Former community manager Deborah “Amina” Warfield has volunteered to co-moderate the meeting.

Some preliminary agenda items for the meeting:

How can the rebuilding Antioch College continue and improve upon its legacy of racial and social justice?
How can the college and the board pro tem improve the transparency of their communications?
How can the college maintain its legacy of community governance and meaningful participation in decision making?
How can the college develop more substantive volunteer opportunities?
What are the college’s responsibilities to the students, faculty and staff of the college when it was closed, and of the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute?
Introduction of the Antioch Community Student Union.

Some of the people who have volunteered to organize the meeting are:

Lincoln Alpern ’11, Antioch Community Student Union
Matthew H. Baya ’92, Community Manager 92-93
Michael Casselli ‘87
Art Dole ‘46, co-organizer Downeast Maine Chapter
Jonny Estes, Antioch Community Student Union
John Hempfling, Antioch Community Student Union
Chad Johnston ‘01, Alumni Board member elect
Ed M. Koziarski ‘97, Chicago chapter co-organizer
Foster Neill ‘07
Susan Opotow ‘65, Alumni Board member
David Renz ‘92
Travis Sanford ’94, Alumni Board member
Don Wallis ‘60, Alumni Board member
Deborah “Amina” Warfield ’92, Community Manager 92-93
J.D. Wood ‘88, New York Chapter co-chair

If you’d like to get involved or discuss the agenda for the meeting, please feel free to post to the ACAN list, acan or email Ed M. Koziarski. To post to ACAN, you need to subscribe

Antioch College will on Friday once again be an independent liberal arts college, after a successful effort by alumni to revive the college after it was closed in July 2008. Shown above are Antioch College alumni in June 2008 during their alumni reunion right before the campus was closed. The public is invited to an event in recognition of the college revival around 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 4, at the horseshoe in front of Main Building.

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Dennie Eagleson
Faculty, NonStop Liberal Arts Institute
Former Associate Professor, Antioch College
Antioch College Alum ‘71
May 9, 2009

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NonStop Liberal Arts Institute – Commencement 2009
Former Faculty, Staff, Students of Antioch College
May 9, 2009 – Yellow Springs, Ohio
nonstopinstitute.org/

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NonStop Liberal Arts Institute – Commencement 2009
Former Faculty, Staff, Students of Antioch College
May 9, 2009 – Yellow Springs, Ohio
nonstopinstitute.org/

Locked Campus Housing Forces Visiting Alumni to Sleep Outside During their Critical Annual Alumni Reunion Week

Yellow Springs, Ohio (June 21, 2008) – Over 450 Antioch College alumni traveled from across the United States to arrive at the pre-Civil War college campus, despite this year’s lack of reunion housing. Although a most recent announcement made by Antioch University officials, that stated that they were again willing to negotiate with alumni to keep Antioch College open, faculty members were locked out of their offices last week and all campus dormitories, which traditionally have housed alumni during the annual reunions, have remained locked and made unavailable to alumni, many traveling from as far as Portland, Oregon, New York, New York, Canada and Florida. In a response to the lack of housing and the continued conflicting actions of the university officials, Antioch College alumni created a “Tent City” on the most highly-used and visible lawn of the Yellow Springs campus, the “Horseshoe”, the lawn connecting Livermore Street to the historic Main Hall.

“We are claiming the most visible space on the campus as a sign that Antioch College is here to stay,” said Rowan Kaiser, Community Co-Manager for the 2008-2009 academic year of Antioch College, representing the voice of Antioch College alumni. “The college community will never stop working to reclaim the campus, the name, the assets, the heritage and the reputation of our Antioch College.”

Visiting Antioch College alumni have been sleeping in tents during the reunion with no access to hot or cold showers. At night, the Antioch campers have the use of portable toilets. “Not having access to basic facilities, like showers, beds and drinkable tap-water will not deter an Antiochian from participating in the movement to keep the college open,” said Chad Johnston, an alum from 2001 who traveled from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

The Antioch College alumni and entire Antioch College community of faculty, staff and Yellow Springs villagers invite the press to a brief press conference at 5:00 PM EST, on Saturday, June 21, 2008, on the grounds of the, “Tent City”.