Author: Faculty

Fairness begins at home

While Interim President Matthew Derr claims that the College will be conducting a completely transparent and fair faculty search process, Lee Morgan, Chair of the Board, informs us that “donors will not give to the College if the former faculty are favored over those turned up in national searches.” This statement creates the distinct impression that this supposedly ‘open’ hiring process would actually be biased against us.

An Open Letter from the AAUP to Antioch College

Excerpt: “…[T]he new College continues to invoke not only the history and legacy of the old institution and to bear the name and goodwill of the old, but to benefit from many of the tangible assets of the historic Antioch College, including the alumni, the campus and facilities, and the substantial endowment. The faculty of the old Antioch College, including those faulty who were laid off, were at the core of creating and sustaining those assets. Thus we believe that such benefits entail certain continuing responsibilities to those long standing employees who are qualified for and remain available for positions in the new college–especially the tenured faculty.”

Why should Antioch College follow the AAUP recommendations?

Excerpt: How ironic that the daily efforts of these very people to carry on the College’s mission of academic excellence in the face of steadily deteriorating infrastructure, staff cutbacks, faculty hiring freezes, and an unresponsive governance system—the very work and idealism that persuaded objective reviewers that the College and the University merited accreditation despite manifest institutional problems—has now been scapegoated as contributing to the College’s closure in an unsupported and opportunistic justification to begin with a ‘clean slate.’

Welcome to FacultyJustice.org

Excerpt: The Ad Hoc Tenured Faculty Committee announces the opening of facultyjustice.org, an online archive of letters and documents spanning 2008-2010.

This group of former tenured faculty of Antioch College, having lost their professional positions through Antioch University’s arbitrary and unnecessary closure of the College, is requesting that the new Antioch College Board of Trustees Pro Tempore agree to conduct a hiring process that acknowledges their former tenured status at the College and is consistent with the procedures and standards recommended by their professional organization, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Read The Full Story