The Pattern and the President ↗

The Pattern and the President

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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Antioch College: Key Issues with Citations

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

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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Examining Colleges Facing Heightened Cash Monitoring (Kelchen, July 2024)

Academic paper by Robert Kelchen (Professor and Department Head, University of Tennessee, Knoxville) and Holly Evans, providing the first comprehensive overview of how the U.S. Department of Education’s Heightened Cash Monitoring (HCM) program has been used over time. Analyzes HCM usage trends since the mid-2010s, characteristics of colleges placed on HCM, and closure rates —…

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Dayton Daily News (2015): Antioch spending $81 million to build leaner campus

Sharahn D. Boykin’s February 22, 2015 Dayton Daily News piece reporting that Antioch College was almost halfway through $81 million in campus capital improvements — sustainability, energy efficiency, and a smaller carbon footprint — with about $37.1 million completed by early 2015 (central geothermal plant Phase 1, wellness center, Arts & Science Building renovations Phase…

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The Corporatization of Antioch (by Bob Devine, former Antioch College President 1996-2001, Feb 2011)

Essay analyzing the corporatization of Antioch College — argues that the current administration and Board of Trustees have shifted the institution away from its historic mission of experiential, socially-engaged liberal arts education toward a top-down corporate governance model. ↓ Read the PDF Open in library

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