[Alumni-chat] Antioch Pres. is CEO of University if Chancellor Posit

[alanbenard (alanbenard at pobox.com)]

>Alan Guskin started something called "The Project on
>the Future of Higher Eduction." Michael Bassis and
>Gene Rice were members. He and his co-founder authored
>an article, published Spring 2003; hmm.. right when
>the Renewal commission is announced, it seems. This
>article is viewable on FindArticles, and is titled
>"Teaching and learning in a climate of restricted
>resources."
Okay, so let's cut the crap about toxic students destroying Antioch. 

>From 1965 and Dixon's "network"...

To 1973 and Dixon's over-reliance on tenuous government grants to unrealistically inflate the campus population...

To 1994 and Guskin's Chancellorship and quasi-"federal" structure...

To 2003 and Guskin's Renewal concept, apparently mangled in translation by the ULC/BoT...or was it?

To 2007 and this dog's breakfast restructuring/gutting Guskin's sock-puppet Murdock has foisted with the collusion of Zucker's Posse....

The tale of Antioch College's failure is not one of toxic students and a roiling community. It is one of elite, detached leaders' hubris as they used the University as a laboratory for their experiments in higher-education management. 

Couldn't they have just run a liberal-arts college? That's all that was required of them. 

Alan Benard