[Alumni-chat] does toni speak truth?

[t Sanford]

Sorry Jim, but why would we have spent the last 9 months doing our day jobs and working on this if we did not believe that the college was viable. The key, as reading any of the last few months of posts will indicate, is that residential liberal arts colleges can not survive on tuition alone and in fact almost none do. The overhead is simply too great and thus the need for an endowment, which is phase II of save the college. The other campuses have much lower overhead (no tenure no unions few buildings etc) so they can either suspiciously break even or less suspiciously be in the black or the red.
 
Toni's points are based on a total lack of understanding of undergraduate residential revenue models. She is a non-residential education "expert". Nothing that they have proposed contains more than a kernal of truth. Is it expensive yes, does it need a big endowment to be less tuition dependent yes, does every other college like it need the same kind of support? Yes.

 

> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 16:44:55 -0400> From: jimjaf at gmail.com> To: alumni-chat at w3.antioch.edu> Subject: [Alumni-chat] does toni speak truth?> > are colleges like ours fundable in today's environment? anyone> started a comparable place successfully of late? are there more or> fewer than there were a few decades ago?> _______________________________________________> Alumni-chat mailing list> Alumni-chat at w3.antioch.edu> http://w3.antioch.edu/mailman/listinfo/alumni-chat> Visit http://www.Antioch-College.edu today!
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