Wikipedia article on Antioch College, snapshot taken 2026-06-29. Covers the college's 1850 founding, Horace Mann's presidency, the historical legacies of Coretta Scott King and Glen Helen, the 2008 closure and 2011 reopening, governance, notable alumni, and recent events as captured in the community-edited Wikipedia record.
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Email from President Jane K. Fernandes to the Antioch College Board of Trustees, dated Saturday June 27, 2026, giving the trustees advance warning about a front-page article in the Antioch Record featuring two students in support of Professor Michael Casselli. Fernandes tells trustees she doesn’t want them to be “surprised or freaked out,” frames the…
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Letter from President Jane K. Fernandes to Antioch students and the campus community, apologizing for the multi-day loss of hot water in North Hall and, more pointedly, for the College’s poor communication during the outage. The letter promises new protocols for communicating during facility emergencies. NOTE: the letter as circulated contains what appears to be…
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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)
Categories: Op-Eds & Analysis, Pedagogical Reckoning ·
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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Your browser does not support HTML5 video. Download the video. By Shannon McCarville · Facebook · Jun 22, 2026 Antiochians: Reunion 2026 is July 16-19. JUST SHOW UP. Here’s why: I shared this last week in the Antioch College Alumni & Community group in the middle of the Board of Trustees meeting. There weren’t enough…
Categories: Calls to Action, Facebook ·
A longtime presence at Antioch College, Michael Casselli told the News that being suspended indefinitely with conditions, in his view, amounts to being fired without the due process historically afforded to, and expected by, tenured faculty — a concern also raised by the American Association of Univ
Categories: Casselli, The Yellow Springs News ·
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.
Categories: Op-Eds & Analysis, Pedagogical Reckoning
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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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…
Categories: Casselli, Pedagogical Reckoning ·
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