2017-2019 Academic Calendar

2018-2019 Academic Calendar

Spring Quarter 2018
Recommended Application Deadline January 31
Classes Begin March 30, 2018
Classes End June 10, 2018
Summer Break June 11–21, 2018

Summer Quarter 2018
Classes Begin June 22, 2018
Annual Transformation and Healing
Conference, August, 2018
Classes End September 9, 2018
Fall Break September 10–20, 2018

Fall Quarter 2018
New Student Orientation September 20-23, 2017
Classes Begin September 21, 2018
Graduation, Saturday, November 10, 2018
Thanksgiving Break November 19–23, 2018
Classes End December 7, 2018
Winter Break December 8, 2018–January 3, 2019

Winter Quarter 2019
New Student Orientation week of January 7, 2019
Classes Begin January 4, 2019
Classes End March 17, 2019
Spring Break March 18–28, 2019

Spring Quarter 2019
Classes Begin March 29, 2019
Classes End June 9, 2019
Summer Break June 10–20, 2019

Summer Quarter 2019
Classes Begin June 21, 2019
Classes End September 8, 2019
Fall Break September 9–19, 2019

"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 2012

"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 2012

"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 2012

"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 2012

"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, Fall 2012.

"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 2013

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

Linnea Knoespel, Graduate 2013

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