2020-2021 Academic Calendar

2020-2022 Academic Calendar

Summer Quarter 2020
Quarter Begins June 19, 2020
Quarter Ends August 28, 2020
Fall Break August 31–September 17, 2020

FALL QUARTER 2020
Classes Begin September 21, 2020
Graduation, Saturday, November 7, 2020
Thanksgiving Break Nov. 23–27, 2020
Classes End December 4, 2020
Winter Break Dec. 5, 2020–January 3, 2021

WINTER QUARTER 2021
Classes Begin January 4, 2021
Classes End March 14, 2021
Spring Break March 15–25, 2021

SPRING QUARTER 2021
Classes Begin March 26, 2021
Classes End June 6, 2021
Summer Break June 7–17, 2021

SUMMER QUARTER 2021
Classes Begin June 18, 2021
Classes End September 5, 2021
Fall Break September 6–16, 2021

FALL QUARTER 2021
Classes Begin September 24, 2021
Graduation, Saturday, November 6, 2021
Thanksgiving Break Nov. 22–26, 2021
Classes End December 12, 2021
Winter Break Dec. 13, 2021–January 2, 2022 (3 weeks)

WINTER QUARTER 2022
Classes Begin January 7, 2022
Classes End March 20, 2022
Spring Break March 21–31, 2022

SPRING QUARTER 2022
Classes Begin April 1, 2022
Classes End June 12, 2022
Summer Break June 13–23, 2022

SUMMER QUARTER 2022
Classes Begin June 24, 2022
Classes End September 11, 2022
Fall Break September 12–22, 2022 (2 weeks)

"Southwestern College has been an amazing part of my journey. This education endeavor as an art therapist has been a series of miracles for me. I've seen such a shift in myself. It's been a beautiful experience."

Crystal Hoffman, Graduate

"I'm honored to be applying myself in a clinical environment and my experience at Southwestern enabled me to not only work as an art therapist but to facilitate mindfulness groups. A dream within a dream job I had not even fathomed."

Anna Mills, Graduate

"My experience at Southwestern has been truly transformational. From the lessons learned in Consciousness class to my light figure project and vision quest. The impact on me and on my soul has been absolutely profound."

Stephanie Albury. Graduate 2012

"I'm thankful for everyone at Southwestern College...The deeper sense of myself has been seen, heard, honored and found. I'm so grateful to be able to share it with other people."

Cynthia Alexis, Graduate

"I chose to go back to school for my 50th birthday. Little did I know I would be re-birthed... This is sacred work for me. May the work that we do be of service and benefit to all."

Eliza Buck, Graduate

"This is the place that empowered me to do things the way that I do them, the way I'm good at doing them. I've come to surmise that to be an art therapist; to me means being an artist at therapy so the therapy is the art. The creative engagement with another, with each other, that is the art. "

Renee Borsberry, from Art Therapy Capstone Presentation

"The New Earth Institute of Southwestern College offers an array of educational and transformational opportunities to the community. It has been a rich and rewarding experience, enabling the college to grow and expand our mission of transforming consciousness through education. True education engages and awakens all parts of one’s being, allowing for the integration of mind, body and spirit. It cultivates reverence for life and nurtures us in the journey of the soul.”

Katherine Ninos, Vice President

"It has been an extremely amazing journey; the past two years. There has been a lot of pain, a lot of joy and a lot of learning. I think the thing I've learned the most about this experience is trusting the process."

Denise Moore, Graduate

"I feel so much gratitude for being part of this caring, supporting, reflective, soulful community."

Linnea Knoespel, Graduate

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