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Three small liberal arts colleges, side by side. Goddard closed in May 2024. Hampshire closes in December 2026. Antioch is open and enrolling for fall — with 115 students (down 96% from 1973), $17.1M borrowed from endowment principal, $1.75M cash on hand (roughly 5–6 weeks of payroll), and a failing federal composite score of 0.6 two years running. The passing threshold is 1.5.
Sources: DOE composite score files (AY18–19 through AY22–23); Antioch audited financial statements FY2023–FY2025 (Brady Ware & Schoenfeld); DOE HCM list September 2024; HLC Public Disclosure Notices; Higher Ed Dive; Chronicle of Higher Education; Yellow Springs News. This chart is also available in the Document Library.
Students at Antioch College in Yellow Springs are confused and frustrated after recent issues in their dorms left them without hot water and hot food. A school spokesperson said a boiler part broke in June, causing the issues for weeks — the cafeteria could serve only cold food, and North Hall residents were told to shower in other buildings. The students are making their disappointment known. The segment (2:29) is embedded above via WDTN’s player.
On June 29, 2026, the American Association of University Professors wrote to President Jane Fernandes a third time about the case of Michael Casselli, tenured professor of sculpture and installation at Antioch College. The first two AAUP letters were sent on May 14 and June 2.
The stoop of the old student union building on Antioch College’s campus. “Transient Mode Home,” a phrase from a former student’s art project, has become a popular phrase to describe the Antioch College experience.
It has come to my attention that the current president of Antioch College, Jane Fernandes, is up for a two year renewal of her contract, to be voted on at the next board meeting on July 17, 2026. I am writing to express my utmost concern regarding the state of the college after four years with Ms. Fernandez at the helm, and urge you to VOTE NO on this renewal.
Wikipedia article on Antioch College, snapshot taken 2026-06-29. Covers the college's 1850 founding, Horace Mann's presidency, the historical legacies of Coretta Scott King and Glen Helen, the 2008 closure and 2011 reopening, governance, notable alumni, and recent events as captured in the community-edited Wikipedia record.
Email from President Jane K. Fernandes to the Antioch College Board of Trustees, dated Saturday June 27, 2026, giving the trustees advance warning about a front-page article in the Antioch Record featuring two students in support of Professor Michael Casselli. Fernandes tells trustees she doesn’t want them to be “surprised or freaked out,” frames the Casselli case as a personnel matter about which she cannot share details, and invokes “the safety of campus and all community members” as her framework for balancing student input. The email is notable as evidence of how the administration coordinates messaging with the board around ongoing faculty-personnel and academic-freedom controversies at the college.
Letter from President Jane K. Fernandes to Antioch students and the campus community, apologizing for the multi-day loss of hot water in North Hall and, more pointedly, for the College’s poor communication during the outage. The letter promises new protocols for communicating during facility emergencies. NOTE: the letter as circulated contains what appears to be leftover AI prompt commentary in the final paragraph — a critique-style meta-note reading “Leading with empathy, acknowledging hardship plainly, apologizing for the communication failure, and then explaining the improvements that will make the rest of your message more persuasive.” That sentence is not a message to the community; it is direction to (or from) a writing assistant that was pasted into the outgoing letter. The letter also contains a typo (“Camus” for “Campus”).
Goddard: ~220 students — down 88% from ~1,900 (early 1970s)
Hampshire: ~747 students — down 94% from ~1,200 (mid-1990s peak)
Antioch: ~115 students — down 96% from ~2,700 (1973); down 57% from post-reopening high of 266 (2015)