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“Antioch’s Near Death and Revival as a Learning Experience” – Michael Brower ’55

Antioch College is based on both classroom and real world learning. Let’s look at our recent Near-Death and Revival asking What happened? What did and didn’t work? What could we learn? Here are my own 12 learning areas.

1. Organizing, not blaming. What worked was not complaining and blaming, but lots of organizing and dialogue with help from everybody – Faculty, Students, Alums, AND from the majority of Trustees, who, believe it or not, really do want Antioch College to survive, be healthy, and thrive. Lesson? Involve, don’t blame. Continue reading “Antioch’s Near Death and Revival as a Learning Experience” – Michael Brower ’55

Letter from Steve Mooser ‘72

To Antioch Students,

I am over at a conference in Europe and immersed in the duties of participating in that. I read the NYTimes dispatch which indicated in part that after the initial euphoria among students last Saturday, there was concern because nothing in the “historic agreement” was firm and permanent about the future of the college. There are multiple conditions, provisions and questions.
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Letter from Mary L. McCubbin ’75

I’m probably the only student who saw Antioch president James Dixon (who started the off-campus centers that became elements of Antioch University) walk to and from the main building to fire then chancellor F.X. Shea in 1975. Students, concerned alumni, and faculty appealed to the trustees who met in the Antioch Inn dining room and decided to fire Dr. Dixon and reinstate Dr. Shea

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Letter from Carl Hyde ’48

To the Editor and the students:

Along with the euphoria of knowing that our beloved college will not die I have a feeling of great respect and gratitude to the current students. You have been the kind of students that best represent the ideals of Antioch. It is of great importance that you all came in September, even though you had no assurance that you could complete your education here. That fact, and your calm, mature presence during the weekend of the board meeting played a significant role in the outcome.

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Letter from Dan C. Shoemaker ’92

November 5, 2007
(Guy Fawkes Day)

For the sake of all current Antioch students, I am pleased to hear that the planned suspension of operations has been lifted. However, as an alum, I am deeply disappointed with the bargain that has been struck between my elected Alumni Board representatives and the Antioch University Board of Trustees.

“When will we learn that treating with the University is like courting the embrace of a strangling vine?”

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