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CHICAGO – December 14, 2010 – Antioch College Interim President Matthew A. Derr today accepted the CASE V Chief Executive Leadership Award for the role he played in negotiating for Antioch College’s independence and shepherding the organization in its first year of operation.

CASE V Chair Jeff Liebermann and CASE V Trustee Teresa Exline presented the award to Derr at the CASE District V Conference closing luncheon in Chicago. (Photograph: Liebermann, Derr and Exline)

“Those who came to Antioch’s rescue believed its loss represented something more significant than our individual experiences,” Derr said. “This was not an exercise in nostalgia; it is a cause based firmly on a clearly articulated set of educational and social values.”

Derr was nominated by Aimee Maruyama '96, a graduate of the college who today serves as director of foundation relations/senior major gifts officer; Dr. Scott Warren, an Arthur E. Morgan Fellow and a former professor of philosophy; and Dr. Richard Detweiler, president of the Great Lakes Colleges Association.

CASE District V includes members from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. Executive Leadership awards are an opportunity for CASE – the Council for Advancement and Support of Education – to applaud and promote the work and contributions of top educational executives. The awards recognize the president, chancellor, headmaster or system head of a CASE District V member institution for outstanding leadership and service in support of education.

CASE is an international association of education advancement officers, who include alumni administrators, fund raisers, public relations managers, publications editors, and government relations officers. The ultimate goal of advancement professionals is to enhance their institutions by bringing in support — be it in the form of money, alumni loyalty, public esteem, or new students. In turn, CASE's purpose is to help these people advance the cause of education. It does this by offering information resources and training opportunities to aid its members.

Derr was a member of the Antioch College Alumni Board and served on its Executive Committee. He played a key role in securing Antioch College’s independence and was the chief transition officer prior to his appointment as interim president of the college in the fall of 2009. His term as interim president ends on December 31, 2010. His successor, Mark Roosevelt, assumes the college presidency on January 1.

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

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – December 3, 2010 – Antioch College has announced that it will join with the African American Cultural Works as a co-host to the Martin Luther King Jr. Day March and Program on January 17, 2011.

Prexy Nesbitt ’67, a member of the Antioch College Board Pro Tempore, will deliver the keynote speech. Additional speakers will be announced in the coming weeks.

Following the MLK program, the Miami Valley Chapter of the Alumni Association will meet in South Hall’s Herndon Gallery. Mark Roosevelt, the College’s new president, will meet with alumni and the public. Roosevelt assumes office on January 1.

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YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – December 3, 2010 – Antioch College will bring together Jewish, Muslim and Christian scholars for “A Family Reunion at the Tent of Abraham: An Interfaith Dialogue in a New Key” at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 11, in the College’s The Coretta Scott King Center for Intellectual and Cultural Freedom.

The event is an opportunity to discuss the shared origins of the three religions, the similarities between representations of God in the Bible and Qur’an, and the influence of the Divine on the daily lives of believers.

“In a time when there is so much religious intolerance around the world, this dialogue will provide a model of how we can aspire to the best that lies within each of us,” said organizer Scott Warren, an Arthur E. Morgan Fellow and former professor of philosophy and politics at Antioch College.

Panelists will include:

• Wa’el Azmeh, M.D., Board Member of The Mercy Society/Islamic Center of Dayton and National Board Member of the Muslim Public Affairs Council.
• Ramzieh Azmeh, M.D., Ex-President of the Dayton Interfaith Trialogue and Board Member of the International Peace Museum.
• Eric L. Friedland, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies, Wright State University, the University of Dayton, United Theological Seminary, and Antioch College.
• Stephen Potthoff, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy, Wilmington College, where he teaches a wide variety of courses on topics ranging from Jesus and early Christianity to Native American spirituality.

For information, call 937-286-8984 or e-mail swarren@antiochcollege.org.

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
glouima@antiochcollege.org

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – December 3, 2010 – A group of Antioch College volunteers, primarily alumni, joined with staff to create the Volunteers for Antioch Maintenance Projects, or VAMP, a crew whose sole purpose is to perform building maintenance and repair to get the campus ready for the return of students in the fall of 2011.

VAMP was the brainchild of a number of alumni who were interested in donating at least a week of volunteer hours each month, Julian Sharp, manager of volunteer work, said. “They’re serving the emerging needs of the College.”

The first VAMP project is January 10-21, 2011, when the team will set up a maintenance shop in the Maples firehouse. Volunteers will be assigned work consistent with their skills and physical capabilities. There is work for skilled, semi-skilled, or not quite skilled volunteers.

Volunteers play an increasingly important role in readying the campus for the arrival of the first class since 2008. During the second week of November, a volunteer crew spent five days working in Pennell House, the Units and the Coretta Scott King Center.

They cleaned, primed and painted the porch at Pennell; replaced water-damaged drywall and sealed the glass block windows in the Units; and repaired windows on the south side of the Coretta Scott King Center.

Volunteers included: Jon Baker ’72, Eva Erickson ’11, Tom LaMers ’68, Evelyn LaMers ’69, Tom Sain ’08, Jim Spangler ’74, Garrett Miller ’11, Nat Freeman, Jenn Wheeler, Kyle Prueter, and Josh Miller of the campus facilities staff.

For information, contact Julian Sharp, manager of volunteer work, at jsharp@antiochcollege.org.

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – December 3, 2010 – A group of Antioch College volunteers, primarily alumni, joined with staff to create the Volunteers for Antioch Maintenance Projects, or VAMP, a crew whose sole purpose is to perform building maintenance and repair to get the campus ready for the return of students in the fall of 2011.

VAMP was the brainchild of a number of alumni who were interested in donating at least a week of volunteer hours each month, Julian Sharp, manager of volunteer work, said. “They’re serving the emerging needs of the College.”

The first VAMP project is January 10-21, 2011, when the team will set up a maintenance shop in the Maples firehouse. Volunteers will be assigned work consistent with their skills and physical capabilities. There is work for skilled, semi-skilled, or not quite skilled volunteers.

Volunteers play an increasingly important role in readying the campus for the arrival of the first class since 2008. During the second week of November, a volunteer crew spent five days working in Pennell House, the Units and the Coretta Scott King Center.

They cleaned, primed and painted the porch at Pennell; replaced water-damaged drywall and sealed the glass block windows in the Units; and repaired windows on the south side of the Coretta Scott King Center.

Volunteers included: Jon Baker ’72, Eva Erickson ’11, Tom LaMers ’68, Evelyn LaMers ’69, Tom Sain ’08, Jim Spangler ’74, Garrett Miller ’11, Nat Freeman, Jenn Wheeler, Kyle Prueter, and Josh Miller of the campus facilities staff.

For information, contact Julian Sharp, manager of volunteer work, at jsharp@antiochcollege.org.