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Antioch College Trustees to Meet this Weekend

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – January 19, 2011 – The governing board of Antioch College will meet in Yellow Springs this weekend, January 21-23. The public is invited to the open session at 1:30 p.m., Saturday, January 22.

Below is the agenda to the open session, which will be streamed from http://antiochcollege.org/media/live_stream.html.

1:30 p.m. Board reconvenes in the Herndon Gallery (Open to the Public) 

Comments from the Board Chair
Comments from the President
Committee Reports

2:00 p.m. Comments from Alumni Board President (Nancy Crow)

2:15 p.m. Report from Alumni Board Task Force on Faculty Hiring (Joe Foley)

2:45 p.m. Report from Task Force on Community and Community Governance (Jennifer Berman and Al Denman)

3:30 p.m. Faculty Hiring Update (Tom Kirk)

4:00 p.m. Accreditation Update (Len Clark)

4:30 p.m. Other Business

5:00 p.m. Recess

 

MEDIA CONTACT:
Gariot P. Louima ?
Director of Communications
Office: 937-319-6131
Mobile: 937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org

Antioch College Trustees to Meet this Weekend

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – January 19, 2011 – The governing board of Antioch College will meet in Yellow Springs this weekend, January 21-23. The public is invited to the open session at 1:30 p.m., Saturday, January 22.

Below is the agenda to the open session, which will be streamed from http://antiochcollege.org/media/live_stream.html.

1:30 p.m. Board reconvenes in the Herndon Gallery (Open to the Public) 

Comments from the Board Chair
Comments from the President
Committee Reports

2:00 p.m. Comments from Alumni Board President (Nancy Crow)

2:15 p.m. Report from Alumni Board Task Force on Faculty Hiring (Joe Foley)

2:45 p.m. Report from Task Force on Community and Community Governance (Jennifer Berman and Al Denman)

3:30 p.m. Faculty Hiring Update (Tom Kirk)

4:00 p.m. Accreditation Update (Len Clark)

4:30 p.m. Other Business

5:00 p.m. Recess

 

MEDIA CONTACT:
Gariot P. Louima ?
Director of Communications
Office: 937-319-6131
Mobile: 937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org

Alumni, supporters call on Antioch College to engage fired faculty in curriculum building and faculty hiring

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Ed M. Koziarski

As Antioch College prepares for its historic reopening this fall, many alumni and supporters who have worked to rescue the college are calling into question its policies toward faculty hiring and curriculum building.

Advocates for the tenured faculty of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, who were fired when Antioch University closed the college in 2008, are calling on the college to engage with those faculty in the process of building the college’s curriculum, and to offer those faculty first consideration for positions for which they are qualified in the reopened school.  14 tenured faculty from the closed college living in the Miami Valley are interested in teaching at the reopened college.  Educators nationwide are watching Antioch College as a test case in the ongoing struggle to maintain the tenure system and the tradition of academic freedom it protects.  See http://facultyjustice.org

Advocates hope to present their case at a meeting of the college’s governing Board Pro Tempore with new college president Mark Roosevelt, beginning this Friday, January 21 in Yellow Springs.

Antioch College has announced national searches for six initial core faculty positions, in a process that advocates argue unfairly excludes faculty who held tenure at the college before it closed.  Advocates for the faculty maintain that experience in teaching in Antioch College’s distinctly interactive, experiential, collaborative educational style is a skill that makes the college’s past faculty uniquely qualified to teach at the reopened college.  It is this teaching style that has produced the graduates who are innovators and humanitarians for which the college is known.  Advocates cry foul over the way the college markets itself on the strength of this teaching style, while shutting out those who have practiced it.

A report from the American Association of University Professors concluded that the college is professionally and ethically obligated to recognize the tenure of fired faculty.  The report states, in part: “The investigating committee trusts that the Antioch College Continuation Corporation will appreciate the fundamental importance of the tenure system and will offer reinstatement to those whose appointments terminated with the closing, restoring their tenure rights. Moreover, the committee trusts that the corporation will approve a system of shared governance when the college reopens, ensuring primary faculty responsibility for academic matters as called for in the Statement on Government of Colleges and Universities.”  See http://tiny.cc/aaupreport

In a letter to the college, the AAUP states “the AAUP would follow its standard procedures [for possible censure] in handling any complaints received from tenured Antioch faculty who subsequently asserted they were denied appointment to suitable positions at the college after it was reopened.”
See http://tiny.cc/aaupletter

868 alumni and supporters have signed a petition “to make all decisions about faculty hiring in consultation with the tenured faculty of the college who were improperly fired by Antioch University, and with representatives of the American Association of University Professors, and to offer tenured Antioch College faculty right of first refusal for positions for which they are qualified, according to AAUP guidelines.”  Petition signers include 391 alumni representing seven decades as well as 334 academic professionals from 158 educational institutions.  See http://petition.saveantioch.org

19 current and former elected members of the Antioch College Alumni Association Board of Directors signed an open letter to Roosevelt and the Board Pro Tempore in support of faculty.  The letter states: “Hiring former faculty for faculty roles in which they are qualified gives Antioch College the best chance for survival with an academic program that will be recognized as an Antioch College education… The college’s choice to pursue national searches does not recognize the unique experience and role of the former faculty.  It should be reversed immediately, before irreparable harm is done to our alumni community.”  See http://tiny.cc/alumniboard

Choreographer, Educator Sylvia Turner to Receive Antioch College’s Walter F. Anderson Award

photo of Sylvia C. Turner class of 67YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – January 13, 2011 – Antioch College announced today that award-winning choreographer and educator Sylvia C. Turner ’67, dean of fine & performing arts at Santa Ana College, will receive the Walter F. Anderson Award at Reunion 2011.

Presented in conjunction with Alumni of Courage for Diversity (formerly the Alumni of Color), the honor goes to former students or college employees for promoting racial and ethnic diversity within Antioch and beyond.

The theme of Reunion 2011, from June 16-19, will be "Science and Invention." Nobel Laureate Mario Capecchi '61 is set to deliver keynote address while alumnus Robert Greenwald ’66 will receive the Horace Mann Award for “winning victories for humanity.”

Turner has performed in the United States and Japan. She is a former member of the Ann Arbor Dance Theater, the Gloria Newman Dance Company, and was co-founder of Connect 3, a multimedia performance ensemble.

In addition to choreographing for nationally competitive skaters, Turner has written on ice skating choreography for Dance Magazine . Her choreography credits also include numerous main stage productions for South Coast Repertory; the SCR Educational Touring Program; “The Lion King Parade and Street Show” at Disneyland; an animated film for the Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas; “Bridge to Angel Island” for Ballet Pacifica; and a collaborative work “Bullwhip Days,” based on slave narratives.

Turner is former chair of the Santa Ana College Dance Department. Under her leadership, the department gained statewide recognition for excellence in instruction, high quality concert productions, and successful well-trained students. She has trained hundreds of students, many of whom have become successful performers, choreographers, and teachers.

Turner received the 1995 Santa Ana College Distinguished Faculty Award, and the 1996 RSCCD Award of Excellence for her sabbatical research. She has served as a dance adjudicator, a panelist for private and public granting agencies which support the arts, a master teacher, and presenter at national and international conferences. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Arts Orange County and is an active advocate for the arts and arts education.

MEDIA CONTACT
Gariot P. Louima
Director of Communications
937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org

Antioch College to Host Forum on ‘Establishing Community Norms’

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – January 13, 2011 – A task force reporting to Antioch College President Mark Roosevelt on community and community governance at the College will host a public forum titled “Establishing Community Norms” at 8:00 p.m., Friday, January 21.

The forum, streamed live from http://antiochcollege.org/media/live_stream.html, will be the culmination of a two-day meeting of the group that first convened last summer to create for the incoming class a framework for life in community on the campus in Yellow Springs.

Founded in 1850 as a residential liberal arts college, Antioch College earned an international reputation for its rigorous undergraduate curriculum, trendsetting cooperative work program and pioneering system of community governance that involved students and faculty in the governing of the institution.

Antioch College alumni and the Yellow Springs community are invited to participate in what promises to be a lively discourse moderated by Al Denman, an Antioch College emeritus professor of philosophy who chairs the task force.

Agenda for Public Task Force Meeting

Friday, January 20, 2011

  • 10:30 a.m. – Richard Maizell and Susan Mayer: Community, Orientation, Governance, and Healthy Norms

  • Noon – Lunch
  • 1:00 p.m. – Present Thinking on Governance
  • 1:30 p.m. – Former Faculty Present on Governance
  • 2:30 p.m. – Governance: Outline Tasks, Form Subcommittee
  • 3:30 p.m. – Break
  • 3:45 p.m. – Resume
  • 4:45 p.m. – Break
  • 5:00 p.m. – Final Thoughts & Assignments
  • 8:00 p.m. – Friday Forum: Establishing Community Norms

MEDIA CONTACT  
Gariot P. Louima
Director of Communications
937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org

Gregory M. Avis, David Goodman Join Antioch College’s Governing Board

Gregory Avis and David GoodmanYELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – January 13, 2011 – The Antioch College Board Pro Tempore voted recently to elect businessmen and philanthropists Gregory M. Avis and David Goodman as new trustees of the College, Board Vice Chair Frances Degen Horowitz announced.

“David Goodman and Greg Avis will bring to the work of rebuilding Antioch College their skills, their experience, and their wisdom,” Horowitz said. “We are fortunate to have their commitment to our common purposes.”

Avis and Goodman are scheduled to participate in the January 21-23 meeting of the Board Pro Tempore in Yellow Springs. Open sessions of the Board begin at 1:30 p.m., Saturday, January 22.

Goodman, a 1969 graduate of the College, is a principal of North Arrows LLC, which specializes in power and energy investments. He is also a founding partner and principal of e-Solar Properties LLC. In 1980, he founded United American Energy Corp. up to its sale in 2003. Prior to UAE, Goodman was employed for seven years by Grow Tunneling Corp. He is the president of The Andrew Goodman Foundation for Human Dignity and Civil Rights. The nonprofit is named in honor of his older brother Andrew, who with James Chaney and Michael Schwerner were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan on June 21, 1964, while pursuing voter registration for African Americans in Mississippi.

He has written and lectured on numerous subjects, including civil rights and the summer of 1964, independent energy project financing, alternative fuels for heavy duty vehicles, green building and general business matters in his areas of expertise. After earning a degree in civil engineering at Antioch College, Goodman earned an MBA from Stanford University in 1971.

Avis cofounded Summit Partners in 1984. Prior to Summit, he worked for McDonald & Company and Goldman, Sachs & Co. Avis has served as a director of many public and private companies. His past directorships include Digital Link Corporation (NASDAQ: DLNK), IMPAC Medical Systems (NASDAQ: IMPC), Integrated Systems (NASDAQ: INTS), NxTrend Technology (acquired by Infor Global Solutions), Powerwave Technologies (NASDAQ: PWAV), RightNow Technologies (NASDAQ: RNOW), Splash Technology Holdings (NASDAQ: SPLH) and TGV Software (acquired by Cisco Systems).

The chair of the Williams College Board of Trustees, Avis serves on the boards of the James Irvine Foundation, New Profit and ARTSTOR. He has also served on the boards of Silicon Valley Community Foundation (chair), the National Outdoor Leadership School and the San Jose Repertory Theatre (chair). Avis teaches mathematics at Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto. He holds a BA in political economy from Williams College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

About Antioch College
Originally founded in 1850, Antioch College redefined liberal arts education in the 20th century by initiating an entrepreneurial and experiential curriculum through the development of its hallmark cooperative work program. Many of the now-common elements of today's liberal arts education – self-designed majors, study abroad, interdisciplinary study, and portfolio evaluation – had an early start at Antioch College. Ownership of Antioch College was transferred from Antioch University to the Antioch College Continuation Corporation in September 2009. The newly independent College will admit its first class in the fall of 2011.

MEDIA CONTACT
Gariot P. Louima
Director of Communications
937-581-8201
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