[Alumni-chat] Selling Antioch!

[ktj71 at juno.com]

Thanks Mark, for describing what made A.C. the phenomenal success that it WAS -- and is no longer.  I don’t see social entrepreneurship as playing any particular role -- in fact, I’d boil it down to one word:  Co-op!  That alone made Antioch super-competitive (w/ long waiting lists) from the ‘20s into the’70s.  Its PR and campus-life got muddled in the latter ‘60s (adult units, etc), but the YSO co-op plan was SO good that students kept flocking to it -- until the strikes.  (You got out just in time!)  

       As for trustees throwing good money after bad, how could they do anything else, given the failed Plan that they themselves commissioned in 6/03 and adopted in 6/04 -- complete with its estimated costs af $88 million to implement, ALL to be paid (per the original Plan) by the college & its “philanthropic investors.”      Katy Jako ‘54