Jon Baker posted the following to the Antioch College Alumni & Community Facebook group. Give Jane a Little More Time and It Could Happen Under President Jane Fernandez’s leadership Antioch is on verge of disaster. The most recent audit of the College (year ending June 20, 2025) and other financial documents show this: Not a…
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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)
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One-page comparison of Goddard College (closed May 2024), Hampshire College (closing December 2026), and Antioch College — status, current enrollment vs peak, endowment, cash-on-hand, and DOE composite financial responsibility scores. Sources include DOE composite score files (AY18-19 through AY22-23), Brady Ware & Schoenfeld audits FY2023–FY2025, HLC Public Disclosure Notices, and reporting from Higher Ed Dive…
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Three Institutions & Twenty Years of the Same Failures. A side-by-side look at Jane Fernandes’ leadership at Gallaudet University (2000–2006), Guilford College (2014–2020), and Antioch College (2021–present) — and the recurring pattern across all three.
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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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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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