By Diane Chiddister for Yellow Springs News, January 17, 2008
Efforts toward exploring the feasibility of separating Antioch College from Antioch University are moving ahead this month, with directors of the recently-formed Antioch College Continuation Corporation, or AC3, expressing cautious optimism that they will achieve their goal.
by Kevin J. Kelley for Seven Days, Wednesday, November 28, 2007
VERMONT — Throughout its 150-year existence, Ohio’s Antioch College has produced an eclectic group of graduates. The college’s best-known alum is Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Antioch is also the alma mater of “Twilight Zone” creator Rod Serling. Then there are lesser-known names, such as Robert Manry, who sailed a 13-foot sailboat across the Atlantic Ocean.
by Lauren Heaton, Yellow Springs News, October 18, 2007
Last week more than half of the 350 students, faculty and staff members on the Antioch College campus passed a community referendum that included a vote of no confidence for Antioch University Chancellor Toni Murdock and an endorsement of establishing a self-governing college independent of the university.
by Bob Fitrakis Columbus Free Press, October 10, 2007
As the Free Press goes to press, the Antioch College Alumni Association has raised $12 million in donations and pledges in an effort to keep the socially-conscious college from closing next year.
Mysteries still surround Antioch’s rapid and poorly explained closing. The Board has bizarrely turned to the “marketing, branding and public relations firm” of Simpson Scarborough to peddle the closing decision.
by Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, Thursday, September 6, 2007.
The faculty of Antioch College has this week voted no confidence in Toni Murdock, chancellor of the university, following her dismissal of the college’s president and reorganization of the college’s fund raising operations — changes that the faculty said should have involved consultation with the faculty and did not.
by Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed. Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Last week’s announcement that Antioch University’s board was open to considering a plan to avoid suspending the operations of Antioch College brought uncharacteristic peace to a campus where many students, professors and alumni distrust the central university administration and board. The distrust is back.
As of today, the Alumni Association has raised nearly $18 million in gifts and pledges from hundreds of donors eager to secure the future of Antioch College.
The elected Antioch College Alumni Association Board of Directors continue to negotiate with the University Board of Trustees to establish an autonomous Board of Trustees for Antioch College, and to protection of assets of Antioch College for sole use of Antioch College.