Alumni_Board – Save Antioch College

ANTIOCH COLLEGE ALUMNI BOARD RAISES $80,200 FOR NONSTOP LIBERAL ARTS INSTITUTE

ANTIOCH COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

For Immediate Release

CONTACT:
Press

Yellow Springs, OH, October 25, 2008-Today, the Antioch College Alumni Board unanimously resolved to raise $255,000 by April 1, 2009 to fund the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute for the full academic year.

“We have pledged as a Board to raise an additional $255,000 needed to fund the full Nonstop program through June 30, 2009, because we know that the quality and creativity of the work being done here is important not only to the future of Antioch College, but also to the future of progressive liberal arts education in this country,” said Ellen Borgersen, Vice President of the Alumni Board. “Members of our Board have collectively spent hundreds of hours with Nonstop faculty, students and staff, and we want all of the alums who have not been able to be here in Yellow Springs to know that the education being offered is academically rigorous and infused with Antioch’s core values: the commitment to experiential learning, to community as a laboratory of democracy, and to winning victories for humanity.”

To kick off the fundraising initiative, this weekend the Antioch College Alumni Board raised $80,200 for the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute from its own members in both cash and pledges. That puts the Board over 60% of the way toward meeting its initial goal of raising of $135,000 by December 1, which will allow the Board to commit to funding Nonstop through June 30. Borgersen said, “We all dug really deep because we wanted to demonstrate our enthusiastic support for the incredible work that the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute faculty and staff have already done, and their exciting plans for the Spring semester.”

“What we have seen this weekend is awe inspiring,” she continued. “The Nonstop events have been incredibly rich, and to see current faculty and students interact with alums is to see that the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute really is the living heart and soul of Antioch College.

“It is critically important to keep the faculty engaged in teaching the Antioch College students of the near future as we await word from the task force that is working to separate Antioch College from Antioch University,” Borgersen concluded. “I urge all alums who care about the future of Antioch College to give now, and to give generously, to support the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute.”
Since the University Board of Trustees announced the suspension of operations in June 2007, alumni across the country have rallied to the defense of their 156 year old alma mater. 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.

Antioch Alumni Association Board Meeting Fall 2008

October 23-October 25, 2008

The Antioch College Alumni Association Board of Directors will gather in Yellow Springs this weekend for its annual fall meeting. The full agenda as well as events in and around town are listed below.

AGENDA

Location unless otherwise indicated: United Methodist Church,
(A) 202 S. Winter Street/Dayton Street

Thursday, October 23, 2008

9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.

Check-in

Location: (E) CRF Office, 716 Xenia Ave.

CRF Staff

5:00 p.m.- 7:00 p.m.

New Board Member Orientation

(dinner provided)

Location: (D) 140 Glen Street

Aimee Maruyama &

Ellen Borgersen

Friday, October 24, 2008
8:00 a.m.	Check-in and Breakfast	CRF Staff
8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.	Welcome and Introductions Consent Agenda. Matters the Exec C’tee believes to be non-controversial yet worthy of full-board action. Resolution re Alumni Board’s travel and student loan funds Resolution re honoring scholarship commitments to teach-out students	Ellen Borgersen
9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.	Nonstop Institute Presentation	Executive Collective
10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.	Greetings and Report from Seattle	Nancy Crow
10:45 a.m.-11:15 p.m.	Financial Reports	Risa Grimes Don Wallace
11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m.	Fundraising Goals and Priorities Break out into Column A Committees Association/Chapters Communications/Technology Development	Full Board discussion Gary Houseknecht Christian Feuerstein Risa Grimes
1:00 p.m.-1:45 p.m.	Lunch
1:45 p.m. -2:30 p.m.	Column A Committee Reports
2:30 p.m.- 3:15 p.m.	Dessert with Nonstop Community Potluck *Location: (B) John Bryan Community Center,*
3:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m.	Community Meeting *Location: (B) John Bryan Community Center* will include report from Facilities/October 1 C’tee

Saturday, October 25, 2008
8:00 a.m.	Breakfast
8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.	Column B Committee Meetings Nominating (closed) Reunion	Tim Klass Aimee Maruyama
10:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.	Break
10:45 a.m.-11:45 p.m.	Column B Committee Reports (Portions Closed)
12:00 p.m-1:00 p.m.	Lunch
1:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m.	CRF Board Meeting (portions closed) Commitment to Nonstop Budget approval Transition issues
4:00 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.	Meeting Wrap-up	Nancy Crow and Ellen Borgersen
6:30p.m. – 10:00 p.m.	Dinner, Film followed by remarks from Paula Treichler. Lasagna dinner and drinks with the nonstop community, $10 donation per person suggested to cover expenses.	Michael Casselli’s Studio (C) 305 N. Walnut Street

Here is a link to the Nonstop Festival calendar, which includes a lovely map showing where all of the locations are.

http://nonstopinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ns_festweek_homecoming.pdf

Map of Meeting Locations

View Larger Map

Campus Facilities Update from Nancy Crow, President, Alumni Board of Directors

UPDATE: I have attempted repeatedly to contact Tom Faecke, the University’s CFO. I am strongly urging him in my role as a Trustee that he agree to the reasonable and entirely sensible plan of alumni representatives walking through the campus and taking an inventory of what currently exists on the Antioch College campus. I will remind him that we can easily remove caches of books and papers that we deem valuable, making sure that there is no fire hazard, while still securing our history and legacy.

Noreen Dresser, one of the co-chairs of the Facilities committee, was recently in Yellow Springs for a couple of days to review the current situation on the ground. She has prepared a most enlightening a report, with constructive suggestions on moving forward in collaboration with the Village of Yellow Springs. As many of you know, Noreen has many years experience with facilities and building management, and is quite passionate about making sure the buildings on our historic campus are secure, undamaged, and ready for rehab as soon as we have secured an agreement for the transfer of the campus to the College Board Pro Tem. After the Alumni Association Executive Committee and our Facilities Committee have an opportunity to digest the report, we will share her findings and suggestions for next steps with the community.

Intrepid alumni on the ground in Yellow Springs recently discovered that the University’s clean-up crew has been throwing out books and pamphlets. Many thanks to Gerry Bello ’97 and Tim Noble ’02 for making
this discovery, and to Gerry for calling me. As I said to him then, the idea of books being tossed is like a knife in my heart. These books are emphatically *not* subpar items, such as broken furniture or mold-covered mattresses, that would have to be discarded no matter what. These books and papers, many of them irreplaceable, are a catalogued and erstwhile organized treasure trove of our shared history, and as such, are priceless. They are also part of the legacy for future generations of Antiochians, some of whom are preparing to start classes right now with the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute. No Antioch alum can condone this action; it must stop.

The Alumni Board’s Facilities Committee had asked Milt Thompson for the chance to walk through campus and take an inventory. Milt’s boss, Tom Faecke, has not authorized Milt to pursue this sensible, easily-achieved plan. We recognize that Mr. Faecke is working on a limited budget and is carrying out the task he was assigned of cleaning out and securing buildings, but we strongly urge him to permit the Alumni Board’s
authorized representatives to remove caches of paper and memorabilia rather than pitch books and records, regardless of their historic value.

The Alumni Board facilities committee offers to work with the University to halt this needless destruction, and to agree to the common-sense solution of having representatives of the alumni take inventory. Yes, we can avoid misunderstandings and still protect the campus against fire by letting authorized alumni representatives walk through the campus and take inventory. The University Board of Trustees, on which I sit, in its June 7th resolution to start the planning for separation of the College from the University, acknowledged that the future of Antioch College rests on the shoulders of its alumni. We cannot build a future without the incredible work and materials of alumni of past generations.

We are still ashamed to let it die!

–Nancy Crow, ’70
President, Antioch College Alumni Association

First Five Members Named to Antioch College Board of Trustees Pro Tem

The Antioch College Alumni Board of Directors announced that it has named the first 5 members to the College Board of Trustees Pro Tem. This initial group includes Matthew Derr ’89, Atis Folkmanis ’62, Frances Degen Horowitz ’54, Lee Morgan ’66, and Barbara Slaner Winslow ’68. These first five members represent a broad range of skills, but share steadfast dedication to Antioch College.

More members will be named shortly. While naming the first members of the Board Pro Tem is an exciting step, it is a step that is done in tandem with the Task Force working to effect a separation of Antioch College and Antioch University. Last week, we reported that the Task Force had hired consultants to assist with legal and financial issues.

The initial members of the Board Pro Tem have been idenitified by the Committee on Trustees. The Committee on Trustees included representatives from the Alumni Board, the Antioch College Continuation Corporation, Nonstop, and the broader alumni community. It drew on the previous work of the Governance Committee to identify candidates for the first Board of Trustees to focus solely on Antioch College in over thirty years.

Alumni Board Charge to the Antioch College Board of Trustees Pro Tem

In this extraordinary moment in the history of Antioch College, you have been invited by the Antioch College Alumni Association Board of Directors, the elected body representing over 17,000 college alumni, to serve as a member of the Antioch College Board of Trustees Pro Tem. [Download]

As a member of the first board devoted exclusively to leading Antioch College in forty years, you are asked to lead the College in partnership with its key stakeholders through the current crisis, and to lay the foundation for its return to prominence and leadership as a residential liberal arts college based in our long-standing tradition of academic excellence, community governance and cooperative education. Further, this is a call to re-create an independent and thriving Antioch College that adheres to its historic mission while growing and adapting to the ever-changing social, technological, environmental and financial opportunities and challenges of the 21st century.

For more than a year, college alumni, faculty, staff, students and friends from the Village of Yellow Springs and around the world have committed themselves to sustaining the vision, spirit and soul of Antioch College in preparation for the opportunity to appoint a board of an independent college. The community is grateful for your willingness to accept this weighty responsibility and stands ready to support you. We pledge our talent, time and financial resources to restore Antioch College’s historic stature and reputation.

In the tradition of Antioch College, and in keeping with the trust this invitation represents on the part of our community, we call upon the Board Pro Tem to acknowledge and honor the essential role that community governance will continue to play at Antioch College. In preparation for the conclusion of the pro tem period of board leadership in thirty-six months, the Alumni Board further calls upon you to engage the community in the process of transitioning to a permanent Board of Trustee structure, and to continue to reflect a commitment to community governance in the vision, mission and by-laws, of the corporation that will ultimately own and govern the College.

In June of 2007 and again in June of 2008, the Alumni Association affirmed its commitment to the future of Antioch College in the form of resolutions passed by those in attendance at reunion and by the Antioch College Alumni Board. We ask that you review these resolutions carefully and consider the valuable insight they can provide to you as you begin your service.

Finally, you are called upon to take the measure of your success as a board from Horace Mann’s exhortation, in the same fashion that all Antiochians have for generations: “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”

Preparation for a New, Fully Independent Antioch College Aided by New Advisors

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Download

August 8, 2008 Contact: Charla White 734.661.2340

Antioch College Alumni Association and Antioch University Board of Trustees Continue Collaboration; Preparation for a New, Fully Independent Antioch College Aided by New Advisors

Yellow Springs, OH – Responding to an invitation from the Antioch University Board of Trustees, the Antioch College Alumni Association has devised a process leading to a new, fully independent Antioch College. In a continuing effort to move expeditiously, the process has called for the taskforce to craft a Letter of Intent as part of a comprehensive plan to be presented to the Board of Trustees. The task force consists of two representatives of the Antioch College Alumni Association, two representatives of the Antioch University Board of Trustees, and the President of the Great Lakes Colleges Association as the mediator.

With the assistance of the Great Lakes Colleges Association, the taskforce interviewed legal and financial professionals in early July. It has now asked these advisors to build upon the earlier work of the University and alumni-related groups. The advisors will provide independent counsel to the mediator and the taskforce on many of the issues involved in separating the College from the University.

George K. Baum & Company, an investment banking firm with an industry-leading municipal bond business and a strong presence in investment banking has been retained. Their clients include many liberal arts colleges and universities. For more information regarding George K. Baum & Company please visit www.gkbaum.com.

Also retained is the Higher Education Practice Group of Bond, Schoeneck and King, PLLC. This legal team is comprised of attorneys who provide a full range of services on issues related to colleges and universities. For more information of Bond, Schoeneck and King, PLLC visit www.bsk.com.

In the coming weeks, the taskforce and its advisors will be working closely with representatives from Antioch University and the Antioch College Alumni Association.

###

Founded in 1962, the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) is a non-profit organization governed by thirteen selective liberal arts colleges in the Midwest: Albion, Allegheny, Antioch, DePauw, Denison, Earlham, Hope, Kalamazoo, Kenyon, Oberlin, Ohio Wesleyan, Wabash, and Wooster. Its purpose is to strengthen and extend education in the tradition of the liberal arts and sciences. GLCA often works conjointly with similar associations of liberal arts colleges to enhance the strength and vitality of member institutions. For additional information contact: Charla White at 734.330.5122 or email.