Minutes taken and submitted by Corri Frohlich
Operations Manager/Community Manager
cfrohlich@antioch-college.edu
Tuesday July 3rd, 2007
Welcome
Chelsea welcomed everyone to the 3rd community meeting of the summer. She explained that the purpose of this meeting is to regroup after Reunion and
to foster transparency of operations and information within the College.
Announcements
Rory, the CG Events Manager, announced she is looking for suggestions for activities/events for faculty and staff this summer.
Milt Thompson will now be overseeing Physical Plant due to recent lay-offs.
Department Updates:
CG: CG held a community meeting this past Saturday during Reunion weekend. The Community Meeting broke into 3 break-out groups (Governance/Legal, Communications, and Finance) designated by a group of past and present CMs. From the Community Meeting the CMs created an Action Items document. From this document, The Alumni Board created 3 committees: Governance, Communications and Development. The Action Items document produced from Community Meeting is available on first class. Governance Committee Update: Chelsea, the CG Liaison, reported that this committee is currently looking into the possibility of creating a new governance board for the College and researching the history of the governance structure between the College and the University.
Communication Committee Update: Rory, the CG Liaison, reported that she would send out weekly updates to alumni about campus happenings via www.Antiochioans.org. CG is delivering pledge cards to local businesses in Yellow Springs for the revival fund. The committee is also working on a possible alumni music festival in conjunction with some sort of fundraising event. Dennie Eagleson is working on a testimonials project with alumni about their time
here at Antioch. CG is also working on bringing alumni back to campus to participate in themed panel discussions, such as past Record Editors, SOPP and RDPP advocates. The committee is also discussing a possible welcome back committee for when students return to campus. This welcome back committee could use the alumni music festival to do this.
Development Committee Update: As of Monday (July 2nd, 2007) evening the efforts of the Antioch community members raised $525,000.00 for the Antioch Revival Fund. Corri, the CG Liaison, reported that this committee is functioning in a few subcommittees including Individual Giving Subcommittee and
Foundation Raising Subcommittee. Alumni are participating in several phone conferences to brainstorm their connections to foundations and
potential donors to Antioch College and in the process of soliciting donations.
Office of Transition: John Smith, of the Academic Support Center, reported on the newly formed Office of Transition (OT). This is a new
office put together quickly after the announcement of the suspension of operations. The OT has ended up overlapping with already existing offices
including Admissions, Housing, Dean of faculty, etc. It started out as a help-line via a cell phone which Janice Kinghorn staffs from 10am-10pm 7
days a week. The number for the OT is (937) 681-5924. There is now an OT first class conference under Community Forum. You can email the
conference directly at transition@antioch-college.edu. John confirmed that all of the incoming first years have been contacted. Angie Glukov from Admissions reported that the number of confirmed first years entering Antioch this fall changes daily. All current and incoming students have now been contacted. Students should now know what their options are and be in the process of making these decisions. OT is currently figuring out who can graduate due to the changes in the Walker Petition requirements. More information concerning this can be located on the official OT webpage which can be found via the main college website, www.antioch-college.edu. Admissions is working very hard to connect Antioch students with the consortia of colleges to which students can transfer. The OT will work with students one on one for the rest of the year. Eli Nettles is the point lady for this undertaking. The OT is aided by John Smith, Janice Kinghorn, Joyce Morrissey, Angie Glukov and Jen Rhyner in Admissions, Robin Heise in Financial Aid and many other College employees who are offering their services on a daily basis. The
best estimate of total numbers of students here in the fall is roughly 175-228. Admissions is currently monitoring Facebook as a channel for communication about Antioch. John also reported that there would be one learning community this fall. Classes for fall semester will be posted next week, so students can start registering as soon as next week. Students might want to be on campus before registering for courses online and talk with their advisors about the courses they need. New students are scheduled to arrive on August 23rd and returning students on August 26th.
Financial Aid: Robin Heise reported that Financial Aid is currently trying to find out who’s coming back and which students they have to package for financial aid. All returning students need to let a College administrator know whether or not they are returning in the fall and the administrator will see that this information gets passed on to the appropriate offices.
Admissions: Angie informed the community that the first College Fair would be Friday afternoon September 14th. Presently, Admissions is working on an announcement for the Community regarding the College Fair.
Yellow Springs Residents in Support of the Antioch College Revival Resolution:
Judy Wolert-Maldonado, a representative from the Yellow Springs group, reported on their recent meetings. The Yellow Springs residents started organizing after the community meeting during reunion and have had ongoing meetings since then. They are currently organizing an emergency town meeting for this Tuesday, July 10th at 7:30pm in the
Presbyterian Church in Yellow Springs. They are presently contacting different constituencies in the College to have representation from the entire Antioch and Yellow Springs community at the meeting. Antioch College President Steve Lawry and University Chancellor Toni Murdock will be out of town and Antioch College Public Relations representative Lynda Sirk will be sent in Toni Murdock’s place. The meeting is open to all and the media will be there. Currently, they are forming an agenda. There is also a letter writing committee that came out of the Yellow Springs group. So far there are 155 signatures.
Development: Aimee Maruyama, Associate Director of Alumni Relations, reported on the Alumni Office’s recent activities. They are working on establishing new alumni chapters. They are currently putting alumni lists together for 30-40 chapters all over the country. Aimee will get a list out of the new chapters as soon as they are finalized.
President’s Office: Steve Lawry could not make the meeting today due to a scheduling conflict. Corri, the Operations Manager, briefed the community on CG’s recent meeting with Steve. Steve attended two alumni
events recently, one in Boston and the other in DC. A BOT member was also present for each of these meetings to field questions about their decision to close Antioch.
Pulse:
Survival Guide: Due to the very specific nature of this year, a typical Survival Guide won’t necessarily be the best way to serve the community. CG will meet with Departments individually to discuss what information they want in the Survival Guide. CG will also move this discussion onto Pulse online next week so students and other community members off campus have a chance to discuss what they want/need from this year’s Survival Guide.
Lay-Offs: Many concerns were raised about the recent lay-offs. CG will be posting the positions that were cut later this week. Questions were raised about who made the decisions on the positions that were cut, the
challenges that different categories of employees are facing (specifically in regards to non-union staff), and in general how the College will function with the lack of support and work due to the recent lay-offs.