Take Antioch Back!

Take Antioch Back! Our College is in trouble. Again. Let's decide together what happens next.

Learn more: saveantioch.orgDiscord: discord.gg/f7zNPDxBEmail group: groups.google.com/g/antioch-rebuilding Come to Reunion July 16–19! This is our chance for a critical mass to look forward and change the trajectory of Antioch’s legacy.

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Antioch by the Numbers #6 – Borrowing from the Piggy Bank (and not paying it back)

Jon Baker posted the following to the Antioch College Alumni & Community Facebook group. In their 2025 report, the College’s financial auditors questioned Antioch’s “ability to continue as a going concern” because of how the College was paying for operating expenses. Most of these problems were discussed in “Antioch by the Numbers #5.” The College’s…

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Antioch by the Numbers #4 – Antioch Must be Re-accredited

Jon Baker posted the following to the Antioch College Alumni & Community Facebook group. Antioch is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), a regional agency that offers evaluation and accreditation to colleges and universities. In late November, 2024 the HLC alerted Antioch College that the school had been assigned a “financial distress designation.” The…

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Antioch by the Numbers #3 – Making affordable education unaffordable

Jon Baker posted the following to the Antioch College Alumni & Community Facebook group. Antioch has the commendable goal of making higher education affordable, allowing those who can’t pay for an Ivy League education to get a college degree. No one can fault the College for this endeavor. However, how they handle financial aid is…

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Antioch by the Numbers #2 – Tumbling Down the Ratings Chart

Jon Baker posted the following to the Antioch College Alumni & Community Facebook group. I’m crunching numbers on student financial aid. While that gets done, here’s an interesting number on Antioch: Remember in 2023 when the College proudly announced that it was #100 on the prestigious U.S. News & World Report’s Top National Liberal Arts…

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SEE Something? Say Something: Antioch College’s Social Enterprise and Enrollment Plan ↗

SEE Something? Say Something: Antioch College’s Social Enterprise and Enrollment Plan

An investigation into Antioch College’s 2023 Social Enterprise and Enrollment Plan (SEE Plan) — the eighty-plus-page strategy the Board unanimously endorsed to sell off campus properties as a financial “bridge” and convert seven facilities into revenue-generating “learning hubs.” Its three-year planning window closed in June 2026 having failed on virtually every projected metric, with no successor plan and no public accounting from the administration of what happened.

Categories: Op-Eds & Analysis, Pedagogical Reckoning

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Antioch by the Numbers

Jon Baker posted the following to the Antioch College Alumni & Community Facebook group. This page has seen extensive discussion on the status of Antioch College, as well as (in my opinion) well deserved criticism of its president, Jane Fernandes. Some folks have complained about the lack of hard facts about the College’s status. With…

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Yes, It’s Jane – EXAMPLE #8 – “They’re eating the pets! Alumni are eating the dogs!”

Jon Baker posted the following to the Antioch College Alumni & Community Facebook group. No, of course this is no more true than when Trump accused our Haitian neighbors in Springfield of doing this. But you have to wonder, given the lies the administration is spreading about alums, just how far off is it? The…

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