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One correction…Antioch College, is on its way back. It has actually closed 4 or 5 times in its 156 years, only to use those times as points for reflection and renewal. The school is slated to take a new incoming class in 2011. The new business model and vision is unique and compelling to address many of the challenges the author mentioned in this article.
There are more hurdles for the school to overcome in order swing the doors wide open, but if history is any guide, then there is much ahead for this important institution.
They have hired core faculty, staff, and have secured the historic campus (http://antiochcollege.org/). There has been a tremendous groundswell of supporters to make this happen. Only a reminder of how vital it is to fight for those things worthwhile in the world.
Good article, but please correct the misleading photograph and outdated info on Antioch College. Thanks to the commitment, hard work, and donations of Antioch alumni around the country, we were able to resist the trend against liberal arts education. Antioch is coming back!
What makes Antioch worth fighting for is its unique emphasis on experiential learning. While on campus students assume real leadership positions. They are responsible for creating programs, and operating budgets. Through Antioch’s co-op program, students fan out across the country working real jobs.
As an undergrad, I did research at the Library of Congress in DC, community organizing in San Francisco, trained volunteers at a community radio station in Tampa, and spent a year in Mexico. No other college could have prepared me as well for my career as a foreign correspondent.
In these times of cut-backs to education, job training, diversity and critical thinking, Antioch’s holistic model is even more relevant. Everyone is welcome to get involved and donate: http://antiochcollege.org
Posted by sandina robbins on Jan 10, 2010 at 11:10 AM
Antioch College is not out of business. Last year the alumni bought the college from the umbrella university. This year the college is being restored and the first incoming class is expected in 2011. Liberal arts education is in trouble, and that makes the story of Antioch
Posted by Marianne Connolly on Jan 10, 2010 at 11:57 AM
The Constitution of the United States of America is liberal. The Bill of Rights, the First ten Amendments to the constitution, is liberal. Freedom of speech and of religion (First Amendment) is liberal. The right to keep and bear arms (Second Amendment) is liberal. Liberal Arts in the academy is (or was) liberal.
So, who are all these people who try to impose speech codes, who try to restrict religious expression by Christians, and who try to restrict gun ownership? Not liberals, surely. Say it ain’t so, Joe.
Liberal Arts departments and faculties are deeply embedded with proponents of an alien and hostile culture that reject liberal values, but who call themselves “Liberals”, among other less savory things.
American radicals and socialists began calling themselves “liberals”. - Friedrich A. Hayek, 1960.
But a “shrinking enrollment and a budget crisis” are signature characteristics of “radical and socialist ” states and their institutions. The Soviet Union collapsed amidst a declining population and a budget crisis.
The big problem of America now is the economic crisis, as characterized by a national debt approaching $12 trillion. LBJ’s socialist War on Poverty contributed $6.6 trillion to the national debt, and the socialist unaffordable housing program contributed another $1 trillion. If the radicals and socialists in the Democratic Party would return the $7.6 trillion of the taxpayers money that they wasted, corruptly, the economic crisis would disappear. Instead, Obama and crew are adding to the national debt in $100 billion increments, about $1.5 trillion just in the last year. So the liberal arts colleges’ budget situations are not likely to improve any time soon, along with the rest of us.
In times of economc crisis, it is quite expected that people would seek education that helps their economic situation. But who will help the poor Marxist and critical studies and Gramscian professors? Nobody, I hope. They do not belong in a liberal society such as ours anyway.
Posted by scorp on Jan 15, 2010 at 3:52 PM
Nice try belittling the Democrats’ record, Scorp.
Before WWII, before the GI bill basically made a college education affordable for a vast swath of Americans…college was a place for the elites and the erudite who wanted to study basically Judeo-Christian civilization (think about it, before WWII the world seemed much smaller and so did academic pursuits). After WWII, as college became a destination for most upper middle class Americans it changed to this emphasis on getting a job…why? B/c most Americans need a job to survive! And, no surprise, they don’t care about the liberal arts tradition. W/ the American cultural emphasis that every high school student is “special” there seems to be a pressure on most students to go to college when a lot would be better off in trade school. College is not a right.
Posted by americon on May 1, 2010 at 11:38 AM
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One correction…Antioch College, is on its way back. It has actually closed 4 or 5 times in its 156 years, only to use those times as points for reflection and renewal. The school is slated to take a new incoming class in 2011. The new business model and vision is unique and compelling to address many of the challenges the author mentioned in this article.
There are more hurdles for the school to overcome in order swing the doors wide open, but if history is any guide, then there is much ahead for this important institution.
They have hired core faculty, staff, and have secured the historic campus (http://antiochcollege.org/). There has been a tremendous groundswell of supporters to make this happen. Only a reminder of how vital it is to fight for those things worthwhile in the world.
Good article, but please correct the misleading photograph and outdated info on Antioch College. Thanks to the commitment, hard work, and donations of Antioch alumni around the country, we were able to resist the trend against liberal arts education. Antioch is coming back!
What makes Antioch worth fighting for is its unique emphasis on experiential learning. While on campus students assume real leadership positions. They are responsible for creating programs, and operating budgets. Through Antioch’s co-op program, students fan out across the country working real jobs.
As an undergrad, I did research at the Library of Congress in DC, community organizing in San Francisco, trained volunteers at a community radio station in Tampa, and spent a year in Mexico. No other college could have prepared me as well for my career as a foreign correspondent.
In these times of cut-backs to education, job training, diversity and critical thinking, Antioch’s holistic model is even more relevant. Everyone is welcome to get involved and donate: http://antiochcollege.org
Antioch College is not out of business. Last year the alumni bought the college from the umbrella university. This year the college is being restored and the first incoming class is expected in 2011. Liberal arts education is in trouble, and that makes the story of Antioch
The Constitution of the United States of America is liberal. The Bill of Rights, the First ten Amendments to the constitution, is liberal. Freedom of speech and of religion (First Amendment) is liberal. The right to keep and bear arms (Second Amendment) is liberal. Liberal Arts in the academy is (or was) liberal.
So, who are all these people who try to impose speech codes, who try to restrict religious expression by Christians, and who try to restrict gun ownership? Not liberals, surely. Say it ain’t so, Joe.
Liberal Arts departments and faculties are deeply embedded with proponents of an alien and hostile culture that reject liberal values, but who call themselves “Liberals”, among other less savory things.
But a “shrinking enrollment and a budget crisis” are signature characteristics of “radical and socialist ” states and their institutions. The Soviet Union collapsed amidst a declining population and a budget crisis.
The big problem of America now is the economic crisis, as characterized by a national debt approaching $12 trillion. LBJ’s socialist War on Poverty contributed $6.6 trillion to the national debt, and the socialist unaffordable housing program contributed another $1 trillion. If the radicals and socialists in the Democratic Party would return the $7.6 trillion of the taxpayers money that they wasted, corruptly, the economic crisis would disappear. Instead, Obama and crew are adding to the national debt in $100 billion increments, about $1.5 trillion just in the last year. So the liberal arts colleges’ budget situations are not likely to improve any time soon, along with the rest of us.
In times of economc crisis, it is quite expected that people would seek education that helps their economic situation. But who will help the poor Marxist and critical studies and Gramscian professors? Nobody, I hope. They do not belong in a liberal society such as ours anyway.
Nice try belittling the Democrats’ record, Scorp.
Before WWII, before the GI bill basically made a college education affordable for a vast swath of Americans…college was a place for the elites and the erudite who wanted to study basically Judeo-Christian civilization (think about it, before WWII the world seemed much smaller and so did academic pursuits). After WWII, as college became a destination for most upper middle class Americans it changed to this emphasis on getting a job…why? B/c most Americans need a job to survive! And, no surprise, they don’t care about the liberal arts tradition. W/ the American cultural emphasis that every high school student is “special” there seems to be a pressure on most students to go to college when a lot would be better off in trade school. College is not a right.
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