As posted over at the Antiochians website. I thought I'd share it here also.

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From a staff person at Antioch:
1 in 5 employees are being terminated today

if only we had the big bucks in hand already

every time the phone rings we are thinking it is our turn

thanks to everyone...maybe we can derail this madness.

June 23, 2007 This document is the result of a community process facilitated by Antioch College Community Government, past and present. The role of Community Government is and has been to facilitate communication and collaborative decision-making with staff, students, faculty, and alumni to make Antioch College reflective of its community.

Today, Antioch College students, alumni, faculty and members of the Yellow Springs community came together to form plans to rescue Antioch College from immediate suspension of operations. This is a working
document, and does not represent foreclosure on further discussion, generation of options, or action.

We would like to add that it was our education at Antioch College and our experience with shared governance that made this process possible.

As community members, we invoke the spirit of Horace Mann when we say, "Be ashamed to let it die!"

The New Your Times has an op-ed opinion piece titled Where the Arts Were Too Liberal. While The Columbus Dispatch states Antioch sunk itself by refusing to evolve.

Both of which were found first by Patrick Cates and submitted to the Alumni-chat.

Peter Wood is Executive Director of the National Association of Scholars has an interesting article. Here are some clippings from it.

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I have been looking for what Antiochians of recent years think about the name of the College. The Antioch website, unusually for a college, has little to say about its history. In 2003, someone with the blogonym Yazz Cudd admirably declared "We owe it to Antioch's founders to 'keep the faith," (with appropriate scare quotes) and he did a little research on the topic. He discovered that ancient Antioch "really was a shining star of civilization... amazingly free from social and political oppression." According to Yazz, the founders of Antioch College, being highly educated folk, knew that the city was renowned for "artistic expression," and good architecture, "including basilicas, baths, and libraries of intricate and astonishing complexity and loveliness." Not to mention "variegated stonework employing brightly colored patterns and mosaics."

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I have conservative friends who, on hearing the news of Antioch's demise, said "Good riddance!" That doesn't seem to me quite right. Antioch had clearly lost its way and its closing does represent a judgment by Americans as a whole who were no longer willing to risk their children's education in such a venture. But Antioch once upon a time was a serious place. The catalogue of 1854 lays out admissions standards tougher than any American college or university today and a rigorous four-year curriculum requiring sciences, mathematics, Latin, Greek, French, and German, art, literature, engineering, and more. Today, we would call this elitist and damn it as impractical even if it were possible. But Antioch's founders opened their college to women and, though there was internal resistance, the College accepted black students as well.

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PS: The Yazz he keeps mentioning is my friend Yazz Cudd class of '66 if there was any confusion. Now if I only Peter would have linked to the article Yazz Cudd wrote...

The original e-mail was an interesting read and thought others should read it. The formatting may be missing some paragraphs and I'm to blame since I copied and pasted everything. The original is from the Alumni-chat.

The folowing was just released by the Board of Trustees:

Antioch College Suspends Operations to Design 21st Century Campus
State-of-the-Art Campus projected to open in 2012

YELLOW SPRINGS, OH- On June 9, 2007, Antioch University's Board of Trustees voted to suspend operations on July 1, 2008 of Antioch College, the University's undergraduate residential program in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with the intention of reopening a state-of-the art campus.

The Chancellor will establish a Design and Development Commission to determine the long-term future of the College with the intention of opening a re-developed undergraduate campus. An Academic Design Team will be appointed to design a new undergraduate curriculum reflecting the College's strong traditions and values while meeting the needs of today's students.

The College will continue to serve its current and newly accepted students with a strong academic program for the 2007-08 academic year.

I recently received a postcard in the mail asking to vote for the Antioch Alumni Association. The interesting thing about this years election is that you can only vote via an electronic ballot. Not mentioned on the postcard is the fact you will also be able to submit nominees for the "Antioch College Alumni Awards".

Now go forward and vote!

"Dear Fellow Antiochian,

Please take a few minutes to vote in this year's election for members of your Alumni Association. This year marks the third year that we are using an electronic ballot. The difference is that this year the electronic ballot will be your only ballot. On this electronic ballot, you will have an opportunity to select eight directors from a slate of 10 alumni who wish to serve you and the College. Eight directors will be elected to three-year terms and will meet in Yellow Springs three times a year. We have included on the website a brief biographical profile as well as a statement of candidacy provided by each of the 10 canidates running for election.

To cast your electronic vote, please go to:

http://www.antioch-college.edu/alumni/alumni/2007/index.html

The electronic ballot will be accessible May 16, 2007 to June 11, 2007. On behave of the Alumni Association, we thank you in advance for voting and hope to see you at Reunion 2007, June 22-24. Please contact the Office of Alumni Relations at 800-411-8780 or alumni@antioch-college.edu with and questions or conserns."