JOIN THE YSO PICKET OF THE UNIVERSITY’S MCGREGOR SCHOOL CAMPUS

Join us! 11AM to 1PM, Saturday, March 15, YSO residents and other local folks, students, faculty, union members and other staff, and alums will picket the University at its McGregor campus, 900 Dayton Street, in Yellow Springs. We will demand that the University Board of Trustees negotiate in good faith toward creating an independent, ongoing Antioch College.

It would help the harassed coordinators if those coming from out of town could make their own arrangements for transportation and places to stay, but a contact person for out-of-towners will soon be identified.

ANTIOCH COLLEGE ALUMNI COMMIT TO “NON-STOP ANTIOCH”

— United Alumni Vow College Will Remain Open —

For Immediate Release

CONTACT: 443-864-0514 • press

March 2, 2008– The Boards of the Antioch College Alumni Association and the College Revival Fund (CRF), Inc., met this weekend and resolved to keep the legendary Antioch College alive and open in Yellow Springs, Ohio for the next academic year and beyond. In response to the Antioch University Board of Trustees’ unilateral announcement that the College would be closed on June 30, 2008, alumni met with students, staff, faculty and townspeople to plan for “non-stop Antioch.” Alumni Board President Nancy Crow said, “We will not let it die.”

Ellen Borgersen, Vice-President of both the Association and the CRF, told students in an on-campus meeting that the alumni are ” ready to say that Antioch College will be open in Yellow Springs next year, no matter how the on-going negotiations between the University Trustees and the Antioch College Continuation Corporation (ACCC) turn out. We have willing and eager faculty, a dedicated student body and. The CRF has committed at least $1 million to unconditionally support them.”

Negotiations between the ACCC and the University Trustees continue, Borgersen said, “and we are hopeful that they will succeed. If they do, we’ll be ready to run the College on this campus without interruption. If they don’t, we’ll find someplace else in Yellow Springs to operate, and we’ll to fight to reclaim the campus and the College’s other assets from a University administration that seems bent on destroying everything Antioch has ever stood for.”

“But it’s time to stop pretending that the University is negotiating in good faith with the ACCC,” she added. “The University is clearly trying to force people to abandon hope and leave, knowing that it will be impossible to bring the College back once that happens. This is not only bad faith, it is untenable, and Antioch alumni will not stand for this deceptive behavior.”

The Alumni Board also directed its Legal Committee to “explore all legal avenues to protect the name, assets and reputation of Antioch College,” and resolved to “support, financially and otherwise” any legal actions that might be brought by faculty, students, staff, donors, and others with an interest in the survival of the College. The faculty already filed a lawsuit against the University and the Board of Trustees. It was withdrawn without prejudice last October, which means that it can be re-filed at any time.

“The alumni are working to continue Antioch College,” says Alumni Board President Nancy Crow. “The alumni are resourceful, passionate, energetic, and most importantly, persistent. Antioch College provides a unique and important education for America’s future leaders. Its survival is important not just for the Antioch and Yellow Springs communities, but for everyone who values liberal arts education and the critical role it plays in producing engaged citizens and vibrant democracies.”

Vice-President Ellen Borgersen adds, “The University Board of Trustees and the University Chancellor Toni Murdock should know that we are not going away. Non-Stop Antioch means Antioch College for our time, and Antioch College for all time.”

Since the University Board of Trustees announced the suspension of operations in June 2007, alumni across the country have rallied to their alma mater’s defense. Alumni chapters have grown worldwide. The Alumni Board is continuing with its fundraising and planning efforts. For additional information on the Antioch College Alumni Association and the College Revival Fund, visit the Antioch College Alumni Association web site, antiochians.org.

ANTIOCH COLLEGE ALUMNI BOARD VOWS TO CONTINUE FIGHT TO KEEP COLLEGE OPEN

ANTIOCH COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

For Immediate Release

CONTACT: 443-864-0514 • press

ANTIOCH COLLEGE ALUMNI BOARD VOWS TO CONTINUE FIGHT TO KEEP COLLEGE OPEN

–Meeting February 29th — March 2nd to Consider Next Steps–


Yellow Springs, Ohio, February 26, 2008– Just a few days after the Antioch University Board of Trustees unilaterally announced the closure of Antioch College for the 2008-2009 academic year, the Antioch College Alumni Board announced a renewed commitment to its ongoing and unprecedented efforts to keep the College open.

“The Board of Trustees’ announcement, released as the Antioch College Continuation Corporation was in the midst of good-faith negotiations with that Board, was ill-timed,” said Alumni Board President Nancy Crow.

Alumni Board Vice-President Ellen Borgersen added, “The announcement appears designed to break the resolve of the many dedicated alumni who support an open, independent Antioch College.”

She went on to say, “This strategy has completely backfired. We will not let it die.”

When asked about next steps, Borgersen said, “The Alumni Board is considering a number of options, including legal remedies and direct action. We welcome alumni input as we move forward.”

The Alumni Board is scheduled to meet this weekend, February 29-March 2, at the College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The agenda includes an open discussion of strategy, where alumni will continue the discussion of direct action and communication strategies, and will determine immediate next steps to be taken by the 17,000-member Alumni Association. All alumni are invited to attend these meetings. A final schedule and link to a live stream of audio from the meetings will be made available on the Alumni Board’s web site, www.antiochians.org.

Crow continued, “The University has made it clear that it does not intend to operate the College after June 30, 2008. The alumni are here, with an abundance of energy, vision, talent, and commitments of at least $18 million that will be available to an open and independent Antioch College. We fully intend to pick up the pieces, engage thousands of alumni, and shape the next 155 years of Antioch College.”

Since the University Board of Trustees announced the suspension of operations in June 2007, alumni across the country have rallied to their alma mater’s defense. Alumni chapters have grown worldwide. The Alumni Board is continuing with its fundraising and planning efforts. For additional information on the Antioch College Alumni Association and its College Revival Fund, visit the Antioch College Alumni Association web site, www.antiochians.org.

Alumni Board Spring 2008 Meeting Agenda

Antioch Alumni Association Board

Weston Hall

February 29-March 2, 2008

*All sessions will be held in Weston Hall unless otherwise noted. Continental breakfasts will be available on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in Weston.

Friday, February 29, 2008

8:00 a.m. Breakfast CLOSED

8:30 a.m.-9 a.m. Welcome and Introductions, Approval of Minutes by Nancy Crow, President

9 a.m.-10:30 a.m. State of the College Panel Discussion TBD

10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Strategic Planning for the Future Roles and
Goals of the Alumni Association and the College.

12:30 p.m. -1:30 p.m. Lunch in Cafeteria Students, faculty and
staff invited

1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Ad Hoc Committees:

Governance & Legal–Chair: Ellen Borgersen

Admissions–Chair: Kristen Pett

IT–Chair: Michael Heffernan

Accreditation/Faculty Liaison–Chairs: Dave Thelen/Catherine Jordan

3:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m. Community Meeting 113 McGregor

5:30p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Community Supper. Speaker: Alumni Board President Nancy Crow “Where we are now, where we are not and where we are going.” Cafeteria.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

8:00 a.m. Breakfast CLOSED

8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Group I Committees:

Association–Chair: Mike Brower

Communications–Chair: Christian Feuerstein

Development–Chair: Matthew Derr

10:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m. Break

10:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Group II Committee Meetings

Nominating (Closed Session to discuss Award nominees/Secretary Nomination)–Chair: Tim Klass

Reunion–Chair: Bradley Wilburn

*Working Lunch for Board Members

1:00 p.m-3:00 p.m. RDPP Panel

3:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m. Group I Committee Reports

4:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m. Group II Committee Reports

5:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Wrap Up

7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. People Of Color Mixer & Networking Social

Where: Coretta Scott King Center Lobby
What: Community building and social networking activity
Point Person: Daniel Solis y Martinez and Shelby Chesnut

7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. White Anti-Racist Meeting & Networking Social

Where: Birch
What: Community building and social networking activity
Point Person: Lauren Hind

10:00 p.m. Community Dance

Where: Dance Space
What: Fun
Point Person: Jamila Hunter

Sunday, March 2, 2008

8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Wrap Up
9:30 a.m.-12:00 noon CRF Board Meeting

Antioch College Supporters Call for Good Faith Negotiations by Antioch University

Supporters of Antioch College call on Antioch University to negotiate in good faith over the future of the college. The university issued conflicting statements Friday about the state of talks that could keep the historic college open.

Andrzej Bloch, Antioch College Interim President, stated Friday in an open meeting at the college that Antioch University trustees did not hold a vote on the future of Antioch College. However, a university press release the same day stated that Antioch College would not be open at the start of the 2008-2009 academic year.

Initial reports in the media stated negotiations to transfer authority of Antioch College to the recently established Antioch College Continuation Corporation (ACCC) failed. Sources close to the talks indicate that negotiations continue, and the Board of Trustees have expressed a willingness to continue discussions with the ACCC.

Meeting Sunday, members of the coalition of college supporters known as the Antioch College Action Network (ACAN) rejected the University’s statement that the College would suspend operations June 30. ACAN understands that Antioch College will not operate under Antioch University beyond June 30th, but that does not preclude operations under the new corporation ACCC. While hopeful of a positive outcome to the negotiations, ACAN is committed to developing bold, creative initiatives and actions to support continuous operations of the college.

Alumni raised $18 million in cash and pledges to keep the college open, and the nine members of the ACCC have personally pledged $8.5 million. The trustees have thus far balked at the ACCC’s offer to acquire the college.

According to Antioch University’s own press release, the Board of Trustees continues to negotiate a possible transfer of Antioch College to the ACCC. If this transfer is successful, it is possible that Antioch College will begin operations under the new corporation for the 2008-2009 academic year.

If Antioch College is transferred to a new corporation, Antioch University would not be responsible for the decision to resume operations under a new corporation for the 2008-2009 academic year.

ACAN members believe that by publicizing the apparent closure of Antioch College on Friday, February 22nd, Antioch University administrators may not have acted in the previously agreed upon mutual good faith and may have damaged delicate negotiations, demoralizing the college community.

ACAN members are asking the Antioch University administration to publicly address these issues: 1) the inconsistencies between Bloch’s statement and the university’s press release; 2) the source of the statement that Antioch College will not operate in 2008-2009; and 3) the Trustees’ plan for the continuation of the negotiations with the ACCC.

ACAN members also call into question the experience, competence and objectivity of the Feasibility Work Group charged by the trustees with evaluating the ACCC proposal. The Work Group includes members who have demonstrated public hostility to the college, none of whom attended the college, and none of whom has expertise in private residential liberal arts education.

University chancellor Toni Murdock, who serves on the Work Group, was the subject of no confidence votes by the faculty, staff and students of the college, as well as by the faculty of Antioch Seattle, where she previously served as president.

ACAN is an independent collective of autonomous alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends of Antioch College and villagers of Yellow Springs. ACAN is a grassroots movement working collaboratively for a continuous and sustainable future for Antioch College. ACAN has no affiliation with Antioch University, the Antioch College Continuation Corporation, the Antioch University Board of Trustees, or the Antioch College Alumni Association. ACAN is responsible for the content of this statement. For more information about ACAN visit http://saveantioch.org/


The following people signed on to this statement between 02/25/08 – 04/15/08.

Matt Ornstein (Maples 94-96)
M. Vetter ‘74
Drew Cobucci
Vanessa McDonnell ‘02
Callie Cary ‘84
Lesley A Pownall Bahr “83
Eric Gottlieb
Wendy Lanner Rossen ‘68
Mark Heise ‘07 McGregor Grad
Pat Edwards ‘70
Maya Daurio
Richard Campbell
James Russell
Ralph Wells
Shadrach A. Stanleigh ‘87
Christine wands
Kate Sterling
Harold L. Yarger ‘62
J. Greg Williams ‘95
Marianne Connolly ‘80
Jaimie Weihrich ‘81
Robert Kolodny ‘62
Beth Moloney ‘95
Sara D. Brown
Peter McGraw ‘65
Rosemary Linares
Raina Daniels
George Bohichik
David Raphael
Joan Kleban ‘73
Katherine Anne Stansbury 73-77, ‘87
Allan L. Jones
Jane Rago
Suzanne (Zann) Avery ‘92
Deborah Schuessler (Horowitz) ‘75
Megan Reynolds ‘95
Flan Fry ‘58
Jan BenDor, ‘67
Rosann Rayome Goldblatt ‘81
Mandy Stone
Randy Reiss 94′
Kim Corfman
Tom Bingenheimer ‘70
Joseph Smith
Evan Keraminas
Shannon McKeehen
Lillian Duran
patrick kelly
payrick kelly
Joanna Vaughn
Michael E. Gage ‘71
Ellen Samson LaBarbera ‘71
Daniel Solis y Martinez ‘06, CG ‘05- ‘06
William Parke-Sutherland ‘06
Maribeth Joy McManus
Janis Crystal Lipzin
Bernard Kaplan
Emily Sepik
Mitch Kaplan ‘71
Bert Ellentuck
Alexa Hardy ‘08
Joel Ellinwood
Roman Rossell
Phillip Hough
Amy Monaco
Carl H. Haag
Kenneth Frederick
Sylvia Stanat
Joseph G. Zinman
mark t watchman
Jennifer Vorih, ‘86
Marc J. Masurovsky, ‘77
Elizabeth Richards ‘06
Stephanie Knol ‘01
Stacy Gochnour ‘92
Patricia Dair ‘74
Kyle Bennett ‘95
Susi Gregg Fowler
Basia Miller, ‘59
Miriam Sagan
Jude Filler
Sharon Levine
Lucy Carol Davis
Nina Bennett
Barbara Solow
Lydia Gibson ‘97
Shelley Powsner
Richard Maizell, Psy.D. ‘74
Laurie Powsner
Andrew Barnes
Kelly Connolly ‘03
Janice Brown Meltzer ‘69
Donna June Katz
Elizabeth Foster Oktay ‘59
carol milliman
Hope Anne Nathan
Tom Boothe ‘91
Kenn Chandler
Mark Sheppard
Carl Hyde
Cynthia Chernoff
Lisa Deiches
Britney Myer
Yubecca Bragg ‘97
Ilse Moon ‘53
Alexander Borowicz ‘11
Michael-David (Rogers) BenDor, ‘67
Marj Dole ‘46
Ruth Moore Halcomb
Mary Bennett
Tom Ayrsman ‘79
Maurya Orr ‘04, CG ‘04
Shelley Sperling
Don Wallace ‘60
Leisa Schaim ‘01
Nathaniel Clark
Tim Eubanks
Chad Johnston
Barbara Naidoff Lewis ‘71
Barbara Esbin
Art Dole
Kim McQuaid
Valeda Stull, 2002
Robin Heise-Director of Financial Aid
Calista Tompkins Hendrickson ‘63
Marjorie Jensen ‘07
Amy Campbell ‘07
Jeff Wood ‘88
Stephen L. Wasby
Charlie Doering ‘77
Anne Marie Garti
Priscilla Zink
Judith Church
Donald Stanat
abby pike
Peter Townsend
David Hodges ‘71
Richard Noble ‘68
Robert Abrams
Caeli Good
Kristen Swanbeck
Sara Eklund Payne
Miriam Rushfinn
Ann Frye
Michael Casselli
Johnny Wilson
Otha Davenport
Lucy A. Wollin
Alexandra Kesman ‘08
Michelle Hansen
Barry Rogers ‘78
Kim-Jenna Jurriaans ‘08
Monica Friedman ‘96
Dave Ream
Stephanie Scott ‘89
Tim Noble ‘02
Mark Weiss
Dorothy McCurdy Keeler
Michael I. Vickers, ‘69
Ed M. Koziarski ‘97
Reva Borenstein Metzger
Paula Kreisberg Ulrich ‘59
Margaret R. Lynd ‘70
Jessamay Kroth ‘97
Robin Simons ‘92
Steve Andrews, ‘63
Jennifer S. Peters
Cynthia Beth Rubin ‘72
Barbara Kasper
Tekla Taylor Lagway
Alan Siege
Ian McPhaden
Dan C. Shoemaker, ‘92
Anne Turyn
Brian Springer
Rowan Kaiser ‘05
beth gutelius ‘00
Amy Shaw ‘97
Jane Slater, Class of ‘80
susan greene ‘77
Carl E Ulrich ‘59
Laura Fathauer ‘95
megan rosado ‘97
Ed Trippel ‘92, CG ‘93
Matthew Baya ‘92