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Ad Hoc Tenured Faculty Committee

http://facultyjustice.org/

A group of tenured former Antioch College faculty

The Ad Hoc Tenured Faculty Committee is a group of faculty members who held tenure at Antioch College prior to its June 2008 closure, and many participated in strategic educational and legal initiatives that were critical to the subsequent revival of Antioch College. The Ad Hoc Committee has advocated for the Antioch College Board of Trustees Pro Tempore to respect the recommendations of the June 2010 investigative report of American Association of University Professors (AAUP). The report states, “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.”

Agenda for Oct. 13-17: Presidential Interview, Board Meetings and Founders Day


PRESIDENTIAL INTERVIEW, BOARD MEETINGS & FOUNDERS DAY
AGENDA

OCTOBER 13 – 17, 2010

In recognition of the 160th year since founding and in celebration of one year of independence, Antioch College welcomes alumni and friends to campus for a series of events and meetings of the Alumni Association Board of Directors and the trustees of the Board Pro Tempore.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13

4:30 p.m. Antioch College Open Meeting and Q&A with Mark Roosevelt

6:30 p.m. National Coming Out Day Dinner & Reception (BPT/AB Members & College Staff)

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2010

7:45 a.m. Breakfast with Presidential Candidate Mark Roosevelt (Closed to Public)

8:45 a.m. Alumni Association Board of Directors Retreat (Closed to Public)

The Alumni Association Board of Directors will spend the day in retreat with support from Potomac Consulting as members prepare for the next phase of the board’s development and contribution to Antioch College.

6:30 p.m. Dinner at Winds Café – Private room above Wine Cellar (AB/BPT Members Only)

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2010

7:45 a.m. Breakfast at Birch Hall Commons (AB/BPT Members & staff in service to boards)

8:45 a.m. BPT Meeting at South Hall Conference Room (Closed to Public)

8:45 a.m. AB Meeting at Vernay Glen Helen Building (Open to Public)

AB Group #1 Committee Meetings

Chapters Committee

Communications Committee

Development Committee (Closed to Public)

10:30 a.m. Break

AB Group #2 Committee Meetings

Nominating Committee (Closed to Public)

Reunion Committee

Legal Committee

12:00 p.m. Both Board Meetings Recess

12:15 p.m. Luncheon at Birch Hall Commons (AB/BPT Members & Staff)

1:30 p.m. BPT Meeting Reconvenes at Herndon Gallery (Open to Public)

Report from the Alumni Association Board of Directors (Nancy Crow)

BPT Committee Reports

Report from the Presidential Search Committee (Frances Degen-Horowitz)

Report from the Advancement Committee (Barbara Slaner-Winslow)

Report from the Finance Committee (Lee Morgan for Ed Richard)

Report from the Facilities Committee (Matthew Derr for Allyn Hanson)

3:30 p.m. Break

3:45 p.m. Facilities Master Plan (Dean Brookie for John Feinberg – Consultant)

4:45 p.m. Center for the Performing Arts (Matthew Derr)

5:15 p.m. Other Business, as needed (Lee Morgan)

5:30 p.m. BPT Meeting Recesses

6:30 p.m. Founder’s Day Celebration – Goodman Amphitheater (Public Invited)

Antioch College was founded in Marion, New York by the Christian Connexion, now the United Church of Christ, in 1850; it was incorporated in 1852 in the State of Ohio and opened for classes in the fall of 1853 with 8 students. Tonight we informally celebrate our founders.

Barbeque with the Corndaddy

Outdoor Screening of the Serling film: “Changing of the Guard”

Bonfire and Dancing till Midnight with DJ Dr. Falafel

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2010

7:45 a.m. Breakfast at Birch Hall (AB/BPT Members & Staff in service to boards)

8:45 a.m. BPT Meeting Reconvenes at South Hall Conference Room (Closed to the Public)

8:45 a.m. AB Meeting Reconvenes at Vernay Glen Helen Building (Public Welcome)

Welcome & Other Business (Nancy Crow)

9:00 a.m. Fundraising 101: Chapter Involvement

9:30 a.m. AB Committee Reports

Report from Chapters Committee

Report from Communications Committee

Report from Development Committee

Report from Legal Committee

Report from Nominating Committee

Report from Reunion Committee

11:30 a.m. New Business

12:00 p.m. BPT Recesses & AB Adjourns

12:00 p.m. Box Luncheon (AB/BPT Board Members & College Staff)

12:45 p.m. Ringing of the Bell & Reading at the Horace Mann Obelisk (Public Welcome)

Horace Mann, first president of Antioch College, was an abolitionist and educational visionary. He was father of Antioch College and of the American public school. We celebrate his role in leading the College and for providing generations of Antiochians with the ethical direction to win victories for humanity.

1:15 p.m. State of the College near Horace Mann Obelisk (Weather Permitting – Public Welcome)

2:15 p.m. Board Pro Tempore Meeting Reconvenes in Herndon Gallery (Public Welcome)

BPT Committee Reports

Report from Community Governance Taskforce

Report from the Admission Committee

Olive Kettering Library

Antioch University Affiliation (Matthew)

Planning (Tom Kirk)

5:00 p.m. BPT Meeting Recesses

6:00 p.m. Emergent Visions: Young Antiochians Make Art at Herndon (Public Welcome)

7:00 p.m. Dinner at Folkmanis House (BPT/AB Board Members)

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2010

7:45 a.m. Breakfast at Folkmanis House (BPT Board Members Only)

8:45 a.m. BPT Meeting Reconvenes at Folkmanis House (Closed to Public)

1:30 p.m. Board Pro Tempore Meeting Adjourns

Antioch College seeks leader for revival – Pittsburgh Post Gazette


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Antioch College presidential candidate to visit – Yellow Springs News


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Antioch College Presidential Candidate to Visit Campus Oct. 13-14


Mark Roosevelt, a longtime education advocate and former state representative, has held the post of superintendent of Pittsburgh Public Schools since 2005. An Oct. 13 public meeting will be streamed live.

 

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – October 6, 2010 – Antioch College is pleased to announce that Pittsburgh Public Schools Superintendent Mark Roosevelt, one of two finalists for the position of college president, has accepted an invitation to visit the campus Oct. 13-14 for tours, a public forum, and meetings with staff and college leaders. The public forum will be held at 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 13 in South Hall's Herndon Gallery.

A Presidential Search Committee, led by Board Member Frances Degen Horowitz (class of '54), and search firm Isaacson, Miller vetted numerous applicants and nominees to the post. Two candidates were invited to campus, but a second candidate withdrew late in the process for personal reasons.

"We are all excited to have traveled this far and to see the talented and experienced people who have come before us," said Lee Morgan, chair of the Antioch College Board of Trustees. "We have great hopes for the successful conclusion of our search for our next president. Our work will continue until we have accomplished this aim."

Roosevelt holds a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College. He is a graduate of the Broad Urban Superintendent's Academy, an intensive executive management program designed to prepare educators and professionals from other fields to lead large city school systems. He has taught political science at Brandeis University, where he was also the director of the Gordon Public Policy Center, and currently teaches a course on the intersection of American history and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz Graduate School of Public Policy.

As a Massachusetts state representative, Roosevelt chaired the Education Committee, where he guided passage of the Education Reform Act of 1993, a landmark legislation providing the equitable resources and accountability measures necessary for school improvement. Roosevelt was also the lead sponsor of the 1989 Massachusetts Gay Rights Bill. In 1994, Roosevelt was the Democratic nominee for governor of Massachusetts.

After leading Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives, a publicly and privately funded nonprofit economic development agency, and acting as the managing director for the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, Roosevelt was appointed the superintendent of the Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS) in August of 2005.

Since that time he has pursued an aggressive reform agenda called "Excellence for All." Four years later, the district has a comprehensive plan to maximize effective teaching that is one of only four such efforts to win support through a highly competitive $40 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; a nationally recognized program to recruit, train, support and compensate principals as instructional leaders; a new more rigorous curriculum; and several new school models, including eight "Accelerated Learning Academies" for many of the district's most underserved students.

He is also the founder of The Pittsburgh Promise, a ground-breaking initiative that has already raised $150 million to guarantee as much as $10,000 per year in college scholarship dollars for PPS graduates who earn a GPA of 2.5 or better. The Promise now provides scholarships to over 1800 PPS graduates from the 2008 and 2009 graduating classes.

The Board welcomes and encourages Antioch College alumni to provide feedback on Mr. Roosevelt following the Oct. 13 meeting in Yellow Springs. To provide feedback, go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Antioch-College-presidential-feedback.

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.