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      • A shortage of money is prompting Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, to close next year. The Board of Directors hopes to reopen four years later, but many fear it will not happen.
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  2. Jun 22, 2007 · Antioch College, located in Yellow Springs, Ohio, has long been saddled with dwindling enrollment and expensive campus maintenance, and could lean on only a small endowment of $36.2-million.

  3. In 2008, the university closed the college, but it reopened under new management in 2011 after a group of alumni formed the Antioch College Continuation Corporation and bought from the university both the physical campus and the right to use the name "Antioch College."

  4. Sep 26, 2017 · Bates graduated from Antioch College in 1983 and is currently the editor of the "New Republic." Eric Bates, an Antioch alumnus and the editor of New Republic, on the campus for a reunion with his ...

    • I. Introduction
    • II. The Institution’S Governance
    • III. Faculty Participation in Antioch College Governance: Background
    • IV. Excluding The College Faculty from Budgetary Decisions
    • V. Issues of Concern
    • VI. Conclusions
    • Final Observations
    • Endnotes

    Antioch College, an independent liberal arts institution located in Yellow Springs, Ohio, was founded in 1852 with a resolution passed by the general convention of the Christian Church.1In 1853, the college admitted its first class of six students, four men and two women, with an inaugural faculty of six, one of whom was the first female college pr...

    Until February 2009, Antioch University was governed by a single twenty-member board of trustees. That board has since been replaced by a university governance structure that includes previous trustees as a university-wide board of governors and new boards of trustees for each individual campus to oversee local campus operations. The board of gover...

    Determining the extent of faculty participation in the governance of Antioch College is fundamental to an assessment of key issues in this case. Questions arose as to the precise nature and extent of the faculty’s knowledge of both the financial situation of the college and the board’s intention to declare financial exigency and to suspend college ...

    According to Robert Devine, Antioch College’s interim president from 1996 to 1998, and president from 1998 to 2001, the vice chancellor for finance and the ULC became more vocal during his time in office in their criticism of the college’s budget, specifically the revenue obtained from the other units and the college’s autonomy in developing its ow...

    Summarized here are what appear to the investigating committee to be the central issues raised by the actions taken concerning Antioch College and its faculty by the administration and the board of Antioch University.

    The Statement on Government of Colleges and Universities, section 2b, paragraph 2, states, “When an educational goal has been established, it becomes the responsibility primarily of the faculty to determine the appropriate curriculum and procedures of student instruction.” The Antioch University administration usurped the faculty’s responsibility f...

    Antioch College was once a very special place with a unique mission and a clear niche among liberal arts colleges. Small residential liberal arts colleges can be costly to run and, by their nature, filled with faculty members and students who question decisions and who wish to take an active part in decision-making processes. These fundamentals for...

    1. The text of this report was written in the first instance by the members of the investigating committee. In accordance with Association practice, the text was then edited by the Association’s staff, and, as revised, with the concurrence of the investigating committee, was submitted to the Committee on College and University Governance. With that...

  5. Mar 18, 2008 · Beset by faltering finances and declining enrollment, Antioch College will close its Ohio school in June. But officials at its Seattle campus are bullish about the future.

  6. Jun 24, 2007 · Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, appears to be preparing to close its doors after 150 years. Appears is the active verb because Antiochians are schooled to be fighters, social...

  7. Sep 16, 2011 · Four times — in 1863, 1881, 1919 and 2008 — it has had to close. Next month, it will reopen again. The college has been sending recruiters to college fairs nationwide for a year now,...

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