[Alumni-chat] Alumni-chat Digest, Vol 6, Issue 73

[Michael Casselli (dodioflo at mindspring.com)]

No we haven't. Of course they are allowing, they still hold the hand. And what if we do have to do the fund-raising? We have been given access to the development office and staff. One thing that I do wonder about is if they use this office, who has control of the funds raised? I am also very reluctant to celebrate just yet, there are 2 months until the next BoT meeting and there is a lot to be done, a viable business plan that now is a combined effort between the alumni board and the faculty, some undisclosed amount of money that needs to be raised, and information access that has to be immediate. All of this could be a simple smoke screen on their part, but I will work on whatever I can until the end of October in order to see if my worst fears are confirmed or my actions rewarded. I can't say for sure if this is a tactic for stalling or not, so I am going on to see what happens, Hell, it is a small period of my life compared with other things and I feel as if my small effort has
at least brought into fruition a larger and more activated community.
Let's see what happens.
















>And there's the rub.  Although we're all encouraged in some ways by what
>happened this past weekend, are we so happy to have hope that we've kinda
>caved in on the college becoming independent?  The BoT is "allowing" the
>alumni to continue to plan?  That's kind of the flavor I get from it.
>
>It seems to me they've kind of turned over their responsibility of
>fund-raising to the alumni.  They're saying, ok, if you want to go ahead an
>raise 100 million, then we can leave the college open.
>
>But will anything in the structure change.
>
>Although I suppose if we come up with 100 million, we've got a little more
>power.
>
>>From: alumni-chat-request at w3.antioch.edu
>>Reply-To: alumni-chat at w3.antioch.edu
>>Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:56:58 -0400 (EDT)
>>To: alumni-chat at w3.antioch.edu
>>Subject: Alumni-chat Digest, Vol 6, Issue 73
>>
>>Anticipating the question: What does the Alumni Board have that the BoT and
>>ULC didn't have? The goodwill and cooperation of many, many alumni who will
>>only donate if the college has a greater level of autonomy from the
>>university.