[Alumni-chat] Antioch future vision

[J. Greg Williams]

>  When you can't attract  sufficient
> students to support core Faculty and programs, yes, you have   
> failed.  No way to
> dress that up.

Your premise that the college could not attract sufficient students is  
what I disagree with.  There seems to be a vocal group who believe  
that the College has failed and needs to re-invent itself from  
scratch.  180 degrees of brand new novelty to attract what it couldn't  
before.

I believe that constant cutting of the pieces that made Antioch  
successful is what has led us to this point.  The fact that admissions  
was again rebounding after the disastrous  mandated curriculum change  
despite the years of under budgeting as well as serious cuts to  
services proves that there are always people looking for the Antioch  
model.

I am not opposed to looking at new ideas but I am opposed to throwing  
out or denigrating what Antioch is today as a reaction to the position  
the college has been forced into.  Nurture it and it will grow.   
Continue to cut services and it will whither and die.  It's pretty  
self evident to me and I wish it was to those the College was  
entrusted as well.  Now we move forward and rebuild what was cut  
(again).

The College Lives!  :)