A joint email from President Jane Fernandes and Board Chair Shelby Chestnut, sent early January 2025 under the subject “Preserving Our Mission,” responding directly to the HLC’s November 2024 Financial Distress designation. The letter attributes the designation to FY2022–2023 audit findings that also triggered heightened cash monitoring (HCM1) with the Department of Education, frames the…
Email from Antioch College President Jane Fernandes to the campus community, sent November 7, 2024 — the morning after the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Fernandes writes that “our democracy is in crisis,” invokes Antioch’s history founding the Coretta Scott King Center and its tradition of intellectual freedom, and calls for the community to “listen closely,…
An Antioch College fundraising brochure for President Jane Fernandes’ “President’s Initiative” — a campaign to “rapidly raise $5M by June 30, 2023” to fund a transition to a new business model, activate “Learning Hubs,” and support ongoing equity and access initiatives. Undated, but confirmed via a companion internal strategy memo to have launched January 2023.…
Email from President Tom Manley to the Antioch College community, October 30, 2020, announcing he would step down as president effective December 1, 2020 — earlier than his previously announced end-of-2021 retirement — due to a recurrence of prostate cancer requiring six months or more of treatment. Leadership passed to an interim triumvirate of three…
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