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There will be a community meeting at reunion, planned for Friday, June 18 at 7:30 p.m. Tentative location is the steps of Antioch Hall, location subject to change.

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

Congratulations to Mark Reynolds ‘80 on his election to the Alumni Board. When he’s seated next year Mark will join fellow Chicagoans Emily Kirby ‘52 and chapter organizer Jim Hobart ‘58.

Also elected were:

Laurence “Larry” Glasco
Chad Johnston
Tanya Mink
Karen Mulhauser
Allen Spalt
Paula Treichler
Don Wallace (re-elected)

Reunion and Work Project

Campus work project starts next Monday and reunion starts Friday. Are you going? Need a ride? Have space in your car? Post it here. Help someone out and save some gas.

See video:
Part One
Part Two

Speakers: Matthew Derr, Lee Morgan, Beverly Rodgers, Aimee Maruyama, Julian Sharp

using arts & sciences
testing academic plan with high school students

Beverly:
a week to ten days in between each term
no summers off
flipped educational model upside down
begin forming relationships with faculty in first year 1:5 teacher ratio

lee: target to have tuition equal or below state school out of state, do it in 3 years.
we just lost a work quarter
seven academic quarters, five coops

the question is can a human being develop properly in 3 years. I don’t have a good answer.

sandy macnab: do you have entering class in back pocket?

lee: we can just about offer a free ride to the first 25 students
recruitment will be more about finding the proper diversity mix

beverly: want alumni chapters to help interview prospective students
in last year school closing had 62 students

susan greene: similar calendar took me five years.

three years may only attract more sophisticated students than our target diversity

kathy huff: how’s annual fund going?
aimee: it’s 2.8 million. we’re just over half way
kathy huff: wouldn’t it be wise to keep the endowment?

11.4% currently giving (aimee)

lee: since announced closure 16 million raised
2 million in the bank
4-5 million in outstanding pledges

lee: operating budget 400k/month $5 million/year
2 million to rehab gym

south gym will accommodate 250 seat black box theater shared facility with village

beverly level out at 600 students half on campus half remote

tour of building at antiochcollege.org

howard cort: is there enough flexibility in the program?

beverly: we’re presenting program for three years it may take four

derr: first class planned to come in at 100% discount
reduced discount rate to about 30%
hover around 20% after received accreditation
26,000 tuition and 10,000 in fees first year

beverly: not negating governance but having a director of community

jim hobart: what if this design doesn’t work?
I never would have made it through this program
where’s the fun?

derr: it works according to credits and math.
we have to invest in student life, gym, glen to have rich experience
we have to look at this empirically at how it plays to 17 year olds

we have to decide what our admission criteria are. works better when students have had work experience

first entering class 25 second 50 third 75

involve community mangers in year long curriculum in community
give new community agency of its own
have to plan for governance on campus or they’ll rebel against it

roger: where would you recruit transfer students?

derr: public university students who want liberal arts education but don’t have access
start hosting prospective students this fall

lee: if this doesn’t work we’re going to go down in a blaze of glory. we’re not going to do something half-ass

prexy: our legacy is risk taking. when I say antioch lives people say “are you serious? you came back again?” this is our legacy.

susan: I take you at your word student body won’t be all white.
the first year is where we must recruit the class that looks different. must have working class students.

prexy: we’ve begun going places antioch never went to (in terms of diverse recruitment).
lee: we’re devoting a day to this subject at our may board meeting

beverly: I’m chair of morgan fellows

julian: eight OSU students came on spring break to do work
4/24-25 big volunteer weekend on campus

derr: we need you to talk to disconnected and angry alumni and turn them around

note: the fundamental academic subjects- it’s unclear to some alumni how they fit in.

derr: board meeting will be in yellow springs may 24-25. Details to come.