[Alumni-chat] RE: [Chapters] Chapters Newsletter No. 10

[Robin Heise]

Unfortunately, at this time, any attempt to recruit
new students would be unethical (based on national
admissions standards) and could jeopardize an approval
from the Ohio Board of Regents.  Any new applicants at
this point, would be have to be contacted to let them
know we can not currently accept new applications. 
Please keep in mind that we are not currently staffed
to handle an influx of applications....I know that
this will change upon approval from the Ohio Board of
Regents.  Without this approval, we have nothing. 

As soon as we have news from the Ohio Board of
Regents, we will let everyone know when recruiting can
begin.  I know that we're all anxious to move forward,
but please let's be patient in order to ensure our
future success.

Robin Heise
Director of Financial Aid

--- L Powsner <lrpjak at verizon.net> wrote:

> The college is not allowed to recruit new students,
> but they will accept
> "opportunistic" students, right? We (alumni) are not
> the college, so can't
> we informally (without the college's permission)
> encourage high school
> students to apply? I don't see how Antioch is going
> to get it's head above
> water without an incoming freshman class.
> 
> Laurie '83
> lrpjak at verizon.net
> 
> 3) Help find new students for Antioch  -- but NOT
> YET, not until  
> authorized to do this!
> 
> But we have to be very careful.  Right now we can
> talk with and  
> encourage potential transfers.  But while the
> faculty is ready and  
> eager to admit also a whole new Freshman class,  for
> the minute we  
> cannot reach out to prospective Freshman and try to
> recruit them  We  
> can certainly answer any questions that come our way
> about Antioch.   
> But we cannot reach out to High Schools, we cannot
> engage in active  
> enrollment right now - until we are given the green
> light that the  
> Accrediting Organizations are giving Antioch the
> approval to continue  
> granting degrees beyond December 2008.  I am sure we
> will get that,  
> and we must be preparing ourselves NOW to move fast
> when so  
> authorized.   But for now, we must wait for
> information from, and  
> authorization from, our Director of Alumni
> Relations, Aimiee  
> Maruyama.  Very soon Aimee will start sending out
> these Newsletters  
> to Chapter leaders (see below) and she will inform
> us of what we can  
> and cannot do, when.  For now, it is Okay to talk
> with prospies, but  
> not to recruit them.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: chapters-bounces at antiochians.org
> [mailto:chapters-bounces at antiochians.org] On Behalf
> Of Michael Brower
> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 12:59 AM
> To: Chapters
> 
> Antioch Alumni Chapters Newsletter No. 10
> 
> Today, November 3, 2007 is a truly historic day. 
> Today the Antioch  
> University Board of Trustees announced at 2 PM at an
> Antioch  
> Community Meeting its decision to reverse the June
> decision to  
> suspend the operations of Antioch College.  Instead,
> they have stated  
> that the College will remain open after July 1,
> 2008, and not close  
> or suspend. The declaration of Financial Exigency,
> however, will  
> remain in effect for some time longer, until the
> conditions are in  
> place to remove it.
> 
> The two key Documents, the "Resolution," and the
> "Agreement in  
> Principle," both dated November 2, have been emailed
> to all Alums  
> with known emails as Antioch Update VIII.  If you
> didn't get that,  
> or lost it, or want to become accustomed to getting
> info up-to-date,  
> go to our Alumni Board website, antiochians.org, and
> read there these  
> and other documents and statements.  See, for
> example the statement  
> posted there by Alumni Chair Nancy Crow. And check
> there every day or  
> two.  Lots of new news goes up there.
> 
> We have gained our two main objectives - or a least
> large parts of  
> them -- with the Board of Trustees.  Keeping Antioch
> open, and an  
> Agreement in Principle to establish a separate Board
> of Trustees for  
> Antioch College (and for all of the other campuses
> too).
> 
> These agreements are far from complete.  In fact
> they are only  
> beginnings, estalishing a path forward and
> processes.  When you read  
> them, you wil find, like most Alums do, that there
> are parts that are  
> not completely satisfying.  We still have a long way
> to go, a lot of  
> work to do, a lot of funds to raise.  But we are now
> working  
> cooperatively with the Trustees, we have earned a
> solid foundation of  
> respect from them, we have made enormous progress
> already, and we are  
> on a path forward to regenerate Antioch College to
> again become a  
> world-class path-breaking College to serve humanity
> another century  
> or two or more.
> 
> Now on to some of the urgent work we Alumni need to
> do.  In my brief  
> Interim Newsletter No. 9 I listed 5 kinds of
> important activites  
> Chapters need to undertake.
> 
> 1) Keep their own membership informed and involved
> and attract new  
> members.
> 2) Help us find Alums to organize new Chapters in
> another 2-3-4 dozen  
> cities.
> 3) Help find new students for Antioch  -- but NOT
> YET, not until  
> authorized to do this!
> 4) Continue Helping Raise significant donations and
> pledges for  
> Antioch College.
> 5)  Find Co-op jobs and support Co-op students in
> our communities -  
> as authorized.
> 
> In Newsletter No. 9 I addresed Item 1 above and sent
> you as an ideas  
> source a long list of Boston events in recent years.
>  Later I sent an  
> Addendum with an offer by Richard Couto to travel to
> Chapter meetings  
> and talk about his book Courses in Courage which is
> about Antiochians  
> (faculty and students) from 50 years ago.   If any
> of you did not get  
> either of these documets, just let me know and I
> will send them again  
> to you alone.
> 
> Now it is urgent for Chapters to work fast on all 5
> of these items,  
> especially the first four - but with an important
> proviso in No. 3  
> about new Freshmen.   Let me address this list, one
> by one, although  
> they are indeed inter-related and mutually
> supportive.
> 
> 1) Keep your own membership informed and involved
> and attract new  
> members.
> 
> This is essential.  Now is the time for your
> leadership or planning  
> team to meet and plan and then hold soon a full
> membership meeting  
> before Thanksgiving, or no later than the first week
> of December.  We  
> need to keep people informed, to answer their
> questions, to recruit  
> additional members, to keep our spirits up, and to
> roll into further  
> actions.  AND to plan for several meetings of our
> Chapter in 2009.   
> After all, thie College is going to stay open!  We
> need to stay in  
> high gear and do all we can to make that permanent,
> to create the  
> support and requirementes to enable removal of
> "financial  
> exigency" and to really let the faculty know we are
> fully supporting  
> them.  To attract new members, how about using a
> telephone tree?   
> Each of three of you call 3-4 others, and if there
> are enough names  
> on your lists,  each of those call another 3-4, etc.
> etc.  Or 2 call  
> 20 each?
> 
> To do this, get an updated list of Names and
> addresses and phone  
> numers from our Alumni Director, Aimee Maruyama. She
> can give these  
> to you, after you sign a Confidentiality Agreement,
> by 
=== message truncated ===


__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com