[Alumni-chat] Digest

[E. Daniel Ayres]

Now that there is a declared end to Antioch College, the alumnae are finally
beginning to wake up, but. ALL WE ARE DOING IS BITCHING AND ANALYZING THE
PAST AND CASTIGATING EACH OTHERS' IDEAS.   I'm more than willing to wade
through the chaff looking for a few kernels of wisdom which might give some
glimmer of hope for the future, but . from now on I need one message a day.
I have not yet figured out how to get this out of the software which was
selected to host this list, but when I do, I'll post instructions to the
list under the same heading.

 

Please, I'm with the guy who piped up that he would pledge 1k a year more.  

 

There are a lot of us who could have / should have pledged funds to support
Antioch but chose not to because of the constant and confusing back and
forth, much of which was negative.   Without clear direction, Antioch
College floundered and has apparently been somewhat unfeelingly killed off.
I did the same thing to a deer that jumped in front of my car when I was
driving too fast, but I felt it was better than the long suffering,
lingering death, which nature probably would have given the animal if I had
not killed it.  It is clear to me that the college was suffering.   

 

I personally trace Antioch College's loss of direction back to the expansive
Dixon days when grant money was lined up to create what became the Antioch
University campuses and then when the funding dried up, executive self
preservation instincts set in to consolidate power and control of funds in
ways which consistently did not unreservedly support and focus on
residential liberal arts college programs.   Some of us called those moves
into question back then, but were ignored.  So be it, what do we do now, if
anything?  I personally like the social entrepreneurship concept, and could
envision a Yellow Springs, community based enterprise which proposed a
governance process and a learning model which will be sustainable and leased
the facilities until such time as fundraising for that enterprise and/or
income from it, was sufficient to allow purchase of the facilities.   It
seems to me that the name "Antioch College Community" might be its' DBA.  

 

E. Daniel Ayres, AKA ZundapMan

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