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Community Meeting at Reunion

There will be a community meeting at reunion, planned for Friday, June 18 at 7:30 p.m. Tentative location is the steps of Antioch Hall, location subject to change.
Former community manager Deborah “Amina” Warfield has volunteered to co-moderate the meeting.
Some preliminary agenda items for the meeting:
How can the rebuilding Antioch College continue and [...]

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Alumni Board Election Results

Congratulations to Mark Reynolds ‘80 on his election to the Alumni Board. When he’s seated next year Mark will join fellow Chicagoans Emily Kirby ‘52 and chapter organizer Jim Hobart ‘58.
Also elected were:
Laurence “Larry” Glasco
Chad Johnston
Tanya Mink
Karen Mulhauser
Allen Spalt
Paula Treichler
Don Wallace (re-elected)
Reunion and Work Project
Campus work project starts next Monday and reunion starts Friday. [...]

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Notes from Antioch College alumni meeting, Chicago 4/10/10

See video:
Part One
Part Two
Speakers: Matthew Derr, Lee Morgan, Beverly Rodgers, Aimee Maruyama, Julian Sharp
using arts & sciences
testing academic plan with high school students
Beverly:
a week to ten days in between each term
no summers off
flipped educational model upside down
begin forming relationships with faculty in first year 1:5 teacher ratio
lee: target to have tuition equal or below state [...]

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A New Design for Liberal Education

It’s a year and a half until the first entering class of the reopened Antioch College is scheduled to begin classes in fall 2011.
The Chicago Chapter of the Antioch College Alumni Association welcomes interim president Matthew Derr ’89, board chair Lee Morgan ’68, Morgan Fellow Beverly Rodgers, advancement director Risa Grimes, and volunteer [...]

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Antioch College Board Pro Tempore Meeting Notes 011610

Here are notes from the Board Meeting held January 16 in Chicago:
SUMMARY: The Board resolved to endorse the spirit of a refined concept paper for the college. This paper has not yet been made public pending editing, but details of it emerge from Board members’ comments, as detailed below.
See the original concept [...]

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Antioch College Board Pro Tempore Special Meeting and Reception 1/16/10

Meet the Antioch College Board Pro Tempore and see them lay the groundwork for the reopened college at a special meeting and reception on Saturday, January 16 at the O’Hare Hilton, at airport terminal 2.
The Board meets in open session from 8:30 a.m.-2:15 p.m. in Room 2049
The Board goes into closed session at [...]

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Notes, Video, Audio, Photos from Antioch Road Show Chicago

On Dec. 5, at Columbia College, about 45 Antioch College alumni (including Jeanne Kay, who happened to be in town on business for her law firm internship while studying at the Sorbonne) met with four representatives of the newly independent college:
Beverly Rodgers and Jean Gregorek, two of the five Morgan Scholars tasked with building the [...]

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Resources for 12/5 Antioch College Road Show

Seminar Syllabus
Liberal Arts Reading List

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Help chart the course for the future of Antioch College

Reunion 2009. Photo by Dennie Eagleson.
Beverly Rodgers (anthropology) and Jean Gregorek (literature) are two of the five Morgan Fellows who have been tasked with building the curriculum for the college to reopen in 2011 and oversee faculty hiring. (Both Beverly and Jean taught at Antioch College and the Nonstop Institute.)
They’re coming to Chicago [...]

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Chicago’s Independence Celebration 8/01/09

Matthew Derr '89, Maribeth Joy McManus '00, Abby Pike '00, Risa Grimes
Some 45 Antiochians and friends celebrated Antioch College’s independence and enjoyed the stunning skyline views and urban cacophony of Nic Ruley 02 and Brett King’s South Loop sky garden on Saturday, Aug. 1.
Guests chief transition officer Matthew Derr ‘89, College Revival Fund executive director [...]

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