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Antioch College Action Network

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To truly reverse its closure, Antioch College needs to begin acting like it’s open, and begin building on its vibrant academic foundation to grow into a healthy, self-sufficient institution.

To make this happen, Antioch must immediately:

    • establish the College Advisory Board and invest it with real authority, including hiring a College President
    • remove internal barriers and begin recruiting and admitting new and transfer students for Fall ‘08
    • restore tenure and remove the threat of firing that hangs over faculty and staff
    • maintain all academic and support services during renovations
    • hold leadership accountable for past decisions and statements
    • ensure an open and participatory decision making process
    • guarantee a commitment from leadership to operate on principles of openness and honesty
    • have leaders committed to the turnaround of Antioch College
    • call for respect in communications from all university officials so the College’s already challenging task isn’t made more difficult

If you agree with this message lend your name to the cause by signing our online petition at acan.antiochians.org/

– Antioch College Action Network

The Antioch College Action Network is an informal coalition of students, faculty, staff, alumni, villagers and friends of the college. We will contact all those who sign about joining us once we have a chance to organize more.

Time to Move On

While drinking my routine cup of coffee in Emporium yesterday, my eyes lingered for a minute on the bright red flag near the window that reads “Antioch alive!” I remember thinking “Yeah… It is for now. But for how long?”

In spirit, the campus appears pretty dead right now; students and faculty are trying to secure a future at other institutions and alumni throughout the country are once again left without agency. Continue reading Time to Move On

The Future Of Admissions At Antioch

By Sarah Buckingham
“Its my understanding that we cannot currently accept applications for any students until the Ohio Board of Regents comes back with a decision,” said Robin Heise, Director of Financial Aid, this week. “We do have a few students who deferred their applications, so there will be new students in the spring, but just a handful, less than six.”
When the Antioch University Board of Trustees announced this summer it would suspend operations at the College, it also told the Ohio Board of Regents (OBR) that the College would cease awarding credits and conferring degrees at the end of December 2008. Now that the suspension has been lifted, the College needs permission from the OBR to continue granting degrees and credits beyond that date before admissions and recruitment efforts can begin. Continue reading The Future Of Admissions At Antioch

The Race Is On!

By Billy Joyce
A year after the MAN collective and the CCR collective created Facebook groups, filed applications, took pictures and put up posters, the community is again under siege.
Before, it was Marjorie Jensen, Anne Fletcher and Niko Kowel and Corri Frohlich, Chelsea Martens, and Rory Adams-Cheatham who stood in front of the community in McGregor 113. On Tues. it was a different group of students who humbly introduced themselves to the community.
The collectives, as they stand now, don’t have catchy nicknames: Jamila Hunter, Meghan Pergrem, Fela Pierrelouis, and for an encore Niko Kowell are running up against Nicole Bayani, Micah Canal, Sarah Buckingham, and Julian Sharp.
The news out of this forum is that each collective running for CG has four candidates. This is abnormal since there are only job descriptions and funding enough for three people. ComCil last week, as reported by CM/OM Corri Frohlich, deliberated for hours to accept the collectives’ proposals for a fourth member. Continue reading The Race Is On!

Sink the Captain Save the Ship

“I did not get this college into this mess, it’s been going on for 30 years, I’m here to get it out of the mess.” –Toni Murdock

If one thing has become evident this week, then it is that Toni Murdock is not the person to get Antioch out of this mess. While holding on to the claim that she did not build the sinking ship, she is not using the wisdom of the crew that sailed it for years. Meanwhile, she does not have the expertise to address the needs of the college, nor the willingness to learn about its history in order to tackle the systemic problems that prevent it from flourishing.
Her appearance in AdCil on Tuesday has once again made that clear.
Murdock’s interpretation of the joined resolution, two weeks ago, goes straight against that of the Alumni Board. Good faith indeed seems to be lost when seeing members of the AB shake their head in disbelief this week when hearing the chancellor convey her outline for the road ahead.
Following Toni’s vision, we cannot recruit students until “financially stable” another two years from now. Financial exigency, meanwhile, continues to be used as a means to terminate faculty and staff contracts, setting off an avalanche of insecurity across campus.
Current students fear their departments and community disappearing, and accepting new students in the near future does not seem to be part of the Murdock strategy for success. Continue reading Sink the Captain Save the Ship