Cynthia Riggs ’53 Plots Murder and Revival of Antioch College

Date: 9/10/2009 to 10/10/2009
By Christian Feuerstein ‘94

Cynthia Riggs, a thirteenth-generation Islander, lives on Martha’s Vineyard in her family homestead, now a bed-and-breakfast catering to poets and writers. She has a degree in geology from Antioch College, an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College, and holds a U.S. Coast Guard Masters License (100-ton). Cynthia is the author of the best-selling Martha’s Vineyard mystery series featuring detective Victoria Trumbull.

AAUP: Faculty Input Was Largely Ignored in Closing Antioch College

Date: 9/8/2009 to 10/8/2009
An investigation by the American Association of University Professors
into the closing of Antioch College paints a detailed picture of how
administrators abandoned the institution’s longtime faculty-governance
procedures as they considered closing the liberal-arts institution in
2007.

The 60-page report on the investigation, released Tuesday, also says it
appears administrators did not explore alternatives to declaring
financial exigency a little more than two years ago as they considered
the college’s future.