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The Boston Chapter of the Antioch College Alumni Association
Invites you to a Fall Symposium…

Reinventing Liberal Arts Education for the 21st Century:
Promising Directions for a New Antioch College
Saturday, November 15, 2008

Dudley House, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
(near Harvard Square Red Line stop)

AGENDA
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Morning Session: 9:00 – 11:30 a.m.
From Past to Future: Lessons from Experience and Imagination
A Facilitated Roundtable Discussion
Lunch (on your own) :  11:30 a.m. — 1:00 p.m.
Afternoon Session: 1:00 – 5:30 p.m.

Updates:

Status – Negotiations to Re-Open Antioch College
Lee Morgan Class of ’66, College Trustee Pro Tem

The Nonstop Institute and Antioch College Revival Fund
Hassan Rahmanian, Executive Collective Member, Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute

Keynote Speaker

Trends in Higher Education: Peril and Promise
Cary Nelson,  Antioch College Class of ‘67
President, American Association of University Professors

Panel Discussions
Service Learning & Co-operative Work-Study Programs
Inquiry-based Studies in Science and Environmental Sustainability
Computer Technology, the Internet,  & Innovative Classroom Learning
Education for Participation in Democracy

Social Hour and Dinner 5:30 – 8:00 p.m.
($30.00 advance contribution)
Proceeds to benefit the Nonstop Institute and the College Revival Fund
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Map & Directions To Harvard University, Dudley House

www.map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=camb_allston&tile=F7&quadrant=C&series=N

RSVP by November 2 to Barbara Wallraff,
Boston Chapter, Antioch College Alumni Association
barbara@wordcourt.com or call her at
617-365-9068
Please indicate which you plan to attend: morning session, afternoon session, and dinner

Full Agenda Below:

Draft Agenda

Symposium: Reinventing Liberal Arts Education for the 21st Century:
Promising Directions for a New Antioch College

November 15, 2008
Dudley House, Harvard University, Cambridge MA

Morning Session (for Antioch College alumni, staff, faculty, and extended community)

• 9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
• Facilitators –
  • Elissa Tonkin, J.D., Director, EPA New England Dispute Resolution Program, volunteer community mediator/facilitator
  • Douglas Thompson, M.S., Senior Associate, The Keystone Center
  • Niela Miller, MS Ed., Director, People Systems Potential

Facilitated roundtable discussion among Antioch College alumni. The session will include an experiential exercise directed by Niela Miller. It will enable participants to probe the own views and exchange perspectives about:

• what they most valued about their Antioch experience;
• what they believe must be preserved about the “old Antioch”;
• what tensions, if any, exist between their notions of the essence of Antioch and the future viability of Antioch; and
• what a reconstituted Antioch – true to our ideals and positioned to thrive into the future – might look like.

• 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. – lunch on your own in Harvard Square

Afternoon Session (open to all interested):

• 1-1:05 p.m. – Introduction/groundrules
• Moderator – Everett Mendelsohn, PhD, Antioch College 1953, Harvard University Professor of History of Science
• 1:05-1:20 p.m.

• Update on Status of Negotiations to Re-Open Antioch College
• Lee Morgan Antioch College 1966, Antioch College Board of Trustees Pro Tem

• The Work of the Non-Stop Liberal Arts Institute
• Hassan Rahmanian, Director, The Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute

• 1:20 – 2:15 p.m. – Keynote Speaker – Cary Nelson, PhD, University of Rochester, 1970, B.A. Antioch College 1967, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; current President, American Association of University Professors

Current Challenges and Useful Innovations in Liberal Arts Education

• 2:15-3:15 p.m. – First set of two concurrent panels on promising innovations in higher education and previous experience with each approach at Antioch College

• 1. Service Learning and Co-operative Work-Study Programs

• Moderator Janet Chumley, Instructor and Director of Student Teaching, Simmons College
• Panelists
  • Stephen London, Simmons College, director of faculty Oversight for service learning
  • Patricia Linn, Antioch Seattle (videotape statement)
  • Lee Morgan

• 2. Inquiry-based learning for Teaching Science and Environmental Sustainability
  • Co-moderators: Masha Jannine Etkin, M.D., Antioch College Alumna and Roy Crystal, Antioch College 1971, Environmentalist and photographer
  • Panelists:
  • Stanly Bernstein, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Antioch College
  • Judith Greenwald Voet, Ph.D., Antioch College 1963, Swarthmore College
  • Davis Taylor, Economist and Professor, College of the Atlantic

• 3:15-3:30 p.m. break
• 3:30-4:30 p.m. second set of two to concurrent panels on promising innovations in higher education

• 3. Using Computer Technology and the Internet to Improve Residential Learning and Co-operative Work-Study Programs

• Moderator, Stanley Morse, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Antioch College Alumnus
• Panelist: Katharine Galaitsis, Director of Distance Learning Programs, University of Massachusetts Boston

• 4. Peace Studies and Education for Democracy
  • Moderator– Zelda Gamson, Antioch College ’59, New England Resource Center for Higher Education, University of Massachusetts-Boston
  • Panelists:
    • Dale Bryan, Assistant Director of Peace Studies, Tufts University
    • Jean Gregorek, Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies, The Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute

• 4:30-5:15 p.m. – moderated full group discussion of promising innovations (moderator, Everett Mendelsohn). Reporter from the morning session reports out on the discussions and what elements are most valued to keep in a new Antioch College.
• 5:15-5:30 p.m. – wrapup and next steps – moderator describes process for input to curriculum development or college reopening planning
• 5:30-6:45 p.m. networking and social time
• 6:45 p.m. – catered dinner