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HEALTHY DINNERS A Gentleman and a Scholar(ship) Awards & Honors AULA has awarded Mario Davila the AbramsonMuscarolas Scholarship in Nonprofit Management, providing him with full tuition to the MA in Nonprofit Management program, which launched in the fall. The scholarship was made possible by a generous gift from AULA Board of Trustees member Grant Abramson and his wife, Miriam Muscarolas. Director of LA’s BEST After School Arts Program and a frequent volunteer for many cultural organizations, Davila is grateful for the opportunity and says that his calling “is to support, and advocate for, increased access to quality arts education programming.” Daryl Bilandzija, MA in Urban Sustainability ’13 Profiled in “American Teacher: Heroes in the Classroom” (Welcome Books/Random House, 2013) J. Cynthia McDermott, chair, Education Department 2013-14 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award (McDermott previously received a Fulbright Scholar Award for 2010-11) John Paulett, MFA ’13 2013 Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Education Golden Apple Foundation of Chicago Scott Rowland, MA in Clinical Psychology ’14 2013-14 Educational stipend Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health Ligiah Villalobos, BA ’13 2013 HUMANITAS Prize for film/TV writing “Firelight,” Hallmark Hall of Fame Great Expectations The Full-Time Equivalency/Year to Date Achievement Report for Fall 2013 concludes that AULA’s five quarter programs and two low-residency programs have met or exceeded their overall enrollment projections approved by Antioch University’s Board of Governors, consistent with the general upswing in enrollment for the 2012-2013 fiscal year. In related news… The AULA campus is expanding from 51,318 rentable square feet to 65,252 RSF – an increase of more than 25 percent. 2013 2014 Turn the page to read what Villalobos and Psychology instructor Thomas Mondragon have to say about diversity in movies and television. -SR GROUNDSWELL.ANTIOCHLA.EDU | J0953_GroundswellR.indd 5 5 12/18/13 11:17 AM