ACAN – Page 99 – Save Antioch College

Sign on to ACAN’s Call to Action

To truly reverse its closure, Antioch College needs to begin acting like it’s open, and begin building on its vibrant academic foundation to grow into a healthy, self-sufficient institution.

To make this happen, Antioch must immediately:

establish the College Advisory Board and invest it with real authority, including hiring a College President
remove internal barriers and begin recruiting and admitting new and transfer students for Fall 2008
restore tenure and remove the threat of firing that hangs over faculty and staff
maintain all academic and support services during renovations
hold leadership accountable for past decisions and statements
ensure an open and participatory decision making process
guarantee a commitment from leadership to operate on principles of openness and honesty
have leaders committed to the turnaround of Antioch College
call for respect in communications from all university officials so the College’s already challenging task isn’t made more difficult

Sincerely,

the Antioch College Action Network

Petition Signatures:

dietrich olivier delrieu-schulze ‘04
Peter King ‘86
Beryl Radin
Jessica Davis ‘07
Julie Couillard Alexander ‘62
Lincoln Alpern, ‘11
Roz Houseknecht
Beth Moloney 95
Madeline Helser
Sara Eklund Payne
Susan Eklund-Leen
Michael Durant ‘08
Christopher Caron
Emma Emmmerich
Abigail Anzalone
Ashley Briscoe ‘03
Leslie Pope ‘77
Karen Lane
Derrick Lane
Sarah Buckingham
niko kowell ‘08
Don Davidson
Diana Brittain
Marysia Walcerz, ‘11
Michael Bare ‘02
Massimo Petrozzi
Caroline Nappo
Barbara “Barrie” Dallas Grenell
Brandy Ellis ‘02
nick szuberla
Jude Filler
Raina Daniels ‘05ish
Carl Hyde
Markrid Izquierdo
Margo Lowenstein ‘90
carol milliman
Hannah Becker ‘01
Kathy Varro Andersen
Marj Dole ‘46
janet kotler
Judith Wolert-Maldonado ‘05
Flan Fry ‘58
Patricia Dair
Pamela Olsen, Ph.D. (’68)
chris hill
Katherine Anne Stansbury ‘87
Lisa Lexier
Lucy Wollin
Terry Blackhawk ‘68
Michelle Hansen
Brian Springer
Matthew Arnold ‘99
David E. Apter
Kyle F. Bennett ‘95
James A. Hobart
Robin Simons
Tim Eubanks
Don Wallace ‘60
Richard Noble ‘68
David Thelen
Susan Opotow ‘65
Merry Tucker ‘68
Sharon Feigon
Jaimie Weihrich ‘81
Jeff Wood
Joanna Redfield Vaughn
Basia Miller ‘59
Barbara Esbin
E. Daniel Ayres
Bob Devine
Michael-David (Rogers) BenDor ‘67
David Hodges ‘71
Joe Foti ‘02
Karen Kotiw
Lee Azzarello, ‘00
Kimberly Davidson
Larraine Granger
Alexandra Kesman ‘08
antonia gaambacorta
Sonia Jaffe Robbins ‘65
Maribeth Joy McManus ‘00
emily sepik ‘02
Monica Friedman ‘96
Donna J. Katz
Steve Andrews, ‘63
Jane Slater
Kelly Connolly ‘03
Susan Neuwirth Beal, ‘62
Paula Kreisberg Ulrich 59
Carl Ulrich 59
Erica Burkhart
Otha Davenport
dennie eagleson
Linda Pasachnik ‘79
Jessamy Kroth
PAT PAYETTE
Tony Dallas
Kristen Swanbeck
Migiwa Orimo
Rosalie Harris
Sandy Coulter
Jean Schreier ‘69
Craig Newberger
Marilyn Scheinman Shteir
Judith Greenwald Voet ‘63
Shelby Chestnut ‘05
Laura Fathauer ‘95
Deborah Warfield
Cynthia Beth Rubin ‘72
Pegene W. McPhaden
tim noble ‘02
Gerry Bello ‘97
Bunny Shagaloff Crumpacker ‘55
Jonny No
michael casselli
Mavis Gruver ‘03
Alicson Knowland
Katherine Tully
beth gutelius ‘00
J. Greg Williams ‘95
Ed M. Koziarski ‘97
David K. Chazen ‘77
Barbara Solow ‘80
Bert Ellentuck ‘51
Chad Johnston ‘01
Nora Newcombe ‘72
Nathaniel Clark
Roman Rossell
Laurie Powsner
megan rosado ‘97
Susan Greene
Barry Rogers
e. ryerson ‘97
Matthew Baya ‘92
Ed3
Rowan Kaiser ‘05

Antioch College is Currently Accepting Applications for Transfer Students!

Antioch College will remain OPEN!

We are very excited to let you know that the suspension of operations has been lifted. Read the news here.

We are currently accepting applications for transfer students. For more information, please call (937) 769-1100 or email us today at Admissions!

In the near future, we hope to be accepting applications for first-year students as well.
Please stay tuned for more information. In the meantime, we welcome all prospective students to be in touch with your questions.

To apply to Antioch College you will need to submit the following:

1. We use The Common Application. You can immediately download a transfer application from The Common Application. Applying online will be available soon!

2. A personal essay of approximately 500 words.

3. A College Instructor Evaluation (this can also be downloaded from The Common Application).

4. A College Official’s Report (this can also be downloaded from The Common Application).

5. An official sealed transcript from your college or university.

All application materials should be sent to:

Office of Admissions and Financial Aid
Antioch College
795 Livermore St.
Yellow Springs, OH 45387

As Progressive Education Fades, Vermonters Mobilize

by Kevin J. Kelley for Seven Days, Wednesday, November 28, 2007

VERMONT — Throughout its 150-year existence, Ohio’s Antioch College has produced an eclectic group of graduates. The college’s best-known alum is Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Antioch is also the alma mater of “Twilight Zone” creator Rod Serling. Then there are lesser-known names, such as Robert Manry, who sailed a 13-foot sailboat across the Atlantic Ocean.

But in the Green Mountain State, we’re more familiar with names such as Jeb Spaulding, the state treasurer; Elizabeth Skarie wife of Ben & Jerry’s Jerry Greenfield; and Casey Murrow, son of famed newsman Edward R. Murrow. These and other dedicated Vermonters who attended Antioch College are taking part in a national campaign to save the 155-year-old Yellow Springs-based school from closing, due to declining enrollment and an insufficient endowment. Two hundred thirty students attend today’s Antioch, compared to more than 2000 in the 1960s.

Local Antioch alums and dropouts alike say they’re moved to help rescue the college because of what they see as congruence between Vermont’s ethic of neighborliness and town meeting-style democracy, and Antioch’s commitment to participatory governance. They also say the school’s pending end marks a disturbing trend in progressive college closings.

“Antioch has an amazing spirit of community,” says Jill Wolcott, a member of the Class of ’74 and co-organizer of the Vermont/Upstate New York Chapter of Antioch Alumni. The Shelburne resident says her current involvement with Charlotte’s co-housing movement and with the Waldorf School in Shelburne can be traced to her experience at the unconventional college.

“Antioch does give people a belief in their own self-determination and their responsibility for their lives,” she adds.

Skarie says the college forms “part of my identity I’ll never shed” — even though she left Antioch in 1971 only a year and a half after enrolling. “I went because it’s a politically active school,” the Williston resident and philanthropist explains. Skarie runs a foundation with Greenfield. She eventually received a nursing degree from Cornell — and returned to Antioch for a Master’s in counseling. Robin Lloyd

At an October 18 meeting at the Burlington home of Robin Lloyd — a former Antioch student who is known in Vermont as a longtime peace activist, filmmaker and publisher of the progressive online journal Toward Freedom — local supporters mapped plans for fundraising on behalf of the college. Lloyd didn’t end up graduating from Antioch, but some of the roughly 160 Vermonters who did already have contributed to an $18 million pledge drive. Wolcott, head of the local alumni chapter, says she can’t specify the sum of these private donations.

The fundraising effort was enough to persuade Antioch’s trustees to shelve their June decision to close the school next year. But the trustees also warned earlier this month that at least an additional $45 million must be raised by 2010 if the college is to remain open. The college also operates a New England graduate school in Keene, N.H., as well as campuses in Seattle, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara.

Fundraising poses special challenges for a school whose graduates practice its ideal of social justice, Skarie notes. “It’s hard for Antioch to be financially viable because the students who become lawyers tend to work for Legal Aid and the doctors end up treating a lot of patients for free,” she notes.

It’s vital that the school continue to operate as “a bastion of progressive education,” says Amanda Calder, a Shelburne resident who graduated from Antioch earlier this year. The termination in 2002 of Goddard College’s residential undergraduate program acted as a “motivator” for her involvement in the save-Antioch campaign, says Calder. “We can’t keep losing these progressive institutions,” she adds, noting that New Hampshire’s Franconia College — a school with a similar philosophy — has been shuttered as well.

Lloyd says her life has been strongly influenced by Antioch’s pioneering co-op program, through which students leave campus to work in a variety of settings while continuing their studies. She recalls traveling to Africa with her father, anti-colonialist campaigner William Lloyd, as part of the co-op program while she was enrolled at Antioch in 1957 and 1958. She transferred to Brandeis University in Massachusetts after marrying a student there. She still remembers learning the Horah, an Israeli folk dance, in an Antioch campus gathering spot affectionately known as Red Square.

http://7dvt.com/2007/progressive-education-fades-vermonters-mobilize

Statement from Nancy Crow Regarding the Recent Meeting Between Some Major Donors and the UBoT

Dan Fallon, Chair of the Antioch University Board of Trustees (“UBoT”) Governance Committee and UBoT Vice Chair, hosted a group of major donors to the College Revival Fund and former trustees who are deeply committed to the sustainable future of Antioch College. Other participants included UBoT Chair Art Zucker (by telephone), Alumni Board Vice President Ina Frank, Alumni Board Legal Team and Governance Committee Member Judi Church, UBoT consultant Tom Ingram and your humble Alumni Board President.

Everyone at the meeting agreed, in keeping with the November 2, 2007 Agreements in Principle, that Antioch College must be in control of its own destiny, through its own Board of Trustees. The discussion revolved around the degree of that Board’s authority and autonomy and the timetable for its establishment. A number of the donors and former trustees who participated are on the list of proposed members for the “Advisory Body” to be appointed by Art Zucker and Nancy Crow. They made it very clear that they have no intention of serving on a body whose advice the UBoT (soon to become the Antioch University Board of Governors) would be free to accept, reject or ignore, and pressed for meaningful and increasing authority for the interim body and the future College Board of Trustees.

Our discussions were frank, open and intense. We applaud the Board of Trustees for being willing to hear governance issues that are key to saving the college expressed by people with the wherewithal to make it happen. It’s not over yet; we will continue to talk – very soon. The former trustees presented a draft memorandum of understanding proposing a rapid time frame for establishing the College Board of Trustees and setting forth a number of specific areas that must lie within its control to ensure that the College and University not sink yet again into a dysfunctional structure. It will be discussed at the already-scheduled meeting of the University Board of Trustees Governance Committee, on which I sit, this Sunday, 12/2, in Dallas. Several of the participants in Monday’s meeting will attend that meeting. With good will and good fortune, a proposal that students, faculty, alums and major donors can support will emerge from that meeting and be approved as rapidly as fiduciary duty allows by the University Board of Trustees.

Nancy Crow, President
Antioch College Alumni Association

A Letter from Nancy Crow, President of the Alumni Board, to the Current Students of Antioch College

To the fantastic and courageous students of Antioch College (and future alumni):

Before you all take your richly deserved fall break, I wanted to share a couple of thoughts with you. Many of you are going home to celebrate Thanksgiving, and we Antiochians have a few things to be thankful for ourselves.

Antioch College is OPEN. In just four short months, Antioch went from announcing its suspension of operations to staying open past June 2008. A lot of hard work went into this victory, including the hard work, support, organization and activism of the current students and Community Government. You have all shown yourselves to be true Antiochians and I am proud–and honored–to have stood shoulder to shoulder with you on campus, at chapter meetings, and online. You are all, individually and collectively, a bright shining beacon of Antioch’s future.

Please know that the entire Alumni Board shares my feelings about the current student body. We support your Antioch education; we wish you to have the same gift of the Antioch experience that we all had. The Alumni Board members range from graduates of the ’50s to the ’00s, and we are all committed to making sure you all have the opportunity to graduate from our beloved College. When you return from the Thanksgiving break, do meet with the faculty to ensure that the College will offer the curriculum you need to meet your graduation requirements and educational goals.

There have been a lot of back-and-forth conversations about new students. Please know that transfer students and first years students WILL be admitted as soon as possible. We are working very hard with the University Board of Trustees to make this happen. There will be new-to-Antioch students in the Fall of 2008, and we’re depending on you to show them the Antioch way–negotiating classroom, community and co-op; teaching them about shared governance and community responsibility; and most importantly, what the heck each “Cil” is and what all the acronyms mean. (Cheat sheet, anyone?)

But right now, some of you are going home. Lots of you are off to visit family and friends, and no doubt Antioch will be at the tip of everyone’s tongue and the centerpiece of a lot of conversations. Feel free to pat yourselves on the back. Feel free to let family and friends know that, once again, Antioch has made history–and that you were a part of it. Rest up, and we’ll see you back on campus in a week or so, ready to tackle Antioch’s new beginning.

Thank you for everything, and have a fantastic and safe fall break.

Be ashamed to let it die!

–Nancy Crow, President, Antioch College Alumni Board

ACAN Ad #1 – We Have Your Back

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WE HAVE YOUR BACK

A Message from Supporters of Community Governance

For every generation of Antiochians there comes a defining moment – a moment to stand up for our shared values and to use our strength in the service of our vision.

This time is now. We want the Antioch College Community to know that we, who have engaged in Community Governance, have your back at this critical time. We acknowledge the difficulty of doing so while not being there with you, but wish to make our intentions clear.

As the campus Antioch Community, you are showing the world the value of an Antioch education. You are taking action to enable people you may never know, people you may never meet, to access an Antioch education and go on to win victories for humanity. Continue reading ACAN Ad #1 – We Have Your Back

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