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ANTIOCH COLLEGE
ANTIOCH COLLEGE ALUMNI ARE: EMMY AWARD WINNERS
LAWYERS ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS GROUNDBREAKING
SCIENTISTS JOURNALISTS BESTSELLING AUTHORS ACTIVISTS
DOCTORS FARMERS DIPLOMATS PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS
DOCUMENTARIANS ARTISTS POETS ENGINEERS CITY PLANNERS
POLITICIANS CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS PARENTS ENGINEERS
ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS PRODUCERS DIRECTORS
ARCHITECTS GREEN DESIGNERS RADICAL THINKERS PUBLIC SER-
VANTS LEADERS MEDAL OF HONOR WINNERS BRIDGE BUILDERS
LIBRARIANS GOVERNORS CONSERVATIONISTS SUSTAINABILITY
EXPERTS EDUCATORS MENTORS TECHNOPHILES SOCIAL WORKERS
BUSINESS OWNERS TEACHERS GRAMMY AWARD WINNERS
ENTREPRENEURS PHILANTHROPISTS CEO’SGENETICISTS COMPUTER
ENGINEERS ARTISTS COMPANY PRESIDENTS PLAYWRIGHTS
AUTHORS FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS EDUCATORS AMBASSADORS
RESEARCH SCIENTISTS POETS PALEONTOLOGISTS COMPOSERS
CONDUCTORS NOBEL LAUREATES PHOTOGRAPHERS REPORTERS
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS EDITORS GUITARISTS ACTORS
DIRECTORS PRODUCERS SCREENWRITERS MACARTHUR FELLOWS
PATENT-HOLDERS INVENTORS CONSULTANTS BOARD CHAIRS
BANKERS STOCK BROKERS JUDGES TONY AWARD WINNERS
FILMMAKERS BED AND BREAKFAST OWNERS PASTORS POET
LAUREATE OF THE UNITED ST ATES HONOREES MINISTERS
SCHOLARS PSYCHOLOGISTS PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF
FREEDOM WINNERS MEDIATORS SURGEONS PSYCHIATRISTS
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“Be ashamed to die until you have won some
victory for humanity”
-Horace Mann, first president of Antioch College
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The mission of Antioch College is to provide a rigorous liberal arts
education to students from around the world based on the belief that
scholarship and life experience are strengthened when linked and that
authentic social and community engagement is vital for those who
strive to win victories for humanity.
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Antioch College is a community dedicated to the search for truth, the
development of individual potential, and the pursuit of social justice. In
order to fulfill our objectives, freedom must be matched by responsibility.
As a member of the Antioch College community, I affirm that I will be
honest and respectful in all my relationships, and I will advance these
standards of behavior in others.
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A healthy democratic society requires institutions that act as catalysts for change and
laboratories for invention. This is a role that Antioch College has played throughout
its history; the effort to restore it is among the most significant and compelling
opportunities in higher education today.
Antioch College has been a pioneering and values-driven secular institution since it was
founded in 1852. The College was among the first nonsectarian institutions in the United
States. It was the first co-educational college in the nation to offer the same educational
opportunities to both men and women and it was the first to appoint a woman to its
faculty and to its Board of Trustees. It was also among the first to offer African-Americans
equal educational opportunities. Throughout the generations, Antioch College faculty,
students, staff, and alumni have committed themselves to important causes. Consistent
with its curriculum of study and work, Antioch College has always given equal weight to
understanding theory, to engaging in practice and to taking action.
In the 20th century, Antioch College redefined liberal arts education by initiating an
entrepreneurial and experiential curriculum through the development of its hallmark
cooperative work program. Many of the now-common elements of today’s liberal arts
education – self-designed majors, study abroad, interdisciplinary study, and portfolio
evaluation – had an early start at Antioch College. The College was also among the first to
make a commitment to community governance and the authentic participation of students in
institutional decision-making.
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An Antioch College education has always encouraged independent
thinking and invention. As a result, Antioch College alumni have made
contributions on a par with much larger institutions with significantly
greater resources. Its many accomplished alumni include leaders in nearly
every academic field, two Nobel Prize recipients and seven MacArthur
Foundation Fellows — few colleges or universities have produced more
recipients of this award. According to a highly regarded study, Antioch
College was ranked number 19 out of a comprehensive list of almost
1000 colleges and universities in absolute number of doctoral degrees
earned by its graduates. Similarly, Antioch College was among the top
colleges for Fulbright Award recipients.
Once again, Antioch College and its alumni must take action. This time we
do so not only on behalf of the College itself, but in service to the needs of
higher education and society. The opportunity exists to develop a new vision
worthy of Antioch College’s history and contribution.
The academic curriculum will emphasize a rigorous and interdisciplinary
approach to the liberal arts, offering a small number of well-resourced
academic disciplines facilitated by a seminar model of teaching and
learning. With the early support and leadership of the faculty, the Board
will encourage broad participation in a long-range planning effort that will
capture in detail the structure to support the new concept of an Antioch
College education. In this planning effort, the board will encourage curricula
programming that engenders an understanding of the historical context and
the intellectual roots of current issues while emphasizing contemporary issues
of local, national and global importance such as economic development,
energy and food production, and innovative alternatives to time-work
approaches to academic and practical matters.
The College will remain the only liberal arts institution in the nation to
require a comprehensive off-campus co-operative work program of all its
students. Co-operative education links theory and practice and supports the
development of independence and accountability. Learning to live and work
productively in the community and to participate in governance will remain
among the most important skills students will acquire at Antioch College.
The opportunity to engage in the creation of a new approach to education
will continue to attract faculty committed to invention. This Antioch College
is committed to a tenure system that will ensure the academic freedom
necessary to support creative and open thinking in a context of institutional
accountability. Further, the College will seek to provide competitive faculty
compensation and a significant voice in guiding and sustaining the mission of
the College.
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The opportunity for reinvention is compelling because of the College’s legacy and because
its educational vision is uniquely suited to developing citizens with the skills, habits of mind
and values necessary today. Among these skills we include: creativity, capacity to innovate,
self-discipline, ability to learn quickly through experience, and working well independently
as well as a member of a group. In addition, our students will adopt a global perspective,
will be concerned about clarifying their values, and will develop the flexibility to adapt to
frequent change. The earliest leaders of the College were ahead of their time in
understanding that the true purpose of education was to develop the intellectual, social
and entrepreneurial capacities that prepare young people to be life-long learners with a
commitment to society-at-large.
The College’s educational program will continue to be built around the three guiding
principles that have been the hallmark of an Antioch College education – commitment to
excellence in scholarship, to full-time periods in a co-operative work program that alternates
with full-time study and supports the link between theory and practice, to active engagement
in the community and to social justice. The new program will be further strengthened by
new initiatives in its collegiate calendar, in employing communication technologies, and in
engaging with global diversity that will embody a new and vibrant approach to liberal arts
education in the United States.
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In a time when the cost of education is of critical and increasing importance,
this new calendar also means that families will be paying roughly 25%
less in college costs than at comparable liberal arts institutions, thereby
increasing access to a college education and supporting the College in
recruiting a more economically and racially diverse student body.
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Increasing access through more affordable tuition is a top priority. Therefore
in addition to the new calendar, the College will improve its affordability and
attractiveness by restructuring its tuition model to match current economic
circumstances, projecting a dramatic reduction in tuition, one that will be well
below rates at peer colleges. It is assumed that the number of families who
can afford a collegiate education that costs above $50,000 has not only been
greatly reduced, but will continue to decline in the next five years as will easy
access to credit markets.
At Antioch College, tuition, room and board will be tied to the actual cost of
providing these services to students. The College will no longer dramatically
“discount” by as much as 50% of gross tuition, but will replace “discounting”
with philanthropically supported need-based financial aid at 25% of gross
tuition.
This tuition model will increase access and the perception of access to the
College by a broader and more diverse range of students. The reduction in
discount rate will radically shift the structure of tuition at Antioch College
ahead of similar decisions that other liberal arts colleges are likely to make over
a longer period of time thus making the College more competitive early in its
redevelopment.
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Antioch College is the first college in the United States to have the opportunity
to develop a business model and program around the current dramatic global
economic, environmental and social situation. The initiatives listed here are
intended to strengthen the role of the College in addressing the pressing needs
facing the world by educating a diverse student body motivated and prepared
to invent new solutions.
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Antioch College will develop intensive 120-credit, 39-month, fully accredited
undergraduate degrees designed to allow students to complete a Bachelor of
Arts or Bachelor of Science degree in three calendar years. The calendar
reorganization will allow students to complete their degrees efficiently and to
connect their studies to preparation for the next phase of personal, professional
and intellectual development. To accomplish this objective, Antioch College
will rely on rigorous year-round study, including summer, and an integration
of off-campus co-op periods with study projects and academic programming
facilitated by innovative use of communication technology.
The length of the program of study is also consistent with the time allotted for
earning an undergraduate credential in the majority of the world’s
universities. Importantly, the calendar is contracted and reorganized, but does
not reduce “instructional” time. Each student’s academic program will also
continue to alternate between on-campus academic seminars and
off-campus group and independent work placements.
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All members of the community are important to sustaining the mission and
values of Antioch College. Rebuilding and perpetuating Antioch College
is an exciting programmatic and community-building opportunity that
will be integrated into the curriculum and into the business plan of
the College.
The future of the College is tied to the effectiveness of the community in
governing day-to-day affairs and in stewarding resources wisely. All
students will participate in some form of weekly labor in support of their
community without consideration of their need for financial support for
the cost of their education. Similarly, it is anticipated that boar d
members, alumni, faculty and staf f will volunteer for community-based
projects each year.
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Antioch College will be among the first private colleges to fully embrace the
power and efficiency of sophisticated web-based communication technology
in providing a rigorous liberal arts education. This technology will strengthen
our program of study by allowing students to continue academic study and
also remain engaged in campus life while on work trimesters and to take full
advantage of offerings at other educational institutions across the globe.
We will use technology to further the reach and reputation of the College by
providing new ways to share the work of its distinguished faculty, students and
alumni. By employing this kind of technology we will encourage the expan-
sion of our current concept of what it means to be an “Antiochian”
by extending the reach of the College to communicate and participate in
dialog with alumni and friends. Finally, the extensive and embedded use of
technology in all aspects of the program will build the capacity of all students
to be fully conversant with the new technologies upon graduation.
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The Board understands that enrolling a diverse student body is essential to
the long-range survival of the College and indeed to the sur vival of all
national liberal arts colleges. The composition of the American popula-
tion and continued globalization of university enr ollments require that
Antioch College address issues of race, ethnicity, identity, and community
development.
It is assumed, if the College is to thrive, that in the future the majority of
Antioch College students, faculty and staff may be citizens and residents of the
United States who are Latino, Asian and African-American. In addition, to
address the need to become a truly global liberal arts college, rather than an
American liberal arts college that simply enrolls international students,
represents an opportunity to expand the reach of the College’s values and
reputation.
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The goal of the Board is to re-establish Antioch College as a leader among liberal arts
colleges by reinventing the way in which it meets and supports its historic mission and
to do so in a thoughtful and timely manner.
Following are a few of the major implementation steps that the Board will take
to meet this objective:
• Build a Board of Trustees with the creativity and capacity to support a plan
committed to furthering the historic mission of Antioch College
• Implement a sophisticated communication plan to keep all Antioch College
constituencies regularly informed about developments.
• Launch a comprehensive, long-term, sustained fundraising program.
• Seek the support, guidance, and expertise of both alumni and non-alumni with an
interest in the College and the values it r epresents.
• Develop a preliminary and innovative business plan that will sustain the long-ter m
capacity of the College to meet its stated mission.
• Appoint a talented and visionar y President and a core group of faculty and staff
who are passionate about the mission of the College and the opportunities present-
ed by reinvention.
• Develop a re-envisioned plan and approach to college admission suitable to the
vision and mission of Antioch College, one that will fully utilize volunteer ef fort and
communication technology.
• Achieve approval to offer degrees from the Ohio Board of Regents and full
accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central
Accrediting Association.
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“Nothing ever built arose to touch the
skies unless someone dreamed that it
should, someone believed that it could,
and someone willed that it must.”
Charles F . Kettering
POLITICIANS PHYSICISTS OBIE AWARD WINNERS
EPIDEMIOLOGISTS DEANS MENTORS BESSIE AWARD WINNERS
ADVISERS METEOROLOGISTS ENDOCRINOLOGISTS GUGGENHEIM
FELLOWS COLLEGE PRESIDENTS EMMY AWARD WINNERS
LAWYERS ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS GROUNDBREAKING
SCIENTISTS JOURNALISTS BESTSELLING AUTHORS ACTIVISTS
DOCTORS FARMERS DIPLOMATS PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS
DOCUMENTARIANS ARTISTS POETS ENGINEERS CITY PLANNERS
POLITICIANS CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS PARENTS ENGINEERS
ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS PRODUCERS DIRECTORS
ARCHITECTS GREEN DESIGNERS RADICAL THINKERS PUBLIC SER-
VANTS LEADERS MEDAL OF HONOR WINNERS BRIDGE BUILDERS
LIBRARIANS GOVERNORS CONSERVATIONISTS SUSTAINABILITY
EXPERTS EDUCATORS MENTORS TECHNOPHILES SOCIAL WORKERS
BUSINESS OWNERS TEACHERS GRAMMY AWARD WINNERS
ENTREPRENEURS PHILANTHROPISTS CEO’SGENETICISTS COMPUTER
ENGINEERS ARTISTS COMPANY PRESIDENTS PLAYWRIGHTS
AUTHORS FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS EDUCATORS AMBASSADORS
RESEARCH SCIENTISTS POETS PALEONTOLOGISTS COMPOSERS
CONDUCTORS NOBEL LAUREATES PHOTOGRAPHERS REPORTERS
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS EDITORS GUITARISTS ACTORS
DIRECTORS PRODUCERS SCREENWRITERS MACARTHUR FELLOWS
PATENT-HOLDERS INVENTORS CONSULTANTS BOARD CHAIRS
BANKERS STOCK BROKERS JUDGES TONY AWARD WINNERS
FILMMAKERS BED AND BREAKF AST OWNERS PASTORS POET
OUR COLLEGE TRUSTEES PRO TEMPORE (TO DATE)
Nancy Crow ’70
Pavel E. Curtis ’81
Leo ’39 and Kay Drey (Honorary)
Allyn Hansson Feinberg ’70
Atis Folkmanis ’62
Terry O. Herndon ’57 (Secretary)
Frances Degen Horowitz ’54 (Vice Chair)
Joyce Idema ’57
Jay W. Lorsch ’55
Lee Morgan ’66 (Chair)
Rozell W. “Prexy” Nesbitt ’67
Eleanor Holmes Norton ’60 (Honorary)
Edward H. Richard ’59 (Treasurer)
Barbara Winslow ’68
Biographies available online at www.antiochians.org
This text is an abridged version of the Concept Paper & Business Plan appr oved by the Board Pro Tempore in November 2008. Both documents
were created with the intent to serve as an element of the process and plans to create an independent Antioch College. As such, they are a
simple blueprint and only partially represent the full aspirations and hopes of the board for the future of Antioch College.
Photos and artwork courtesy of Antiochiana, Dennie Eagleson ’71, John Johnston ’75, and the Library of Congress produced by Matthew Brady Studio.
