Alumni Update, Friday, September 14, 2007

RAISING DOUGH: Our Revival fund has reached a total of $12 million in cash and pledges, an amount equal to the entire endowment of Bennington College. Donors have earmarked the money to be used only for the continuation of Antioch as a residential undergraduate College with a tenured faculty that is moving toward a system of self-governance.

DEVELOPING THE PLAN: In about a week, Dixie Maurer-Clemons will widely circulate for comments and ideas a draft of the Antioch College Revitalization Business Plan. Alumni Board Treasurer Rick Daily, who is coordinating the development of the plan, stresses that “we want as many people as possible to see the draft and give input.” Meanwhile, the Alumni Board is exploring the possibility of hiring a well-respected financial planner to help craft the final version.

SHARING THE PLAN: University Board of Trustees President Art Zucker will travel to Denver in early October to meet with Alumni Board President Nancy Crow and other Alumni Board members and Trustees. They’ll discuss progress being made in the development of the Revitalization Plan. A formal presentation of the completed plan to the entire Board of Trustees is scheduled to take place in Yellow Springs the last weekend in October.

MOVING DEVELOPMENT: The Antioch College Development staff is not only being expanded, it is being given its own home – Weston Hall. Alums Ellen Borgerson and Matt Derr have been on campus these past two weeks working with Risa Grimes and the rest of the development staff.

TEACHING FROM LIFE: In the best tradition of Antioch College, faculty and students are using the current crisis as a learning tool. This weekend, September 14-16, faculty, alumni, staff and students will discuss, teach and learn about the organizing, planning, financing and research techniques that are being employed to address the current situation and to save Antioch.

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