Antioch closing: Students stunned, faculty to lose jobs

[InkAddict]

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/02/22/ddn022208antiochweb.html

After two days of meetings in Los Angeles, Antioch University trustees said Fri., Feb. 22 they reaffirmed their original June 2007 decision to close the college for a year after negotiations failed with the Antioch College Continuation Corporation, or ACCC, which wanted to take over the school and create its own board of trustees.

Many Antioch College students and faculty who gathered in McGregor Hall on campus Friday were stunned and angry at the news that trustees decided to close the school in June as originally planned...

[Kolesar]

1. We are losing a wellspring of progressive thought at Antioch and Yellow Springs

They had a great public radio station, for one. I live quite far from there, but gathered that their faculty were leaders in issues like social justice and environmentalism.