[Alumni-chat] What will the BOT do?

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In a message dated 9/3/2007 12:54:41 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
bporter at comcast.net writes:

The  biggest difficulty for me as an 
employer was the discontinuity. In three  months I could just about get 
someone to the level of making a real  contribution, then another student 
would come in. I wanted to expand the  co-op program but wasn't sure how to 
deal with this difficulty. I tried to  talk to the co-op office at the time, 
but they were basically  non-responsive. I have always felt that if we could 
have worked together a  good program could have been developed.

Beverly Fearn Porter  '58



Barry Hollister used to contend that the best schedule Antioch ever had was  
the "Old (or sometimes Old Old) plan.  There were four sessions, the first  
two just 8 weeks long, and the second two 16 weeks long, thus all students on  
co-op returned to their job after a period on campus.  It also was the true  
meaning of Co-op -- two students cooperating to hold down and service one  job.  
One disadvantage, some freshmen went on co-op before they begin their  first 
period of study.  In this plan, which ended in 55 or 56, most classes  were 
split, one took the first third of a course, went on co-op, and  then returned 
to finish the class.  An advantage, students in some fields  could "read ahead" 
in a course while on co-op.  In particular those in  History and Literature 
favored the Old Old Plan.  Barry Hollister also  thought most co-op employers 
did too, as they had their student employees for  almost six months.  This was 
also the most economical plan for the college  -- it used the campus resources 
fully for most of the year, with students paying  tuition and fees to sustain 
personnel and buildings, etc., but about 2/5ths of  the student body was, at 
any one time, not on campus, and not using campus  facilities.  In essence 
that meant 2/5ths more income than the college had  facilities to service.  It is 
one of the key reasons the college grew  gradually and successfully in the 
40's and 50's, but maintained a budget that  was in the black, and produced 
small reserves.  



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