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Monday, March 10, 2008
Antioch faculty to announce … something
We got a press release this morning that Antioch faculty were going to hold a press conference this afternoon for a major announcement.
Then a short while ago, another annoucement came — the press conference has been postponed due to “technological issues beyond our control.”
The probably belongs over at Stepahnie Gottschilich’s On Campus blog, but I am filling in for her on the Anticoh issue today.
I just spoke with Susan J. Eklund-Leen, who sent out the announcements on behalf of the faculty. She said the press conference will be rescheduled, probably for Tuesday or Wednesday.
She declined to discuss what the faculty would be announcing, but I did ask her if the announcement was going to be JUST the faculty or if included other proponents of saving Antioch, such as the alumni or the Antioch College Continuation Corporation, a group which wanted to take control of the school and keep it running.
She said it was ONLY the faculty that will be making an announcement.
For background on this story, here is an excerpt from one of Stephanie’s stories from last month:
After two days of meetings in Los Angeles, Antioch University trustees said on Friday that they reconfirmed their original June 2007 decision to close Antioch college, this time for one year instead of four years as initially planned. The board said negotiations could not be completed in time with the Antioch College Continuation Corporation, or ACCC, which wanted to take over the school and create its own board of trustees. The closing will affect about 200 students, 41 tenured faculty and 85 staff members. After voting in June to suspend college operations, trustees reversed the decision in November after the college’s alumni board raised $18 million to keep the college open. The group had to meet a series of deadlines on transferring some of the raised money to the school. It gave $2 million to Antioch University immediately. But when some major alumni donors balked and the alumni were unable to meet a second deadline in December, the board took the arrangement off the table and gave the $2 million back, Bloch explained Saturday. Trustees then decided to explore the deal with ACCC, which formed out of the group of hesitant donors and also includes alumni, former trustees and Yellow Springs residents Lee Morgan, owner of Antioch Publishing, and Steve Schwerner, former Antioch dean of students.
UPDATE: Stephanie’s got more recent Antioch news on her blog from late February.
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