[Alumni-chat] Recent Visit to YS

[Laura Fathauer]

--- "toyboy (andy at svcable.net)"
<alumni-chat_forum at antiochians.org> wrote:

> To the outside world the schizm between the AU and
> the AC is incredibly confusing. It is to some of us
> on the inside as well.


Leadership? Mission? Vision?

The satellite campuses are largely regional campuses.
It is only the college that truly has a -national-
standing and recognition. (Would the average person
not in the state where the satellite campuses are at
even know those campuses existed?)

So, why then isn't the campus that has the national
standing the center of the (little-u) university?
Don't most of the the other 'multi-campus' systems
that the Chancellor is so fond of quoting have such a
setup? 

So, to entertain Deb's perspective of 'not getting
anywhere' by working apart, how about this thought
experiment-

Would the satellite campuses be agreeable to the
notion of returning the residential campus in Yellow
Springs to the position of preeminence within the
university, given that the College is responsible for
the traditions and the national reputation? Would they
be agreeable to re-establishing traditions of true
participatory democracy, along with supporting what is
felt by some to be the 'radical' nature of the
college?

And if such a setup were to happen, would the College
community be agreeable to the identity shift of
Antioch "College" as a separate identity in YS, and
simply have  the campus in Yellow Springs be in its
entirety 'Antioch University'? Not AU Yellow Springs,
with a chancellor removed from the undergraduate
institution, but simply Antioch University, with
faculty, staff and student democracy, and tenured
undergraduate and graduate faculty? With leadership
from the campus with the national reputation?

While its arguable that the satellite campuses may
carry the DNA of 'Antioch', I submit another
perspective to that- the regional campuses are largely
 'mules'; a hybrid of Antioch College and graduate
programs. As such, they're largely incapable of
extending beyond their locale (and even within them,
are starting to exhibit problems). While they may
continue to exist locally without the undergraduate
program, I doubt Antioch University without the
nationally-recognized campus will ever again compete
on a national picture. 

And as much as we try to change our parents, we can't.
When the satellite campuses (and the BoT) recognize
this, maybe then is moving forward as a single
institution possible.

-laura






       
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