Meet the President

In February of 2007, Neal King was appointed President of Antioch University Los Angeles, which celebrates its 37th Anniversary this fall. Previously the campus had been partnered with its sister campus in Santa Barbara and had been known collectively as Antioch University Southern California. When AULA was established as an independent campus in early 2007, President King’s appointment made him the first President of Antioch University Los Angeles. Raised in Southern California, President King’s inauguration in October 2007 marked his homecoming to the greater Los Angeles region.

A psychologist by training, he was awarded both his M.A. and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, and was in private practice in Northern California for fourteen years. During his prestigious career he has served in a variety of faculty and administrative positions in non-profit, international, public and private for-profit and state settings. He began his career as an educator as a high school English teacher and counselor.

President King was the founding director of the Doctorate in Psychology program at John F. Kennedy University in the San Francisco Bay Area, the founding Orange County, California campus President of the University of Sarasota, and Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at a small art and design college in Colorado. President King joined Antioch University in the fall of 2004 as Antioch New England’s Academic Dean and nine months later was appointed interim President there. Additionally, President King currently serves as a volunteer consultant for three of the six regional accrediting bodies for Higher Education in the United States.

Both at Antioch University New England and at Antioch University Los Angeles, President King has created a vision that emphasizes collaboration, transparency, academic quality, shared governance, and open communication with the campus community. Antioch University is an institution of conscience and purpose with “a mission and core values that resonate strongly” with President King’s own commitment to social justice and academic excellence.