Letter from President Jane Fernandes on North Hall Hot Water (June 27, 2026)
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 leftover AI prompt commentary in the final paragraph — a critique-style meta-note reading “Leading with empathy, acknowledging hardship plainly, apologizing for the communication failure, and then explaining the improvements that will make the rest of your message more persuasive.” That sentence is not a message to the community; it is direction to (or from) a writing assistant that was pasted into the outgoing letter. The letter also contains a typo (“Camus” for “Campus”).