[Acseattlealums] Seattle Area Antioch Alumni Meeting & Ice Cream Social - May

[Risa Grimes]

The phone number is 1-800-411-6780.

"Gare Calhoun" <gcalhoun at antioch-college.edu> on Tuesday, April 17, 2007
at 10:45 AM -0500 wrote:
>From: "Steve Benowitz" <stevebenowitz at comcast.net>:
>
>Seattle Area Antioch Alumni Meeting & Ice Cream Social
>
>Sunday, May 20, 2007
>
>2:00 to 4:00 pm
>
>Antioch Seattle
>
>2326 Sixth Avenue, Seattle
>
>Tom Haugsby, Professor and Director of the Antioch Co-Op Center, will
>speak about the planned Seattle Co-Op Community and discuss how local
>alumni can help. The community will provide connections for students to
>alumni and friends of the College as tutors, mentors, and
>experienced-hands that are nearby; assistance in job placement (done
>earlier on campus and in cooperation with Co-op faculty leaders); help
>locating housing; adjustment assistance (connecting to utilities, interest
>groups, social ties, etc.); all in all, an academic program aimed at
>deepening and making more sophisticated a students understanding of
>“place.”   Periodically, students get together to share stories, debrief,
>get support, find help in solving problems at work or in living
>situations. A program of “professional development” is included that
>focuses on various matters aimed at improving student work performance
>such as working effectively with supervisors, getting some technical
>assistance for completing work projects, learning how to work within
>organizational policies and procedures, improving required writing skills,
>etc. These topics, developed by the Co-op Community Coordinators with a
>system of alumni support, can be tailored to individual or small groups of
>students with similar needs/concerns.
>
>Angie Glukhov, Associate Director of Admissions and Financial Aid, will
>discuss the vital role in recruitment that Seattle area alumni can play,
>and will address current and future trends in enrollment.
>
>The ice cream social will feature Young’s Jersey Dairy ice cream, flown in
>from Yellow Springs especially for this event.
>
>Please RSVP to (insert phone number) no later than May 10, 2007 to let us
>know you are coming.
>
> 
>
>Antioch College Alumni Association Board Meeting Update
>
>March 2 -3
>
>Bradley Wilburn
>
>Both Tim Klass and Bradley Wilburn were in attendance from the Seattle
>area.
>
>The Alumni Association Board Meeting was primarily held in the Glen Helen
>Building.  Prior to our arrival a significant change was underway within
>the administrative structure of the college.  Several positions were
>abrogated, due in part to an administrative realignment to streamline
>internal operations to help the college operate more efficiently and
>forestall projected financial shortfalls this academic year and into the
>future.  Several key individuals, of note Jimmy Williams (Dean of Student
>Affairs), were laid-off.  A number of students were upset by the layoffs
>and voiced their concerns with fellow Board members.  Steve Lawry
>addressed this issue head-on early Friday morning, as well as sharing
>information surrounding Curriculum, environmental studies, his vision of
>global citizenship and social justice.  He also addressed questions raised
>by the Board during our morning session.
>
>Mid-morning we gathered at the Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and
>Intellectual Freedom to listen to Dana Patterson, the first Director of
>the Center, address her short and long-term goals for the Center.  As
>envisioned, the Center will be open to the larger community as a resource
>and public assembly venue.  The Center’s Mission and Goals are available
>upon request by visiting Antioch’s home web page.  
>
>We participated in a panel presentation entitled; Curricular Development,
>that included Tom Haugsby (co-op community), Hasaan Nejad (Learning
>Community), and Christine Smith (faculty).  The presentation provided
>lesson learned from the recent past and cast a positive light on the
>direction on the New Curriculum.  An acknowledgement of the demand on
>faculty time was shared, but overall faculty, students, and administrators
>were pleased with the level of learning occurring within this
>collaborative environment.  For more information about the New Curriculum,
>visit Antioch College’s home page and click on academics. 
>
>Friday evening we attended a lively community meeting at McGregor.  We
>were genuinely impressed with how the students conducted themselves in the
>heat of a highly energized moment.  The hot bottom item was the recent
>layoffs on the campus.
>
>The following day the Committees (Association, Communications,
>Development, Nomination, and Reunion) had working session and report-outs
>to the general assembled Board that took up most of the day.  I detailed
>report from the Committees and minutes from the general meeting will be
>forward to you in the near future.  With the election of new Board
>Officers finalized, Nancy Crow ’70 President, Ina Frank ’60 Vice
>President, the meeting was soon adjourn until reunion weekend
>
>Our charge going into the Alumni meeting was to secure commitments for our
>next Seattle event.  We want to be fully engaged in building Seattle’s
>Co-op Community and to that end, Tom Haugsby, Director of Cooperative
>Education, has agreed to visit Seattle and layout the framework.  
>
>Student Recruitment was another target area we wanted to be more involved
>in; Angela Jones-Glukhov, Associate Director of Admissions & Financial
>Aid, will share the podium with Tom to address student recruitment in the
>greater Seattle area to build Antioch College.
>
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Risa Grimes
Director of Alumni Relations
Antioch College
795 Livermore Street
Yellow Springs, OH  45387
1-800-411-6780
Phone:  937-769-1206
Cell:  937-409-3210
email:  rgrimes at antioch-college.edu