[lbo-talk] Antioch College Closing!

Jesse Lemisch utopia1 at attglobal.net
Wed Jun 13 11:48:30 PDT 2007


Yes, in answer to my earlier question, they are indeed firing faculty. This is reported today on insidehighered.com, too long to post here.

This has the flavor of corporate bankruptcies to escape labor commitments -- tho I guess there's more to it than that.

Meantime, I don't think the collapse of Antioch constitutes a nullification of the famous Antioch Sexual Offense Prevention Policy, though some may disagree.

Jesse Lemisch

----- Original Message ----- From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <critical.montages at gmail.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 1:08 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Antioch College Closing!


> On 6/13/07, Jesse Lemisch <utopia1 at attglobal.net> wrote:
> > Very sad. This would seem to be, among other things, a device to permit
them
> > to fire faculty. Is that what they are doing?
>
> I'm afraid that in part is the case. While there's no question that
> enrollment really went down, some members of the Board and the
> Chancellor of Antioch College, from what I have heard, have a history
> of opposing tenure and looking only at the bottom line. So, the idea
> may be to close down the liberal arts college with tenured professors
> for good (despite the possibility of re-opening mentioned in the press
> release) and to focus on adult and vocational education, the
> money-making part of the enterprise, offering faculty contracts with
> no tenure. But I have not heard all the facts of the case, so I'll
> post again if I learn more about the problem.
> --
> Yoshie
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