienced both the challenges and the rewards of creating sustainable social change. The Center for Creative Change highly values your Peace Corps service, and that overseas experience can serve as an integral element in your studies for a future career.
Do you want to make the most of your in-country experience and continue contributing meaningfully toward creating a better world? Come home to the Center for Creative Change and continue what you started.
What degree programs are offered in the Center?
The degree programs in Antioch University Seattle's Center for Creative Change (C3) grow the creative leaders that are necessary for addressing complex social and environmental challenges. C3 graduates gain the essential skills for generating sustainable change and propelling our workplaces, communities and our world toward better futures.
Choose from these interdisciplinary master's degrees:
Why Do RPCVs Choose C3?
Learn with fellow RPCV students and faculty.
Students in C3 are organized into collaborative learning groups that provide opportunities to share perspectives and insights in a supportive learning community. C3 core faculty Jonathan Scherch and Mark Hower are RPCVs, and C3 programs regularly include RPCV students.
Watch a short video of RPCV and Antioch alumna Kristen McIvor.
Connect and apply your Peace Corps experience with local community action.
C3 students design 9-month change projects in collaboration with community organizations of their choosing. Check out some examples.
Earn a master's degree that affirms and builds on your unique experience and skills.
RPCVs return home with tremendous capacities for facilitating social change. C3 degree programs are designed to make it easy and rewarding for you to apply and deepen these capacities in your graduate studies.
Prepare yourself for leadership positions in exciting, innovative fields.
C3 students and graduates pursue innovative projects and lead social change efforts in self-identified fields of interest. The rich variety of interests and diversity of learning goals within learning groups and programs create valuable career-path opportunities.
Bring local-through-global perspectives to collaborative learning and practices.
C3's Global Issues and Perspectives lecture/discussion and complementary course projects provide students with opportunities to make connections across systems and cultures.
Pursue your passion — enjoy robust, interdisciplinary courses and field projects.
You will practice and acquire collaborative learning skills, as you honor and pursue your personal and professional aspirations.
Join and contribute to a network of Antioch students and alumni active around the world.
You have opportunities to connect with many C3 alumni who live and work in regional and international communities. In addition, C3 enjoys partnerships with international organizations, such as Pacific Bamboo Resources (PBR) and iLEAP. PBR was developed by RPCV and C3 core faculty Jonathan Scherch with entrepreneurs, scholars, students and design practitioners. iLEAP was developed by C3 core faculty Britt Yamamoto.
Extend your Peace Corps learning and service via conferences, campus events and community networking.
Seattle is a hotbed for events around social change, sustainability, green business innovation and other causes that attract international audiences and participants.
Link your interests with the work of world-class faculty.
In classes and when collaborating with students, the faculty bring to bear the influences of many perspectives and experiences, leading to a robust, rich and integrated academic experience. All C3 faculty regularly present at and participate in international conferences and workshops and are engaged in interdisciplinary fieldwork projects.
Be a part of Antioch's 160-years of vanguard education for social justice, social change and sustainability.
Add your voice, your experiences, your mind and your heart to the quest to generate sustainable social change.
Apply for scholarships and graduate assistant positions.
RPCVs and AmeriCorps members receive an automatic tuition break of $2,000 in their second year of study. For more information see Antioch Scholarships. In addition, RPCVs may apply for graduate assistant (GA) positions that offset tuition for campus/community service.
Find out more about the Center for Creative Change and degree programs.
http://www.antiochseattle.edu/academics/creativechange/index.html
For information about C3 admissions and to receive application materials, contact Wendy Olsen, C3 admissions counselor.
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