In Support of Engaging Tenured Faculty in Hiring for Antioch College
This petition calls for Antioch College to make all decisions about faculty hiring in consultation with the tenured faculty of the college who were improperly fired by Antioch University, and with representatives of the American Association of University Professors, and to offer tenured Antioch College faculty right of first refusal for positions for which they are qualified, according to AAUP guidelines.
The faculty who taught at Antioch College in its final days carry the unbroken institutional memory of the college and the meaning of an Antioch education. They have been integral to the struggle to keep open, and to reopen, the college, and to maintain its spirit and its unique educational mission that they’ve carried out for decades. Faculty tenure was violated by Antioch University’s closure of the college, and it is the ethical and professional responsibility of any institution that claims the legacy of Antioch College to honor that tenure. The college’s tradition of shared governance, and widely accepted conventions of governance in academia, expect that faculty are central in the development of curriculum. Including them in all decisions about faculty positions and the design of the program is not only the right thing to do—it’s the best thing for the college.
As Antioch College begins the process of hiring core faculty in anticipation of admitting a new entering class of students in fall 2011, the college has a responsibility to work in collaboration with the tenured faculty who were improperly fired by Antioch University, and with the American Association of University Professors, to first identify those positions in the reopened college for which tenured college faculty are qualified, and offer qualified faculty right of first refusal for those positions. The faculty and AAUP staff should work with the college administration to determine what jobs to post and who among the faculty are eligible for those positions. This is in keeping with the accepted academic practice of “emergency” or “opportunity” hires, used by institutions when an immediate need and unique qualifications are deemed more imperative than a long, costly national search: in this case, the unparalleled experience of teaching at Antioch College. [http://facultyjustice.org] National searches for faculty positions are not legally required.
It is rightly the college’s faculty, and not exclusively a board, administration, and consultants, that should design the college’s curriculum, including which positions are created and who is hired to fill those positions. As the American Association of University Professors stated in its 2009 report on the closing of Antioch College:
“The committee is concerned about the role that the Antioch faculty members who were released when operations were suspended will play in the development of the academic program at a reopened Antioch College and in teaching there when operations resume. The investigating committee trusts that the Antioch College Continuation Corporation will appreciate the fundamental importance of the tenure system and will offer reinstatement to those whose appointments terminated with the closing, restoring their tenure rights. Moreover, the committee trusts that the corporation will approve a system of shared governance when the college reopens, ensuring primary faculty responsibility for academic matters as called for in the Statement on Government of Colleges and Universities.” [http://tiny.cc/aaup]
As the alumni resolved at their 2008 reunion: “The Antioch College Alumni are committed to the uninterrupted continuation of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio as a residential institution of higher education with a tenured faculty.” [http://bit.ly/cT6O4q] The only way to do this now is to honor the tenure that has been awarded to faculty of the college.
For these reasons, we call on Antioch College to suspend all faculty job searches until it agrees to follow AAUP guidelines. We stand in full support of the 14 tenured Antioch College faculty and their request that representatives of their group, the Ad Hoc Tenured Faculty Committee, the AAUP, and Antioch College develop an action plan for implementing these guidelines.
Displaying 882 confirmed signatories.
Ed M. Koziarski
Antioch College 1997, Chicago alumni chapter organizer
Alan Benard
Antioch College 1992 - Former Director, National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools (NCACS)
Matthew Baya
Antioch College 1992, Downeast Maine alumni chapter organizer
Without the former faculty Antioch is a body without a soul. I can't believe we've come this far only to leave them behind when we need them the most!
Kim-Jenna Jurriaans
Antioch College 2008, Graduate Candidate in International Affairs, The New School
Because we didn't just fight for the campus and the name Antioch, but for those who made it the unique institution of learning that was worth fighting for in the first place.
Matthew Arnold
Antioch College 1999
Tim Noble
Antioch College 2002, MFA Graduate Student University Of Maryland Baltimore County
J. Greg Williams
Antioch College 1995, Alumni Board Member
Don Wallace
Alumni Board, Antioch College \\'60
Kristen Muir
Antioch College 2005; MFA UW-Madison; Instructor, Madison College, Madison WI
Abandoning the faculty who guided the Antioch spirit, who carried the school through its closure and kept it alive in non-stop mode is not only unethical, but a betrayal of Antioch's long-lived commitment to honor service and intellectual rigor. How can Antioch be reanimated without some of the people who helped maintain its spirit? On more practical terms, how can you possibly hire new faculty without any core faculty? Bring back the people who have been holding up Main Building with their bare hands.
Kerstin Cornell
Antioch College \\'03, M.A. University of Western Ontario \\'09, Faculty Western Michigan University
David Renz
Antioch College 1992
Be ashamed to not bring them back!
Andrew \"Ozz\" Oswald
Antioch \\'92, Western Michigan \\'10, Boston Alumni Chapter co-lead
This has been a long standing concern for many. We must address this respectfully to all and come to consensus as a group. Not to do so, is a mistake.
Migiwa Orimo
Village of Yellow Springs, Nonstop Institute
Michael Casselli
Class of 1987/Nonstop Executive Collective Member 2009-2010
Why is it that the name, the alumni, the emeritus faculty and the endowment are all considered as part of the continuation of the college while the fired faculty are not?
Susan Opotow
Antioch College \\'65, Alumni Board, City Univ. of NY faculty
Rowan Kaiser
Antioch College \\'05
Lincoln Alpern
Antioch College class of 2011, Nonstop Antioch, Nonstop Institute of Yellow Springs, Antioch Community Student Union
Antioch College will not be truly saved until the people who were wrongfully cut loose in the 2008 closing receive justice; not until the living educational community (the Antioch "DNA" which was so vaunted in 2007-2008) returns to the heart of the institution presently calling itself Antioch College. Simply put, without faculty reinstatement, Antioch College has not been saved and may never be.
Prof. Arthur Dole, PhD
Antioch \\'46, Emeritus Prof of Education, U. of Pennsylvania
I support this petition strongly not only as an alumnus but also as an AAUP member.
William Parke-Sutherland
Antioch College alum, class of 2006
Kate Sterling
Contributing ($) friend ever since threat of closing. Sister of emerita faculty member.
Without the tenured faculty, Antioch College cannot be the college I have sacrificed to save. I'm retired, and those $ don't come easily.
julie jacobs
alumnus
Otha Davenport
Friend of the College, NSIYS
Michelle Hansen
Worked with Antioch admissions as an educator, then my daughter attended Antioch 07/08.
Katharine Shank
Antioch College 1979
Gerry Bello
Antioch College 1997 NonStop Institute, Co-op Employer
Marjorie Jensen
Antioch College \\'07; MFA Mills College \\'10; E-structor at Smarthinking
Marjorie Dole
Alum
Nichole Basile
Antioch College, 1991
Judith Wolert-Maldonado
Antioch College 2005
Jeanne Kay
class of 2010
Tony Dallas
Alum
Antioch is an idea, a method of education geared, according to A. Morgan, to educate the "original thinker"—so that its graduates would be levers “to move the world.” This was a hard fought battle that was not, according to Morgan, achieved during his long presidential tenure. “Our trouble at Antioch,” wrote Morgan toward the end of his presidency, “is that in recruiting our faculty we must draw from the general reservoir of college and university teachers, and the old tradition is brought to Antioch. It requires tremendous effort to create new habits of thinking and acting, such as is demanded by the Antioch program.” Those “new habits of thinking and acting” that have been the genius of Antioch over the past seventy years have been passed down through its faculty. At this moment of renaissance it must be the genius of Antioch that is given life, and that can only happen if its former tenured faculty is engaged.
Amy Shaw
Class of 1998
Stick by them!
Innisfree McKinnon
University of Oregon, Antioch Alumna 1996
The college is not simply the buildings and grounds, but rather the people. Without the tenured faculty this might be a new college, but I have no relationship with that new institution and see no reason to donate my time or money to help it succeed.
Patricia Dair
Antioch 1975
Beth Gutelius
Class of 2000. PhD candidate at the University of Illinois Chicago
Any Antioch College worthy of the name would respect the dedication, talent, and struggle of the faculty.
Kathryn Leahey
alumna
David France
Antioch B.A. \\'93
Henry cherry
Alumnus
A faculty defines a college. Some say, makes it. Antioch's faculty is a universe of light....
billy roy shipley
alum
Monica Friedman
Alumna
It's hard to see myself continuing to donate money to an Antioch that cannot respect the people who invested their lives in Antioch.
Dan C. Shoemaker
Antioch College 1992/ Faculty, Bowling Green State University
Katherine Anne Stansbury
Antioch graduate
This faculty facilitated one of the best educational environments available anywhere, made terrific personal sacrifices for the sake of the College, and should remain an integral part of the College going forward.
Rose Pelzl
Yellow Springs, Nonstop Student, 5th Generation Antiochian
Terry Marchyok
Alumni
Andrew Barnes
Antioch College 1994
Matthew Woodcraft
MA Student (Postcolonial Culture and Global Policy - Centre for Cultural Studies) Goldsmiths, University of London
Loftin Wilson
class of 2010
Robin Simons
former Chicago Alumni Assn coordinator and class of 91
Alex Borowicz
Entering class \\'07
Theresa George Weeks
Antioch \\'91
Shameful if Antioch tenured faculty are not allowed back! Bring them back now.
Corinne Odiorne Pelzl
Antioch College \\'71, Yellow Springs resident
It is essential for credibility and success of Antioch College to make a plan for faculty hiring in concert with the fourteen formerly tenured faculty.
Mark Greenfield
Class of 86
Michelle Moskowitz Brown
Antioch College 1996
I support the tenured faculty who will ensure that Antioch College's new entering class understand the tenets of an Antioch education, and the college's history.
Nova Ren Suma
Antioch College ’97
E. Ryerson
Antioch College 1993, NYU/TSOA MFA 2006, NYU Faculty
Chrysanthi Lawrence
alumnus
Vanessa Query
Antioch College 2006
Foster Neill
Antioch College 2007
Megan McMenama
Antioch College Alumni
Dave Ream
Stanford University (staff)
GB Gitana-Woolf
Class of 1991
Elizabeth Goodney
Antioch--2008
Daniel E. Solis y Martinez
Class of 2006, Community Government 2005 -2006
Deborah Warfield
Antioch College 1994
Continuing to connect the classrooms in our minds to the communities in which we live, largely because of the Antioch Faculty.
Melissa Koch
University of California, Santa Cruz Gradute Student
Libby Marenna
alumnus of Antioch; student at New England School of Photography
Peter A. McGraw, Ph.D.
Antioch College Class of \\'65
Without the tenured faculty who were in place when the college was closed, any claim that a reopened Antioch College represents a continuation of the historic Antioch College would be without merit or substance. I would not consider myself an alumnus of an institution that was "Antioch College" in name only. Only faculty have the right, or the expertise, to develop a curriculum.
Nicole Makris
Antioch 02
Leisa Schaim
Antioch College 2001
Heidi Nutters
Antioch College 2004
Mary Ellen Dean Edy
alumnus, Faculty - Art Institute of Atlanta
Lauren Sabina Kneisly
Alum, former village resident
Antioch without it's former faculty is an Antioch without institutional memory.
Be ashamed to call yourself Antioch College without the faculty that made it so.
Jaq Greenspon
Alisa Rowe Kenney
Alumni, 1992
Catherine Brownstone-Stillwell
Alumui
Molly Kennedy-Adams
Oberlin
I can't think of a less reassuring act with which to begin the rescusitation of Antioch.
Rachel McKay
Antioch College 1991
To be blunt one of my teachers who was older and easily distracted from the lesson plan was one I remember well, was the most interesting, and I learned from the most. It is important to keep the spirit and soul of Antioch and honor the faculty who made us who we are and who will make the incoming students think!
Terry Blackhawk
Antioch College Alumni Association, Board Member, co\\' 68
Honor the tenured faculty. Implement AAUP guidelines now!
John Hales
alum
Antioch College, 1984.
Suparna Bhaskaran
Former Antioch College Faculty Member (1998-2004)
Jennifer Hunter
Jennifer Hunter
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cy Horowitz Muise
Antioch Y.S., \\'87-\\'91
Emily Kerlin Svendsen
alum
Jill Jackson
alumnus
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Oklahoma University College of Continuing Education
Jennifer Frick
Antioch Alum
Dorothy Werner
Advisory board NCACS
Kristin Morton
Antioch Class of 1992
Jill Fyfe
Class of 1995
Tom Okuku
Alum
Justin Calta
Alumni
Robert Apter
Antioch alumnus
Barry Rogers
Antioch College \\'78
Michael Pendleton
antioch college 1994
Sarah Braun
Antioch College 2007
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Antioch college alumnus
Linda Pasachnik
Antioch College 1979
Dan Holzman-Tweed
Class of 1990
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alumnus
Chad Johnston
Alumni \\'01
Mary Bess Ser
Antioch 2001
Tiffini Gorman
Antioch Alum -Class of 2003
Antioch College will not get any more of my hard earned money until I know that faculty have been returned to their rightful positions. Antioch is not just ideas and buildings, I would not have graduated from Antioch if it were not for the amazing and supportive faculty.
Brian maughan
Friend
Adrienne Burke
Friend of Anitoch
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Class of 2002
Irene Yen
friend of Antioch
dee wernette
alumnus
Also need to capture the "institutional memory" of the former faculty, whether or not they are re-hired!
Margaret Robinson Lynd
Antioch College, 1970
Levi B. Cowperthwaite
alumna
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University of Western Ontario
Alice Verney
Antioch College alumn (2004)
Please do not let Antioch forget that we are not only in need of a professors, but also a renewed interest in the arts-and in art professors at Antioch (despite the mainstream "trend" of saying that there is not enough government funding for artistic interest!)
John Wells
Antioch College class of 1993
Shawn Casey
Antioch \\'96
From this petition: "It is rightly the college’s faculty, and not exclusively a board, administration, and consultants, that should design the college’s curriculum, including which positions are created and who is hired to fill those positions." This isn't just about Antioch.
Sevgi Süngün Stephenson
I have very good friends in Yellow Springs that is teaching & thought at Antioch College. Also I\\'m an enthusiasts of Higher Education and I\\'m fond if Antioch College. I beleive It has done amazing for the community.
I've been a friend to the community and want to be a part of doing the right thing for it!!! SO LET'S DO THE RIGHT THING
Ines Valdez
U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Susan Beal
graduate and professor emeritus, saint xavier university
Pete Creelman
alumnus, 1967 graduate, co-leader, Phoenix area chapter
This is a right and just move and petition.
Gene Pellegrene
friend
Jeffrey J Williams
Carnegie Mellon University
Claudia Hommel
1972 - History
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Antioch College 2005
Rich McEachran
MA student (Postcolonial Culture & Global Policy) @ Goldsmiths, University of London
Hasan Kwame Jeffries
The Ohio State University
Adam Rose
Antioch College 2008
Mernet Larsen
University of South Florida Professor Emeritus
Laura Mullen
Louisiana State University
Neal Crandall
townie/ son of faculty
David Riede
Ohio State U
Rebecca Buell
Antioch College Alum
Daisy Cardenas
Antioch College 2003 \\\\ MPH Boston University School of Public Health 11\\'
Trent Cruz
University of Western Ontario
Candace George Thompson
Alum \\'67
Andrew Cornell
New York University
Eli Meyerhoff
University of Minnesota
Renee Hahn
alum 1992
Priscilla Zink
Antioch College, 1963
Emily Noelle Lambert
Alumni 1997
Kelly Connolly
Antioch College 2003, Chicago alumni chapter organizer
How the faculty are treated affects how alumni from the 1980s-2000s engage with the college. Alumni have strong personal relationships with members of the faculty. If the college shuts out the faculty, alumni will continue their relationship with the faculty--and not the college. Is the college willing to dismiss (at least) three decades of engaged and committed alumni along with the faculty? You might miss us.
Keith Whitmoyer
New School for Social Research
Christina Whitaker-Jones
Michael Schaeffer
friend of Antioch
Diane Roehm
Antioch College 2007
Antioch College truly changed my life, but it would be extremely difficult for me to support an Antioch that lacked continuity in the extraordinary faculty that defined my experience there.
The statement that it would be like 'a body without a soul' is spot on. A community is defined by the people who comprise it; without these people, it wouldn't be Antioch.
Viktor Maco
Antioch College 2006
Michelle Fine
Graduate Center, CUNY
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friend of faculty.
Carmel Malini Ammon-Mulloli
Alumna
I believe the Marx Brothers movie Horsefeathers offers us valuable insight into this whole process. I suggest that everyone view it.
Professor Wagstaff: [singing] I don't know what they have to say / It makes no difference anyway / Whatever it is, I'm against it. / No matter what it is or who commenced it, I'm against it! / Your proposition may be good / But let's have one thing understood: / Whatever it is, I'm against it. / And even when you've changed it or condensed it, I'm against it! / For months before my son was born / I used to yell from night till morn: / Whatever it is, I'm against it! / And I've kept yelling since I've first commenced it, I'm against it.
Natalie Feinberg Lopez
alumnus
It is imperative for the success of the college to call on tenured faculty, who dedicated their lives to education of Antioch's students. Without them we will lose out on 150+ years of the development of the schools fundamental education ideologies, values, and sense of campus community. Antioch has always embraced the new, but we are in a critical moment of development that requires input from those who remember the past, who can make this transition a seamless continuum.
Christine Price
Antioch McGregor Alumni and Special Education Teacher
Nina M. Raffaele Aponte
Alumni
Antioch it's time to prove this is an institution that does things differently. Now that You are New it's time to improve and deliber.
Janice Brown Meltzer
Antioch \\'69
Katherine Burkman
Prof. Emerita, OSU
Debbie Henderson
Wittenberg University
As a member of several groups of higher learning, Wittenberg and Clark College, I strongly support the concept of including faculty that had previously been an established part of the Antioch community. All help is needed in redeveloping the new college. Thank you.
diane pfeiffer
Antioch \\'93
Michael G. Bare
Alumni \\'02, New York Medical College MPH Candidate
Kim Davidson
Alumni, Class of 01
Diana Cate
friend
maggie ellinger-locke
alumnus, 2005
Mark Sheppard
Antioch student 1967-1972
Judy Spock
\\'54, Trustee \\'85-\\'97
Generosity of spirit is needed from everyone now! Honor Antioch values and those who exemplify them, for an inspiring start!
Tisha Sparks
Antioch College 2004
Mandela Freiberg
Alumuni class of 2009
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Alumnus \\'77
Nathaniel Clark
Antioch College 93\\'-97\\', Philadelphia alumni chapter organizer
twilight greenaway
Antioch College alumnus
Marie Trigona
Antioch alum 2001
Derek Henry
Antioch College 2005
Ben Menzies
Alumneu! 1997; Visitor, Harvard Glass Flower Exhibit, 2009
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Antioch College alum
I support faculty justice.
Clara Rivas
Goldsmiths
Scott Schafer
Antioch College alumnus
sarah elsea
friend
Deborah Curtiss
Class of 1960
Harriet Miller
Antioch College 1975
Christian Totty
Antioch College 2005
Pranav Jani
Ohio State University
Jennifer Peters
Antioch College Alumnus - 1978
Danielle Giudici Wallis
alumni
Danna Pope
Antioch College 2003, current MA Candidate SIT Graduate Institute
Rory Adams-Cheatham
Antioch Alum 2007
Antioch College is not the institution we fought for without its tenured faculty. Tenured faculty! Unionized staff! Shared governance! I stand in solidarity with the 14 tenured faculty members.
Joan Horn
Antioch College 1956, NonStop Institute Board, MS Ohio State Univ.
Alexis McCrimmon
Antioch College 2006
Matt McGrath
Alumni \\'93
No more donations to the college unless former professors are considered. My checkbook is shut for now.
Stacey A Silliman
Antioch alumni, \\'05
Mahina Embers
2008 alumnus
Cynthia Beth Rubin
Antioch College 1972, Part-time faculty, Rhode Island School of Design
The former Antioch faculty members have the imagination and insight to contribute to the innovative vision of the new Antioch.
Mariella Arredondo
Antioch College 1998
Nina Bennett
Antioch College, 1993
"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence." MLK
Christine Smith, PhD
Associate Professor, Antioch College
Tina Powis-Dow
Antioch College 1990
Natalie Funk
Antioch College 1999
When I got my first taste of Antioch as a visiting student through the SOCHE program, I encountered a classroom that was so unique and stirring that I could no longer be satisfied by anything less. Antioch raised the bar for what I expected in education. To go forward with our backs turned against the ones who made it so casts a long shadow over our professed ideals.
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Emeritus-Southern Illinois University
Amy Shuman
The Ohio State University
I am signing this petition because I am familiar with several faculty members' work; it is of the highest quality; they are very respected scholars, and Antioch would be wise to keep them both because of their dedication to the college and because they represent the highest standards of academic work.
adam knapp
alumnus
Melanie Griffin
Antioch College alum
Annette Newell
Friend
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Jami Thanos
Alumni!
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Associate Professor at Antioch College
The new college could not find a more dedicated faculty than my former colleagues.
Ruth Hoff
Wittenberg University, Associate Professor
I believe in and am inspired by an Antioch College that respects tenure, the bedrock of quality higher education.
mikegeer
Friend of the College
Kaycee Hinckley
Antioch College Alum \\'05
Lin Wod
Antioch College Alum \\'81
joshua j. kurz
Ohio State University
elizabeth johnson
university of minnesota
Carole Braun
friend and former employee of the College
Debra Moddelmog
Ohio State University
Christopher Caron
College Alumnus
Michael C. Carroll
Com Student, 06
Frankly I see no reason to donate to Antioch in the near future if I'm not familiar with the faculty, let alone the distant future when faculty is clearly seen as disposable.
Joel Woller
History Instructor, Carlow University (Pittsburgh)
Kenneth Huber
Antioch College friend & supporter, drop-in, 1955-65, Non-Stop Inst. board member
Sara Kerastas
Friend of the College
Jon Baker
Markrid Izquierdo
alumna
Tiffany Salter
OSU grad student and former Yellow Springs resident
Andrew Yale
University of Chicago
Eros
Antioch College \\'11
Antioch is more then a name and a place it's people, those who can't see that need to remember what it means to be an Antiochian.
Cecilia Aldarondo
University of Minnesota
gaël xavier xerxes lumière
Antioch College \\'11
What is a heart without blood? What is a mind without soul? What is a book without words? What is a home without love? What is Antioch without faculty?
Erin McCarthy
Alum
I would be remiss if I did not lend my voice to chorus of outrage. The fact that it is even a question is an obvious slander on our collective integrity. This is not how we treat our own, Antioch.
Wendy Lynn Zeldin
class of \\'07
Shawn Gaynor
Class \\'97
Kathleen Poley
MA Student, Goldsmiths, University of London
Ashley McNeely
Antioch College Alumni
Kristen Swanbeck
Alumnus 2002
Michael-David BenDor
Antioch College, \\'67
Caitlin Daoust
Alumni
Hire the tenure faculty who made Antioch a place I love and am so proud to have come from.
Eva Erickson
Class of \\'11, prospective student
I wouldn't want to graduate from an Antioch that disowns its family in order to have a clean, mainstream liberal appearance while claiming to be socially just. I love Antioch College deeply, but if it doesn't rehire the tenured faculty, it may as well be the University.
Michael Apostolidis
friend of Antioch
Lynn Estomin
Antioch \\'72
Keri Gregory
Antioch Alumnus
Snehal Shingavi
Assistant Professor, English, University of Texas, Austin
Carl Dean Reeverts
Antioch College 2008
The Faculty are the College!
Brooke Faulkner
Antioch Alum 1996
Alice Racz
Antioch Alumn
Joan C. Chrisler, Ph.D.
Connecticut College
Brian
step-son of retired, tenured Antioch College in YS professor
An institution with a rich, individual heritage such as Antioch College in Yellow Springs needs the continuity that tenured professors could provide.
Ann Theis
Antioch College 1999
Brie Jones
Antioch College class of 2005
Jon Wohlfert
Alum
Kye Potter
Antioch College, 2004
Gary Bucciarelli
Antioch College 2002, PhD student University of California, Los Angeles
Nagesh Rao
The College of New Jersey
Tim Eubanks
Class of 2000/ Former Alumni Board Secretary
Massimo Petrozzi
Johns Hopkins University
Jude Filler
alum
It is important to me for us to seek consensus, both as a practical matter and as a model for the world
David Boehnke
Co-Found Experimental College of the Twin Cities, Macalester Alumni
The world is watching!
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NYU
Do the right thing!
Kara Spaulding
The Ohio State University
Nick Szuberla
1995
Felicia Turano
friend of Antioch
Asha Canalos
Antioch \\'99
Clearly the college should support those who have served it so well- the incredibly dedicated and qualified faculty who have been the 'rock' of Antioch! If the college doesn't do the right thing by the faculty, then they will not only alienate those dedicated and tenured faculty members but also generations of Antioch alumni and the Yellow Springs community at large- not a great way to begin what should be a hopeful, transformative new era for Antioch- please do the right thing!
Dr. Garett R. Heysel
The Ohio State University
Do the right thing and respect academic freedom and tenure.
Anthony Barry
Class of \\'06
The core ideals which were the foundation of Antioch's educational structure can only be reconstituted by those who already know them well.
Deborah Bakan
Antioch 1974
David Roemer
Antioch College 1991
David A. Bishkoff
Antioch College 2008
Rachel Haines
Antioch Alumnus 2007
Ross Hyman
Antioch College 1990
If the college won't recognize the tenure of Antioch College faculty and hire them back they should call it something else. How about "Almost But Not Quite Entirely Unlike Antioch" College?
John Smith
Abraham Mwaura
Marshall University. UE Local 750
Frank Donoghue.1
Ohio State University
Leslie V. S. Millar
Do the right thing!
Shea Witzberger
Antioch Alum, Nonstop Alum
Teishan Latner
Antioch College class of 2000
Julia Dzwonkoski
former Herndon Gallery Director (2001-02))
Kathryn Hensley
Antioch College 1999
As a proud alum, I simply cannot fathom how this is even a negotiable topic. Antioch's heritage means something and those best qualified to lead the new campus should not be left behind at this crucial hour.
Fred Bacher
former professor, Brock University
Best of luck with your petition campaign and reinstatement of the tenured faculty
Haran King
Class of 2006
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deedee halleck
antioch alumna
this is way overdue
Connor Donegan
Stephen Chang
Judith Hempfling
President, Yellow Springs Ohio Village Council
Javier Briones
Antioch College 2004
jessamyn thompson-jacobs
antioch college alum
David Massey
Antioch College 2001
Christopher \"Avory\" Howlett
alumni
Adam Howard
Former Associate Professor of Education, Antioch College
James F. McManus
alumnus
Joshua Eichen
Antioch College alum, Class 2006
Armin Heurich
Aldona Satterthwaite
Executive Director, Toronto Botanical Garden
This is a shameful and unethical way to treat those who fought so hard to save the college. So much for lofty liberal ideals; so much for loyalty; so much for institutional memory. Tell me: What exactly does Antioch stand for now?
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Leuphana Universitaet Lueneburg, Germany
Caeli Good
Alumni 93
Amy Satterthwaite
Friend
M. J. E. Gregory
Antioch College 1992 / M.S. University of Maryland
Emily Pins
Antioch College 1992
Ingbert Floyd
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Cozette Russell
2001 Antioch College\\\\MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago\\\\TA Harvard University
Barbara Lattanzi
Associate Professor, Alfred University
Paul Myles
goldsmiths student
Cheryl A. Jackson
Friend of the college
Barbara Acosta
Antioch College 1984; Senior Research Scientist, The George Washington University
As a member of the Dole-Mann family, I strongly petition the ACCC and the administration of the revived Antioch College to honor the findings of the AAUP; principles of ethics, fairness and professionalism; and the legacy of Horace Mann.
Marlene Longenecker
Ohio State University
Aimee Sones
friend
Barbara Cantalupo
Penn State University
Ken Tivey
Dr. Michael I. Niman
Buffalo State College
Amy L. Campbell
Class of 2006
Benjamin Fasching-Gray
Friend
Frederika McClary
AFT/AFTSU emplyee/member
Julie Gallagher
Former faculty member (2003-2007)
Tara Mulvey
Antioch 2001
Andrea Wright
Antioch Alum 2004
Nicolas S. Ruley
Antioch College 2002
Dr. Doug Tewksbury
Niagara University
Ian McPhaden
friend
Hope Anne Nathan
Antioch College 1992, Former Pittsburgh Area Alumni/ae Chapter Organizer
Vanessa McDonnell
Antioch College 2002
Amy Schmidt
Antiochian
Patti Dallas
Daughter of former faculty member, Meredith Dallas
Sarah Duda
Antioch College 2003
Patrick O\'Shea
Alumnus 2004
Elijah Rutschman
Alumnus
Isaac Kamola
Wesleyan University
The work done by Non-Stop and other formerly tenured Antioch Faculty in keeping the spirit of Antioch alive is truly an inspiration. The Regents would be foolish not to recognize the amazing potential.
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SIT Graduate Institute
Tamara Stein
Antioch College Alum.
Tekla Taylor-Lagway
Antioch College alum
The Antioch faculty were always a central part of the governance of the college -- they should continue to be so.
Ashira
Antiochian
Christen Black
OSU grad student
Alison Stankrauff
Antioch Alumnus
As someone who now herself is in academia - and in a tenure-track position (just turned in my dossier this Summer!), I know the vital importance - on so many levels - of having a faculty with tenure status.
Sincerely,
Alison Stankrauff
Class of 1996
Alison Stankrauff
Archivist and Assistant Librarian
Franklin D. Schurz Library
Indiana University South Bend
P.O. Box 7111
South Bend, Indiana 46634
(574) 520-4392
astankra@iusb.edu
Robert Hayden Fosdick
Antioch College Alum
Elli Mayhem
Antioch Alumnus, Faculty - Art Institute of Atlanta
Steven Bognar
Horace Mann Society member, former Antioch College Asst. Professor
Heidi Bruce
SIT Graduate Student
Joshua Rodriguez
Class of 2007
Leah Steiner Suter
M.A. in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management, Candidate, SIT Graduate Institute
Lisa Borta
Antioch College 1992
Michael Griggs
Antioch College 1968
Francesca Sawaya
University of Oklahoma
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Antioch College alumnus
Shelby P. Chestnut
class of 05, CM 05-06 MS candidate at Milano the New School for Management and Urban Policy
Julie Taylor
Antioch College \\'06
Catherine E. Kelly
University of Oklahoma
Emily \"star\" Sepik
Antioch alum, 2001
<3
Larry Wolfe
alumni
"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity" Horace Mann
Joanna Ware
Class of 2008
Bart Leib
Class of 2000
I've already had more than enough cause to feel completely disassociated from the school. If the tenured faculty are shut out, it will simply prove that Antioch is no longer the school from which I graduated.
Megan Stuart
Alumni
Dorothy Kenyon
Amnesty International
Bowen Alpern
parent
Angela McIntyre
Alumni
Neil Coletta
Boston University
Antioch College, 2001
Cody Luedtke
Antioch College \\'08, Ph.D student, University of Georgia
Amy Koenig
friend
Elizabeth Eddy
Antioch College 1991
elizabeth Lucke
alum
J. Lynne Batik
Antioch College alum, now working for University of Aberdeen
The management of Antioch at the time of the firings was abysmal. This is an opportunity for the college to reclaim some of the talent and dedicated people that it lost, and undo some of the damage.
Juliet
Former student 07-08
Jilana Ordman
Antioch Alumna, Loyola Doctoral Candidate
Antioch's tenured faculty deserve the right of first refusal. I would not be working toward my doctorate and to become a professor myself had it not been for the faculty members with whom I worked at Antioch.
Jared Lucas
Antioch College
It's sad that there is even a debate..
Julie vandivere
Bloomsburg u
Valeda Stull
Antioch College; BA, 2002 \\\\ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MS, 2011
Marlene Hayes
Antioch College 2005
Larraine Granger
alum \\'67
Nathania Dallas
community member
Caitlin Murphy
Antioch Alumni
Mariposa Geller
Alumnus
Amber Froncillo
Antioch College 2008
Whitney Stark
Antioch College Alumn
Joe Rumbo
James Madison University
India Davis
Antioch College, 2008
James Robertson
Antioch College alum, 2008
Elizabeth Gates Clegg
Antioch College 1950
Kerry Gossage
Alumnus
Julie Johnson, Ph.D.
Dawson College / CEGEP, Montréal
Laura J. McClusky
Wells College
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Wells College
Wells College has fired 4 of its tenured faculty members also. I am one of them. The take-over of higher education by idiot bean-counters who know NOTHING of what college education is about MUST STOP!!! Faculty, YOU HAVE POWER!!! Organize!! Take back our profession!!!
Gary Brick
Antioch College 1991
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Mother of Alumni
Laura Campbell
Wells College
When all of our institutions are run by those who think only a business model should be applied, we are in danger of losing not only our educational system but our quality of life, too.
Bali Baatar
Alumni
Antioch College, 2006
Cary Nelson
University of Illinois
Unless the college hires a core of at least six former faculty, it will fail.
Milene Z. Morfei
Wells College
kae denino
central ohio rescue and restore coalition
A. Thomas Vawter, Ph.D.
Wells College
Laurie White
alum 1977
Ryan Agnew
friend of Nonstop Institute
Rani Crowe
Antioch College 2010
Because Antioch had the most talented, intelligent and devoted professors who worked harder and more intensely with the students for less money than any I have seen elsewhere.
Nikki Zielinski
Antioch College 2001; MFA, University of Oregon; Northwest Review Fellow, University of Oregon
Cheryl Espinosa-Jones
Nancy Margulis Martina
Antioch College Class of 1973
Tina Gross
St. Cloud State University
Jessica Julius
School for International Training
I am a student at SIT Graduate Institute and am classmates with an alum of Antioch we are experiencing a similar phasing out of our program and I would like to provide support for this institution
Edmund Cardoni
Executive Director, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
Catherine Burroughs
Wells College and Cornell University
Fredric Bogel
Cornell Univ.
Molly Finch
friend
Julia Swisher
Yellow Springs Community Member and Wells College graduate 2009
This shouldn't even be a conversation. What was the point of fighting for this institution if it's only going to slam the door in your face?
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Alum 2002
Please bring back the faculty.
Meghan Pergrem
Antioch College, 2008
Freddy Miranda
Friend of the College
jacqueline mary
amuni
Rachel Hamilton
Antioch College 2008
Nathan Arnett
Antioch alum; University of California, Santa Cruz LInguistics Dept.
Tamar Katz
Brown University
megan rosado
antioch college \\'97
Gina Potestio
Student
caroline czabala
former student
I believe it was extremely unethical of the university to fire faculty that have been promised a certain postision, that would employ them, and create their livelyhood. This was was stolen from the faculty who have been fired, without any consideration. A question that I ask myself is how can people act in ways that intentionally hurt other people and their communities?
In making this decision the University did not consult any of the community memebers that encompassed Antioch College and therefore was not acting from a place that served the interests of this community. The University was and is acting from a place of meeting its self interests. If the University would even try to attempt to open their minds to what the needs of the actual community was maybe this wouldn't have had to happen.
I hope that the Faculty that helped create and cocreat the unique culture that was Antioch College will be rehired inorder to help rejuvinate the Antioch College culture that was and that I experienced while attending there. It was a unique sort of culture, and one that is lacking signifigantly in this society.
Jose Baer
Antioch College 1987
Kate Hardwicke
former student
Antioch College would not be reopening if not for the incredible dedication and energy that the faculty demonstrated during the fight to keep the College alive. Without their participation in the rebuilding of the school, Antioch's spirit and philosophy will be lost. Antioch's amazing faculty is an integral part of the school and I hope it will continue to be so.
Justine Houghton
Antioch College 2007
Ed Chang
University of Washington
Solidarity and support from Seattle!
max traiman
antioch class of 2008
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former exchange student
Marcia Wallgren
Yellow Springs community member & friend of college
Brenda Lee Benek
Antioch College, 1982, WPa/Pgh Alumni Chapter organizer
I fully support our tenured faculty.
Alaina Ennamorati
SIT Graduate Institute
Katherine Spencer
University of Minnesota
Jules Rochon
antioch college 2002
Jen Halbert
\\'99 alum
leilah weinraub
antioch alum
niko kowell
Antioch College Grad, 2008
Megan Miller
University of Washington
Amanda Turner
Antioch Alum, graduate student Wright State University
Afkham Davis
Paige Clifton-Steele
Alumnus
Greer Paris
Antioch College 2010/Founder
Karen Kotiw
Class of 1998
Renee McMillan
Alumnus
Stacy Mathies
Friend of the college
Phillip Wooten
Antioch College Alum
Nicholas Peterson
Antioch College 2000, Boston Alumni Chapter, Co-Leader
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AUS student
Seth Kolon
Antioch College 2004
Arendt Speser
University of Washington
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MA Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths
Mackenzie Bristow
Antioch Alumni
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Antioch College alum, 2003
jacob chamberlain
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alum
when i had nothing else, i had antioch, which was made up of so many wonderful people who transformed my life that i can't help but sign this petition.
jill Downey
none
Martha Teghtsoonian
Antioch alumna
A new Antioch that embodies the ideals of the old Antioch will depend on new faculty and students learning from those who knew the old Antioch and can impart its ideals.
Gregory Breitenbach
class of 1995
Raven Murie
Graduate, YS resident, daughter of retired faculty member
These professionals kept the college going during the rough years, bore many of the financial burdens themselves personally, deserve the dignity of restoral.
Richard Kahn
Eric Wolf
Friend and Fan of Jill Becker
Seems only polite to open the door to a few of those who have gone before....
ken simon
old friend of the college
Robin M. Alpern
Parent of AC student
Lee Johnson
ACSU
Georgia Morris
Elliot Swain
friend of the college
Kathryn Hitchcock
Yellow Springs, Nonstop student
Janeal Turnbull Ravndal
Yellow Springs resident
I have lived in Yellow Springs only four years but took two fine poetry courses at Antioch before its close and have done what I could to support its renewal including taking courses offered by Non-Stop Antioch, I particularly admire Jill Becker whose skill, spirit and remarkable creativity would surely be a boon in any role she might take up for the new Antioch College. Please do not undervalue the importance of institutional memory as a support in avoiding former mistakes as well as in helping to carry on important traditions such as participatory government and a work component.
Donald Fleming
School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam NL
Barbarajene Williams Williams
nonstop student
Louise Smith
Antioch alum 1977, Antioch Faculty 1994-2008
Tony Conrad, Professor
University at Buffalo, Department of Media Study
I taught for three years at Antioch YSO, and its policies, history, continuity, and spirit are of vital importance to the whole field of higher education.
Charly Borenstein-Regueira
Parent of a former student
Tracy L. Stewart
Alumni - 1997
The former faculty have worked hard to keep Antioch in Yellow Springs, therefore they should be provided the opportunity to support new students through their professional education skills. Be fair and just.
Megan Fleck
08\\' grad
My education at Antioch College was amazing even in light of the closing. This would not have been so if the faculty had not been so determined and passionate about me and my development as a life time learner. Some faculty left in my final year, and I of course don't hold it against them, however those that stayed, that fought and persevered against the odds deserve their jobs back. They are the real foundation of Antioch's spirit and history. To not celebrate them and the victories they have had is counter to Antioch's legacy.
Flan Fry
Antioch College 1958
Carolyn Goelzer
guest faculty, theater dept. 2000
I am writing to specifically support Louise Smith, Theater Department Head, talented, dedicated and inspiring educator and mentor to Antioch students for 15 years.
Jon Schoenhorn
class of \\'76
Alison Hearn
University of Western Ontario
Elaine Hostetler
Concerned Friend of Antioch
Robert W. Lane
Saginaw Valley State University
Maude Carroll
alum
Kurt Miyazaki
Village of Yellow Springs, Nonstop Institute
Yarrow Wolfe
Alumnus
Jane Rago
Antioch Alumn
Elizabeth Rich
Saginaw Valley State University
wahji sanders
alumni
adam kozman
Antioch College 2005
Robert Francis
Antioch Colleg: Student 2005-2007, University of Minnesota class of 2011
Michael Yates
alumn
I'm surprised this is in question.
Ken Petri
Ohio State University, Director, Web Accessibility Center
This is a simple matter of fairness and credibility.
Marvin Bohn
Former Director of Dining Services
Natalie Martin
Class of 2007
Seamus Holman
2000
Paula Pustulka
Exchange student
Emily Dezurick-Badran
Antioch College, Class of 2007
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University of Washington
Ashley Briscoe
2003
Terry Hempfling
Antioch College, Class of 2004
John P. Burkett
University of Rhode Island
Christopher Phelps
University of Nottingham
Raj Chetty
University of Washington, Seattle
Phoebe morris
Alum
Joanne Landy
Antioch admirer
Catriona Elspeth Johnson
2005
Sophie Olsen
Antioch Alumn
Sandy Hildebrandt
Alumnus
Marvin and Betty Mandell
Matthew Frederic Walker
Antioch College alumnus 2004
Honor the tenured faculty. Implement AAUP guidelines now!
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friend of YS and Antioch
bruce cohen
worcester state university
E Haberkern
Erin Ruddell
Amanda Calder
Antioch College 2007, One of the organizers of the VT Alumni Chapter
Faculty and staff are the workers that make the college happen--their labor is central to everything about the college. Everyone can and should be involved in creating and figuring out the new curriculum, etc., but it has to start with the basic centrality of the faculty. We need to trust and support faculty, and recognize their contributions.
Alexis travis
Antioch \\'04
Ed Davis
Sinclair Community College professor
Mimi Werner
friend of college professor
Karen Lichtman
University of Illinois GEO
Charles Byrne
University of Illinois
Miriam Larson
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Jacob M. Baum
Graduate Student, University of Illinois
Carol E. Gay
John Hempfling
Nonstop student, prospective student
Ruben Quinones
Alumnus
Jeffrey Woods
Antioch College 1996
Rachel Fleischer
Former Student, mid to late 90\\'s
Timothy Stickle
Antioch College, 1997
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Antioch College 1999
Holly Lewandowski
Antioch College alumnus
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alumna
It was my teachers who changed me and changed my life while at Antioch, as much as the co-ops, my friends, and many adventures. Antioch's teachers are some of the best in the world!! As a professor myself, I can now see even more clearly the value and quality of the education I received from my Antioch teachers.
Elizabeth Flyntz
Antioch College 2002, MFA Student SUNY Buffalo
Clarissa Helton
Antioch College alumnus, 1998
Jocelyn Mosser
married to alum
greg mosser
alumni
Wm. Laddison Waldo
Class of 1967
Leonard Helton
friend
Taka Ono
Graduate Student, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Gina Abelkop
alumni
My professors at Antioch were an integral part of making my experience there one which shaped my brain in beautiful and brilliant ways. I believe that their being re-instated will be an important part of Antioch maintaining its status as a school that challenges its students to become engaged and passionate critical thinkers.
Bobby Marsh
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NYC
Many of the cutbacks taking place are the result of spreading anti-intelllectualism. Support the faculty. They are the future
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alumi 1998
Paula A Treichler \'65
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Laura Fathauer
Antoch College 1995
Dave Peterson
alum
Allen Richardson
Antioch College 1995
Marianne Whelchel
Professor Emerita of Literature and Women\\'s Studies, Antioch College
Joshua Waller
Alum
It takes a special sort of patience to herd cats, as Chris Hil used to say. One cannot build continuity from scratch.
Josh Steiner
Antioch College alum, 1999
caitlin c. stokes
Antioch College, 2002; MLIS, Pratt Institute, 2010; MFA candidate, Ohio State University
Robert Brecha
University of Dayton
Marla Fisher
Antioch Alum
My professors at Antioch were amazing, and they should be first in line to return.
Jerry Holt
Purdue University
Do The Right Thing.
Elizabeth Richards
Antioch College 2006, Former Chicago Chapter Coordinator, Horace Mann Society
Shannon Cates
Antioch College 1995
Travis R. Sanford
Antioch College 1994, Director Antioch College Alumni Association Board of Directors
I support the faculty of the former Antioch College. I believe it is essential for the success of the reopened college that professors with deep ties in the community and experience with the unchanging essentials of an Antioch education be first to be considered for tenured positions at the college. I do not think, however, this is a matter of tenure rights as those obligations lie with Antioch University who violated the spirit and the letter of AAUP policy and faculty handbook that served as the contract between the University and its faculty at the time the college was closed.
Alex M. Mobley
Friend of Paula Treichler and Cary Nelson
Erin Davis
Former Antioch College Faculty Member (2000-2005)
Gabriel Ervin
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Antioch College 2002
Brett Ashley Kaplan
Associate Professor, University of Illinois
Bill Robinson
Friend of the College
Chris Belcher
University of Southern California
Theo Majka, PhD
University of Dayton
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Univ. Toledo
Donald Foster
University of Cincinnati
Samuel Baker
The University of Texas at Austin
R. A. Kaster
Harvey J Graff
Ohio State University
Freddie Bowles
University of Arkansas
Richard Savini
California State University, Stanislaus
Mary LaMarca
Bryant University
Daniel Donoghue
Harvard University
Malini Johar Schueller
University of Florida
Rashid Khalidi
Columbia University; son of an Antioch alumna
Julia Eichelberger
Professor of English, College of Charleston
Naoko Shibusawa
Brown University
Rush Rehm
Professor, Stanford University
Ali Akbar Mahdi
Ohio Wesleyan University
Edward Mendelson
Columbia University
peter mclaren
Professor of Education, University of California, Los Angeles
Gary Dean
U. Cincinnati Medicine
Lois Rosow
Professor of Music, Ohio State University
Elizabeth Childs
Washington University in St Louis
We have missed Antioch. We need it back, and we need to support tenure as an institution.
Jared Gardner
Ohio State University
Daniel Novak
Louisiana State University
Chris Howell
Oberlin College
Tara Scherner de la Fuente
University of Cincinnati
E. Carr Everbach
Swarthmore College
Antioch is respected by other top institutions of higher education, and should remain so! Prospective students are aware of Antioch's reputation, as are prospective faculty.
Dr. Ritch Calvin
SUNY Stony Brook
Alan Friedman
University of Texas, Austin
Marjorie McLellan
Wright State University
Marilyn Parsons
University of Illinois at Urbana-
Marilyn Johnston-Parsons
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
I strongly support this proposal and urge you to approve it
Jodi Kelber-Kaye
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Sandra Baringer
B.A. 1976
Lecturer, University Writing Program
University of California, Riverside
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Ohio State University
Nancy Welch
University of Vermont
Joseph Nechvatal, Ph.D.
SVA
Richard Halpern
Johns Hopkins University
David A. Bello
Assistant Professor
Congratulations.
Lynne Tirrell
Philosophy professor, U. Mass Boston
K. Dian Kriz
Brown University
denise burge
University of Cincinnati
Please help to preserve the special and unique place that Antioch is.
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Agnes Scott College
Don Ross
University of Vermont
Gregory M. Miller
University of Toledo
Richard P. Ambrose
Emeritus Professor of Teaching Leadership & Curr Studies, Kent State University
Kim Jacobs-Beck
University of Cincinnati Clermont College
John Shoptaw
UC Berkeley
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Wright State University
Judith Butler
Professor University of California Berkeley
DeSales Harrison
Oberlin College
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Carleton College
William H. Laird Professor of Philosophy and the Liberal Arts, Emeritus
Thomas Urban, PhD
tony crowley
scripps college
Dr Joel Cohen
Retired from CCC
Kerby Miller
University of Missouri and Queen\\'s University of Belfast
John Sarraille
California State University Faculty
MAURICE ZEITLIN
Distringuished professor, Sociology, UCLA
Is there a defense or legal expenses fund?
Robert Lehman
North Central College
Barry Phillips
University of Massachusetts (ret.)
Brenda Wirkus, Ph.D.
John Carroll University, Professor of Philosophy
also long-time member of the AAUP. The faculty and the students ARE the College.
Masood Raja
University of North Texas
Stephanie Paterson
California State University, Stanislaus
Glenn Talaska
University of Cincinnati
Josh Gass
Ohio State University
We need to continue to value people who think deeply about their subject areas for long periods of time if we want to avoid trashing American higher education. Figure it out.
Carol GIgliotti
Emily Carr University
Linda Hunt Beckman
Professor Emerita, OU
I am so glad Antioch may open again. LHB
Walter Pechenuk
A friend of Antioch College
Judith Kroll
University of Texas at Austin
Carolyn Kyler
Washington & Jefferson College
Angela Curran
Carleton College
Please do the right thing, and hire back the professors who were let go--they have the experience that Antioch needs right now
Samuel Weber
Northwestern University
Stephen Tapscott
Literature, MIT
Thomas Martin, PhD
Sinclair Community College
I taught at Antioch 1987-89 and know many of the affected faculty. This project represents the right and ethical thing to do.
Evie Shockley
Rutgers University
Dana Rabin
University of Illinois Urbana- Chamaign
Angela Miller
Washington University
Steven Hirsch
Tufts University
E Swenson
JOhn Carroll University
Emilye Crosby
SUNY Geneseo
ira shor
City University of NY
Werner Sollors
Harvard University
Bill Younglove
California State U. Long Beach
David Roselli
Scripps College
Patrick lichtu
Columbia college chicago
Sara Butler
Miami University
Caitlin Snyder
former student
I love Antioch. I am so proud to be one of its graduates. The unjust firing of its faculty still angers me. I am in full support of this petition and wish all the best for the school.
Claudio Fogu
Assocaite Professor at UC Santa Barbara
Neni Panourgia
Columbia University
Dr. Terry Moore
Ass\\'t. Professor Emeritus-Ohio State University
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Univ. of Washington
John Bugge
Emory University
maria helena lima
SUNY Geneseo
Whitney Womack
Miami University Hamilton
Lowell Gallagher
UCLA
Colin Jager
Rutgers University
Prof. Elin Diamnd
Rutgers University
Dennis Kortheuer
California State University, Long Beach
Cheryl Koopman, Ph.D.
Stanford University
stephanie libbon
Kent State University
Katherine Jellison
Ohio University
Charles Altieri
UC Berkeley
Louis Kampf
MIT
Andrew Rosalsky
University of Florida
Thomas Kim
Scripps College
Penelope Dugan
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Without the institutional memory of the faculty, Antioch won't be Antioch
Dr. Mary Marcel
Bentley University, Waltham, MA
Peter Jack Tkatch
University of Vermont, United Academics/AAUP-AFT
John B. Forbes
University of Vermont
John M. Gourlie
Yitzhak Sharon
Professor, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Elliot Gaines
Wright State University
Christine Stonebraker, Hiram College 10\'
New Student Affairs Professional at Kent State University and social justice activist
Paul Weithman
University of Notre Dame
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Lafayette College
Jon Biddulph
Programme Leader, B.A. Interactive Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University, Uk
I recently asked my students if they felt their previous education had been to encourage them to 'question' or to 'comply' after a considerable wait the sad answer came 'to comply'. This is the challenge we all face. All strength to Antioch, symbolic of a global fight for real education.
David Shiman
university of Vermont
Jeffrey Barnouw
University of Texas at Austin
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University of Toledo
Sasha Torres
University of Western Ontario
Carol Jacobsen
University of Michigan
John Mowitt
University of Minnesota
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University of Cincinnati
Gillian Johns
Oberlin College
linda stein
President of Have Art: Will Travel! Inc.
Prof. Timothy Brennan
University of Minnesota
Lynette Carpenter
Ohio Wesleyan University
Kevin G. Barnhurst
University of Illinois
Judy R. Smith
Kenyon College
Michele Vialet
Ph.D. U Penn 1985, Friend of the college
To have a meaningful college-level education, students, parents, professors, and administration need to bring their minds together and achieve the learning goals that will best serve the youth to develop and direct their creativity in vital, responsible, and productive avenues.
Amy Brandzel
UNM
David C. Riccio
Faculty, Kent State U; B.A.,Middlebury College, \\'59
Ramona La Roche
Antioch University Alumni
Soren Palmer
University of Cincinnati; North Carolina State University.
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Dr. Claude Epstein
Richard Stockton College
Eileen Boris
University of California Santa Barbara
Jay Murphy
University of Aberdeen; MA from Antioch U in 1993
Mary Jean Corbett
Miami University
Hester Gelber
Stanford University
Linda Fertal
Cuyahoga Community College
Maria Damon
University of Minnesota
I went to Hampshire College myself, so I know how precious these kinds of alternative institutions are, and how fragile; in times of stress, they are often the hardest hit. Antioch deserves to be what it has been, and tenured faculty deserve to serve in the ways in which they were promised when hired. Please look into your hearts and do the right thing here. There are valuable resources, irreplaceable even, among the tenured faculty who are still willing to serve and have the right to do so under common academic practice.
Judith C. Rohrer
Emory University
James Simpson
Harvard University
Lori Askeland
Wittenberg University
Lisa D. Swaim
Kenyon College
Scott Bruton
Rutgers University
Tamara Kneese
New York University
YouYoung Kang
Scripps College
Jonathan Cope
College of Staten Island, City University of New York
I understand that the new institution may not be able to rehire all of the old tenured faculty from the old Antioch and that some difficult decisions lie ahead. While the new institution has no legal obligation to honor the tenure of the old college, it has a strong ethical obligation to do so.
David Peter Lawrence
University of North Dakota
Leslie Bow
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Andor Skotnes
The Sage Colleges, Troy, New York
Justice demands that this be done!
John F. Snyder
father of 2008 graduate Caitlin R. Snyder
Paula M. Krebs
David D. Witt, Ph.D.
Akron-AAUP
As the vice-chair of AAUP's Collective Bargaining Congress, I am 100% behind the Antioch College tenured faculty and their right to be re-employed and resume their duties as faculty. Offering each tenured faculty member an opportunity to return to the job they lost through no fault of their own is not only fair and just, it is the moral and ethical thing to do
-ddw
Dr. Maria Luisa Guardiola
Swarthmore College
Deborah Goldsmith
City College of San Francisco
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College of Southern Nevada
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University of Oregon
Your battle is connected to those we face at all levels of the academy--the diminution of expertise in the name of balance sheets.
Brent Edwards
faculty, Columbia University
A. E. Wallace Maurer
Ohio State University
Signing this petition is an act of faith which is open to swift vigorous incisive competent corrective argument should it show any unanticipated or deliberate compromise of the priceless impetus of the idea (and accomplishments) of historc Antioch College. This in essence has been a context propitious for the ignition, contagion, chain reaction of the fullest individual and collective reaches of human creativity.
susan iverson
Kent State University
in solidarity
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Katherine C. King
Professor at UCLA
Dianne Vipond
California State University, Long Beach
Waqas Khwaja
Agnes Scott College
Frank Romer
Chair, Foreign Languages and Literatures, East Carolina University
Suzanne Olmsted
I am an Associate Professor of Visual Arts who was fired with 25% of the tenured faculty as a contract defying act with the same ignorance of what a school is, how teachers make a school and students need tenured faculty!
Donald R. Pollock
Friend of higher learning that isn\\'t B.S.
I'm sick of seeing colleges being treated as big businesses.
victor margolin
University of Illinois, Chicago
Joseph J. Fhaye
Manhattan College
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Kent State Universtiy
Tammy Clemons
Nancy A. Naples
University of Connecticut
George O\'Brien
Georgetown University
Lori L. McIlvain
University of Dayton
W. Henry McDonald
U. of Ok.
I attended Antioch from 1965-66.
Susan Esman
WMU-AAUP Chapter
Ivan Gaskell
Harvard University
Mark Barnett
Auburn University
David King
Auburn University
Betsy Eudey
California State University Stanislaus
James McLean
SUNY faculty
Lesley Wheeler
Washington and Lee University
Fahamisha Patricia Brown, Ph.D.
Metropolitan College of New York
Angharad Valdivia
University of Illinois
Edward Muir
Northwestern University
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California State University Stanislaus
Douglas Mao
Johns Hopkins University (Chair, Dept. of English)
Christina Moore
Friend of Anticoh
James C Miller
University of Maryland
Marie Hertzler
Wright State University
Al Petrosky
CSU Stanislaus
Michael Kreyling
Vanderbilt University
Margaret Russett
University of Southern California
Jennifer Terry
UC Irvine
Teresa Meade
Union College
Susan Glosser
Lewis & Clark College
humberto garcia
Vanderbilt University
John Streamas
Washington State University
Sally Billings
Professor of Anthropology, College of Southern Nevada
Lance Svehla, Ph.D.
The University of Akron
Berl R. Oakley
University of Kansas
Valerie Sayers
Professor, University of Notre Dame
Daniel Cottom
University of Oklahoma
(Karen) Lee Ryan
Columbus City Schools
Rebecca Edwards
Wright State University
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Georgetown University
Michael Smith
Ithaca College
Melissa Brown
Stanford University
Arisika Razak
California Institute of Integral Studies
Teresa Marrin Nakra
The College of New Jersey
Mysoon Rizk
University of Toledo
Monica Brzezinski Potkay
College of William & Mary
Jamie Huber
Southern Illinois University/friend of the college
Jamie Huber
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Brian Harnetty
Faculty, MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts, Goddard College, Vermont
David Duff
University of Aberdeen, Scotland UK
Juliet Koss
Scripps College
E. Jeffrey Mask, Ph.D.
Wesley College, Dover, DE
Faculty members ought to sit on the board of every college. The recent history of Antioch shows why that is necessary.
Deborah Fleming
Ashland University
friend of Antioch and the Yellow Springs community
Jeffrey Montez de Oca
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
R. Hebein
BGSU
edwin griff
University of Cincinnati
Laura McGough
George Washington University
Why would the new leadership abandon academic excellence and the holders of the institution's intellectual history?
Joy M. Oriol
Antioch College 1994
Wendy Ake
Ohio State University, Graduate Student
Patricia Gelmini
Antioch College alumnus
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Colorado State University
Brian Springer
Friend of the College, NSIYS
igor vamos
RPI
Rebecca Nordstrom
Antioch College class of 1972, faculty at Hampshire College, AAUP member
Joseph Slaughter
Columbia University
Julie Sangster
antioch college
Richard J. Paul
AAUP U. Cincinnati
Christopher Matthews
Washington & Lee University
Elmo Painter
Antioch College Alum
raymond tumarkin
antioch alumnus
abby lappen
alum \\'77
Lynn Powell
Oberlin College, visiting faculty
Selena Kaplan
alumni
Mindy Hilt
Antioch College 1993
Hannah Carbonneau
Antioch College Alumnus
Lydia Gibson
Antioch College 1997
Armenta acevedo
Alumni
Woooohoooo! Go Antioch!
Walter Scott
Antioch College 1995; PhD student, American University
Laurie A. Paul
Antioch College alumna, Princeton University alumna, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (associate professor).
As a tenured faculty member at a research university, I want to strongly urge my colleagues at Antioch to offer the improperly fired tenured faculty of Antioch the right of first refusal.
Robin Simons
Antioch Alum, \\'91, former head of Chicago Alum group
Do the right thing! also, what happened to that victories for humanity thing? It applies!
d. olivier delrieu-schulze
President of Graduate Student Association SUNY Buffalo
Abby Pike
Antioch College 2000
Lizzie Kucharski
Antioch College, 2002,
Ross Howard
Antuoch College \\'07
Amy Foust Macris
Antioch Alum \\'98
Antioch's tenured faculty are some of the best, brightest, most creative and passionate professors I have ever met, and I have dealt with many. Antioch was very lucky to have these folks in the first place; what was done to them is an outrage and a tragedy. The idea of not giving them their positions back and of doing a job search while they have been tirelessly fighting for several years now on behalf of the College they have devoted their lives to is an outrage of profound proportions. We fought to keep Antioch alive and get back its honor; the only just course of action is to reinstate ALL of our dedicated tenured faculty immediately into whatever position most closely fits their expertise if their original position has been eliminated, or their original position if it has been retained. This is the only honorable, honest course of action in this case, and it needs to happen asap.
Kelly Frazier
Antioch class of 2011
Dylan Merriam-Stelfox
Antioch College 2007
John Johnston
Antioch College Alum 1975
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Antioch Alum 96-98
Sara McClelland
University of Michigan
Maria Torre
The CUNY Graduate Center
Suzanne C. Ouellette
Graduate School, CUNY
Sarah Berger
College of Staten Island & the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Becky B. Gregory
parent of Antioch Alum, 1996
David Kritt
College of Staten Island, CUNY
The continuation of this proud institution without its faculty and in defiance of faculty governance is a Pyrrhic victory. It may make money, but it won't educate.
John Christensen
University of Southern California
Stephen Soldz
Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
These faculty served Antioch wsell and are its soul. Without them, the school will not be Antioch.
Burton L. Alperson
California State University, Los Angeles
Jonathan Cheek
Professor of Psychology, Wellesley College
I attended Antioch College during 1971-72
Wendy Williams
Associate Professor, Marshall University
F. Tyler Sergent, PhD
Marshall University faculty, social justice advocate
The right and just action in this case does not require a legal team or even a committee meeting; it is prima facie. Tenure is tenure. It does not end with a layoff or a change in management. Hire back the tenured faculty. Antioch has the opportunity to be a bulwark of social justice, so why choose to be a pariah of higher education instead? If they choose the latter, then professional academic organizations and honor societies should boycott Antioch in perpetuity.
Alex Rutherford
York University
Bob Sterling
Tidewater Community College
Dr. Trudy Bond
Brad Olson
National-Louis University
Tod Sloan
Lewis & Clark College
Do the right thing!
Christine Bachman
University of Houston-Downtown
Nancy Frye
Long Island University
Marina Donovan
Antioch College \\'05
Theodore E. Durbin
Class of \\'93
Let's make sure the college was worth resurrecting.
Stevie Burnich
Alum
Jane M Ferguson
Antioch College, 2000, Australian National University
Erik Schnabel
Antioch College 1998, Former Co-Community Manager 1998-99
Nicole Bayani
College Alumnus
Cassie Collins
Antioch College 2008
CCarl Hyde
Allumnus 1948
Patricia Brooks
City University of New York
Sara gilgenbach
Antioch alum
Regina Day Langhout
friend
Robert Garot
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Selma Hudson
friend of many alumni
Basia Miller
Antioch College \\'59
The AAUP stands for academic integrity and the interests of faculty everywhere. Their advice to us in rehiring Antioch tenured faculty is sound - Following it helps establish the good name of the new College, in the absence at present of accreditation. Following the AAUP advice will assure the continuity between the old and the new for Alumni, applicants, and long-time supporters of the college.
Amy Cabaniss
Antioch University New England
Jonny No
Antioch College 2005, Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute 2009
Sibelan Forrester
Swarthmore College
Stanley Krippner
Saybrook University
Amy Roeder
Antioch College 1996
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Arizona State University
Antioch College has a long history of excellence in education. I hope that the record can continue in the future.
Mark Weiss
Antioch College 1972
Lorena M Ruiz
The New School University
Jonathan Bach
The New School
Scott Miller
The New School
Melissa Holmes
friend of Antioch
Kim Hurley
The New School
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The New School University
Carrie James
Samantha Maronek
Alumnus, Class of 2004
Heather \"Felix\" McCullough
Antioch College alumnus
Lela Klein
Antioch Alumni
Nicole Irizawa
Antioch College \\'91
diane.fishbein
Paloma Dallas
long-time Yellow Springs resident
Milton Schwebel
emeritus Rutgers University
Our two sons are Antioch graduates (1965 & 1970)
I am an emeritus professor & dean, Rutgers University
Tom Blumenthal
University of Colorado and alumnus
Karali Pitzele
Antioch Alum, Principal of The Green School in Brooklyn, NY
The faculty are a living continuation of the vision of Antioch and need to be part of the continued vision-making to the greatest degree possible so Antioch's mission can live on with continuity, even though new structures are needed.
Tei Okamoto
antioch college alum.
Alicson Knowland
Antioch College alum \\'04
Charles Tu
University of California, San Diego
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Bianca Sopoci-Belknap
Antioch College Alumna, & former staff: NM Center for Cooperative Education Coordinator
Salli Zimmerman
Nassau Community College/SUNY
joshua alsup
alum \\'03
Heather (Murray) Livingston
Antioch College alumni
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Antioch College 2002
Wilberta Eastman
Antioch alumnus
Christina La Barre
alum \\'67
Tina Chanter
DePaul University
Felice Homann
Antioch College B.A, 1960; Columbia University, M.A., 1962
Trudy Abrams
Alumna, wife of deceased Co-op Professor Rich Abrams
Rich and I witnessed the Troubles that began with non-Antiochians usurping control and led to the closing and near death of the College. A resurrected Antioch College needs the memory and advice of the tenured faculty who were fired. That is not only fair, it is true to Antiochian values.
E. Kirsten Dahl
alumna
Rachel Townsend
antioch college 2002
The Faculty of Antioch College who found themselves unemployed June 2008 had consistently given above and beyond what their job descriptions encompassed out of a firm belief in the ideals of Antioch. Over the years they taught without pay when the college was bankrupt in the 70's and forgave portions of their salaries in order to retain staff positions. You just don't hear about a group of professionals committed like this to an institution and what it stands for. To treat them like second class citizens is appalling for all they have done to provide us with the world class education we received at Antioch College. If tenure had not existed then, many of those dedicated professors may have been forced out when they voiced opinions contrary to what various administrations or board of trustees agendas were. To employ a faculty without tenure is to employee a faculty constantly weighing their voice against the status quo of the current administration and board for fear of finding themselves unemployed. This does not sound like the Antioch College I know and love.
Margo (Lee) Lowenstein
Antioch College 1990
tex clark
Class of 1995
Rebecca Schein
Carleton University
Pat Taylor
Antioch College 1955, 20 yr. tenured faculty member St. Univ. of NY Coll. at Brockport
Hiring some or all of these tenured Antioch College faculty is critical to incorporating the community spirit and culture of Antioch into the reborn Antioch College
Edna Small, Ph.D.
Antioch College, 1953
It is disheartening to see this being treated by the currentnt administration as a legal issue, rather than a moral one. In addition to our institutional responsibilities to the tenured faculty, there are clear guidelines in the academic community that bear on the issue.
We welcomed the support of the AAUP in our efforts to regain our independence. Let's follow their guidance to function within the best standards available.
Melvin L. Kohn
I am the widower of an Antioch alumna; a friend of several other Antioch alumni, and an admirer and active supporter of an independent Antioch college. I am also a tenured professor of sociology at the Johns Hopkins University and a member of the AAUP.
The Board may have no legal responsibility to the tenured faculty who were fired by the University when it (temporarily) closed the College,but the Board certainly has a moral responsibility to the College's tenured faculty. Moreover, as a matter of good governance in the Antioch tradition, the Board should avail the College of the services of the experienced faculty in developing curriculum and re-establishing the College's distinctive values and educational philosophy.
Menucha Boomer
alumna
Flan Fry
Antioch College 1958
Scott Kurashige
University of Michigan
vytautas nasvytis
photographer/friend
It appears the SPCA does a better job with animals than Antioch's Board with humans.
nola woodland
alumnus, 07
god preserve the dying utopias
Bill Houston
Retired Antioch Teacher
Roosevelt, do the right thing!
Marcia (White) Ashton
Class of 1971
Sam Spiewak
Antioch College 2002
