WE HAVE YOUR BACK
A Message from Supporters of Community Governance
For every generation of Antiochians there comes a defining moment – a moment to stand up for our shared values and to use our strength in the service of our vision. Continue reading We Have Your Back
Antioch College, Celebrating 155 Years of Market Tested Toughness
By Billy Joyce
It’s only just begun. Community Meeting was charged with anger and uncertainty this week. With the decision to lift the suspension of operations obliterating the past and only halfway tracing the future, distrust of the university’s minions and its board of trustees runs high.
University Vice Chancellor and Spokesperson Mary Lou LaPierre jockeyed for Community Member of the Week honors this week by putting a heroic spin on this past weekend’s Board of Trustees decision to lift the suspension of operations. Continue reading Dispatches from Community Meeting
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
I was surprised by my initial emotional response to the announcement that my alma mater was going to close. I was shocked and extremely upset. I graduated from Antioch College almost 14 years ago, and I still consider my decision to transfer to Antioch as one of the best decisions I ever made. The fact that my school may cease to exist was just incredibly depressing. Continue reading Letter from Bethany Sansing ’93
By Jeanne Kay
“The numbers change everyday”, emphasized Janice Kinghorn, Associate Professor of Economics working in the Office of Transition. Since Antioch has adopted yet another acronym last June, the OT has been busy working individually with students to provide them with orientation and help in this time of crisis; it has also been trying to keep track of who will be returning to campus in the Fall. The uncertain state of affairs, however, makes it difficult to keep a steady count of the student population. “A lot of parents call and ask: ‘What’s going to be left there?’ I must answer that I don’t know”, confesses Kinghorn.
