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

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

by | Jul 24, 2026 | Op-Eds & Analysis, Pedagogical Reckoning

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.

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The Numbers Are In (and they’re not looking good): Antioch College’s FY25 Form 990 ↗

The Numbers Are In (and they’re not looking good): Antioch College’s FY25 Form 990

by | Jul 15, 2026 | Medium, Op-Eds & Analysis

A breakdown of Antioch College’s FY25 Form 990: an operating deficit exceeding $3.2 million, gross tuition down roughly 16% year-over-year, a composite financial health score of 0.6 (well below the 1.5 passing threshold), a third consecutive going-concern finding from auditors, expendable net assets down nearly $2.35 million to $5.6 million, cash reserves under $1 million, and a $706,203 bad-debt writeoff on unpaid donor pledges.

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An open letter from an Antioch alumna to the Board of Trustees ↗

An open letter from an Antioch alumna to the Board of Trustees

by | Jul 1, 2026 | Op-Eds & Analysis, Pedagogical Reckoning

An open letter from an Antioch alumna to the Board of Trustees

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.

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The Pattern and the President ↗

The Pattern and the President

by | Jun 11, 2026 | Op-Eds & Analysis, Pedagogical Reckoning

The Pattern and the President

The goal of this article is to look closely at Dr. Jane Fernandes’s record across multiple institutions and ask whether she is the right person to lead a college like Antioch, with all its particularities and its current dire financial state. To be fair, Fernandes took a job offered to her, after a search firm that Antioch’s own board and hiring committee selected recruited her. Very few people with higher-education executive experience would have taken it: turning around a financially distresse…

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The AAUP has written to Antioch’s President. Twice. ↗

The AAUP has written to Antioch’s President. Twice.

by | Jun 5, 2026 | Casselli, Pedagogical Reckoning

The AAUP has written to Antioch’s President. Twice.

In February 2026, Antioch College terminated the appointment of tenured professor michael casselli without convening the Faculty Promotion and Review Committee or the Board of Trustees, the bodies its own Faculty Personnel Handbook designates for termination for cause. The Board rescinded the termination in March and ordered an FPRC review. The review did not materialize. The American Association of University Professors has since written twice to President Jane Fernandes urging the hearing the…

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Antioch College: Key Issues with Citations

by | Jun 1, 2026 | Op-Eds & Analysis, Pedagogical Reckoning

Antioch enrolled 115 degree-seeking students in 2025–26, down from 121 the prior year. (Yellow Springs News, September 2025) The six-year graduation rate is 26 percent. (College Scorecard / U.S. Dept. of Education) U.S. News ranking has fallen from #100 among national liberal arts colleges (fall 2023) to #183–201 (2026 edition). (Wikipedia, Antioch College) The college recently withdrew from the Great Lakes Colleges Association — a consortium it helped found (GLCA)

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The Re-Unmaking of a College: The Politics & Economics of the SLAC Crisis

by | May 16, 2026 | Op-Eds & Analysis, Pedagogical Reckoning

On April 14, 2026, Hampshire College’s board of trusteesvoted to close the college at the end of the fall 2026 semester. The announcement was not (or at least, should not have been) a surprise. In March 2026 its accreditor, the New England Commission of Higher Education,placed Hampshire on notice and warned it could withdraw accreditation over the college’s enrollment and finances. The Massachusetts Department of Higher Educationcould not confirm Hampshire held sufficient resources to operate th…

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