[Discussion-AZC] Fwd: Breaking News from Antioch College

[Barbara Kohn]

Begin forwarded message:This may be of no interest to most of you -  
but some people have talked to me about Antioch and its
closing - so I thought you might want to read what is happening to  
reopen the college.  Barbara

> From: Nancy Crow '70 <newsletter at antiochians.org>
> Date: July 17, 2008 10:52:58 AM CDT
> To: barbara at austinzencenter.org
> Subject: Breaking News from Antioch College
> Reply-To: newsletter at antiochians.org
>
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> Dollars are needed to support the faculty and the Nonstop Liberal  
> Arts Institute, the Legal Defense Fund and an Independent Antioch  
> College.  Our most pressing need is for the Nonstop Liberal Arts  
> Institute at $1.5 million.  We need to show the Antioch faculty  
> that we support them and want them here when we get our college  
> back.  Please don't delay . . donate today.
>
>
> The College Revival Fund is now accepting online donations for  
> support of
> Nonstop Antioch.
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> Breaking News for Antioch College Alumni
> Antioch College Alumni Association Creates Framework
> for
> Plan to Open
> Independent Antioch College
> with Support from
> Antioch University Board of Trustees
>
> Great Lakes Colleges Association
> 535 W. William, Suite 301, Ann Arbor, MI 48103
> www.glca.org
>
> July 17, 2008 -- The Antioch University Board of Trustees  
> [Trustees] and the Board of Directors of the Antioch College Alumni  
> Association [Alumni] have agreed to move expeditiously to create a  
> new, fully independent, Antioch College to reopen at an early date.
>
> In response to a request from the Trustees to create a process for  
> an independent Antioch College, the Alumni several weeks ago moved  
> to create a collaborative taskforce to assist with the development  
> of plans requested by the Trustees. The objective of this process  
> is to craft a comprehensive strategy to allow Antioch College to  
> begin to rebuild immediately as a fully independent institution  
> while not jeopardizing the well-being or prospects for growth of  
> the remaining academic campuses of Antioch University. The  
> taskforce consists of two representatives of the Alumni (Matthew  
> Derr and Lee Morgan), two representatives of the Trustees (Dan  
> Fallon and Jack Merselis), and the Great Lakes Colleges Association  
> serving as an "honest broker" to function as advisor and  
> facilitator through its president, Richard Detweiler.
>
> The initial focus of the taskforce was to suggest a resolution, now  
> adopted by both the Trustees and the Alumni, authorizing the task  
> force to prepare a letter of intent outlining a full agreement. The  
> resolution stipulates the shared premises of this work. The  
> Corporation that is now Antioch University was called Antioch  
> College prior to 1977 and includes, in addition to Antioch College,  
> other campuses in Keene, NH, Los Angeles, CA, Santa Barbara, CA,  
> Seattle, WA, and Yellow Springs, OH. The resolution emphasizes the  
> common heritage shared by all of these institutions, and the  
> commitment to separating Antioch College to stand alone as a fully  
> independent residential liberal arts college.
>
> The taskforce is currently interviewing legal and financial  
> professionals who, working with and building upon the earlier work  
> of the University and alumni-related groups, will provide  
> independent counsel to the taskforce on the many issues involved in  
> separating the college from the university. The taskforce expects  
> to retain these experts soon.
>
> Two grants of $50,000 each have been received in support of the  
> work of the taskforce: one from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,  
> and the other from the Morgan Family Foundation.
>
> The Taskforce is moving swiftly. It is the express wish of both the  
> Alumni and the Trustees that an agreement be reached as soon as  
> possible.
>
>
>
> ###
>
> Founded in 1962, the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) is a  
> non-profit organization governed by twelve selective liberal arts  
> colleges in the Midwest: Albion, Allegheny, Antioch, DePauw,  
> Denison, Earlham, Hope, Kalamazoo, Kenyon, Oberlin, Ohio Wesleyan,  
> Wabash, and Wooster. Its purpose is to strengthen and extend edu- 
> cation in the tradition of the liberal arts and sciences. GLCA  
> often works conjointly with similar associations of liberal arts  
> colleges to enhance the strength and vitality of member institutions.
>
> For additional information contact: Charla White at 734.330.5122 or  
> email at white at glca.org.
>
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