by Horace Mann
Financially Strapped Antioch College will Lose its President at Year-end.
4:02 pm in news by Horace Mann
Business First of Columbus – 10:16 AM EDT Friday, July 27, 2007
Financially strapped Antioch College will lose its president at year-end.
Steven Lawry told the liberal arts school’s chancellor Thursday that he will leave the Yellow Springs college given the board of trustees’ decision to suspend Antioch’s operations next July.
Chancellor Toni Murdock asked Andrzej Bloch, dean of faculty, to take over as interim president in January.
Lawry arrived at Antioch in 2006 from the Ford Foundation, where he was director of its Office of Management Services.
“I look forward to contributing in other ways to the advancement of the kinds of values Antioch has traditionally taught and honored–engaged citizenship, free and open intellectual inquiry, and respect for human dignity,” Lawry said in a release on his resignation.
Antioch College in June said it would close next July in hopes of shoring up its finances so it could reopen in 2012. Trustees said the college has struggled amid falling enrollment and revenue, yet faculty and alumni
claimed other factors–including a curriculum overhaul and the college’s governance structure–contributed to the downfall.
Antioch, which was founded in 1852, was noted in education circles for its nontraditional curriculum and its liberal stands. It boasts famous alumni, including Coretta Scott King, actor John Lithgow and Rod Serling, creator of the “Twilight Zone.”
