[Alumni-chat] Antioch law school and thoughts on Al Guskin

[Laura Fathauer]

--- Matthew.Levitt at park.edu wrote:


> •	The discussion surrounding the law school in Yellow Springs
> was
> framed in the context of “either the Law School closes or
> Antioch
> College closes.”  I recall that Al Guskin repeatedly used the
> metaphor
> of we are cutting off the limb to save the tree.  •	Although
> it was not
> discussed at the time, it seems to me that this was the last
> of the
> closures of satellite institutions that were a financial drain
> on the
> college.  \
> 
> As a final thought, I have to add my two cents about Al
> Guskin.  I know
> that he has generally been vilified here, but in the last half
> of the
> 80s, he did a lot to save Antioch.  A few of his significant
> accomplishments include:
> •	Significantly increasing faculty pay
> •	Raising a lot of money
> •	Increasing enrollment
> •	Vastly improving the physical plant.  I could go on at
> length with
> horror stories of the physical plant when I entered in 1985. 
> South
> Hall was boarded up, Corry (now Spelt) was structurally
> unsound, what
> we called Zebra house – I guess Pennell house now - was
> boarded up,
> Conner house was about to collapse, etc. •	Moving the
> University
> offices from Manhattan to Yellow Springs.
> •	In both words and actions, making Antioch College the center
> of the
> College (I understand that he reversed course on this and the
> issue in
> the previous bullet in the 90s, but he was all about Antioch
> College as
> the focal point in the mid and late ‘80s.)
> •	Increasing commitment on the quality of academics,
> particularly
> supporting the library as a top priority.
> •	Remaining personally accessible to the Antioch community. 
> One could
> (and I did) walk into his office or stop him on campus and
> discuss
> whatever you wanteto with him.
> 
> I understand that much of this changed in the ‘90s, but in the
> ‘80s, he
> was leading Antioch in the right direction.
> 
> -Matthew Levitt-
> 
> 
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