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April 15, 2006

Hower Named Interim President:
Murdock Resigns Antioch Seattle to Be Chancellor 

Seattle – Toni Murdock, president of Antioch University Seattle, resigns her position this month to be chancellor of the multiple campuses of Antioch University.

She relocates to Yellow Springs, Ohio, where Antioch’s central offices are located, to become the university’s top administrator. Murdock has been president of the Seattle campus for the past nine years.

Mark Hower, Murdock’s chief of staff and a member of the management faculty at Antioch Seattle, has been appointed interim president of the Seattle campus.

“Toni Murdock leaves Antioch with a strong reputation for innovative and rigorous academic programs including a new doctorate in clinical psychology, a master’s in strategic communication and a reinvigorated B.A. completion program.

“I look forward to continuing her legacy of attracting diverse and highly qualified faculty and students, positioning Antioch for further success and greater service to and involvement with the community,” Hower says.

Hower has extensive management experience along with cross-cultural skills from his work with the Peace Corps in Russia, Africa and the South Pacific. A search will begin later this summer for a new Antioch Seattle president. 

Murdock agreed to become chancellor until June 2007 while Antioch continues its search for a permanent chancellor.

About Antioch
At Antioch University Seattle, adult learners find individualized, innovative programs with a commitment to academic excellence, community service and social justice. Antioch Seattle is one of six campuses of Antioch University, founded in 1852 in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Horace Mann, noted abolitionist and first president of Antioch College, gave a charge to the class of 1859 that is repeated to each Antioch graduating class: "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”

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