On June 29, 2026, the American Association of University Professors wrote to President Jane Fernandes a third time about the case of Michael Casselli, tenured professor of sculpture and installation at Antioch College. The first two AAUP letters were sent on May 14 and June 2.
Categories: Casselli, Pedagogical Reckoning
The stoop of the old student union building on Antioch College’s campus. “Transient Mode Home,” a phrase from a former student’s art project, has become a popular phrase to describe the Antioch College experience.
Categories: Op-Eds & Analysis, Pedagogical Reckoning ·
Three days before commencement, students met with President Fernandes to discuss suspended professor Michael Casselli’s exclusion from campus events — she reversed an initial agreement the next morning, citing “fear and anxiety” on campus.
Categories: News, The Yellow Springs News ·
It has come to my attention that the current president of Antioch College, Jane Fernandes, is up for a two year renewal of her contract, to be voted on at the next board meeting on July 17, 2026. I am writing to express my utmost concern regarding the state of the college after four years with Ms. Fernandez at the helm, and urge you to VOTE NO on this renewal.
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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…
Categories: Facebook, Op-Eds & Analysis
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 ·
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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