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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