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Hot on the heels of the announced lifting of the suspension, NYC celebrated the opening of the Postcard Show - pictures are here!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/18177233@N05/sets/72157602924663846

It was a truly fun night full of great people and great art. Proposed collateral programming at the gallery during the show (Nov 3 - Dec 31) includes concerts and showings of the Antioch Adventures, I and II. Stay tuned for details.

If you’re not in the NYC area and would like to purchase art from the show, please contact the gallery via their website (linked at the above Flickr gallery).

The next NYC alumni chapter meeting has been scheduled.

Friday 9/28 at 7:00pm
– PLEASE BE PROMPT — it will be difficult to let anyone in past 7:30
Judson Memorial Church — downstairs meeting room
*** 239 Thompson Street ***
(btwn Washington Sq S and West 3rd)
Near Washington Square Park — www.judson.org
** elevator on site **

TRAINS:
A,C,E and B,D,F,V to W4
R,W to 8th St/NYU
6 to Astor Place

Day of Event Contact: Jeff Wood/Lynda White 917-864-2951

This may be our last chapter gathering before the October BOT meeting, and the Judson Church room can accommodate 100 people, so please plan on coming and bringing others with you.

We will definitely be

• discussing the upcoming “Greetings from Antioch College - The Postcard Show” event
• presenting updates on Visioning and Business Plan development, the Revival Fund, and Faculty lawsuit
• formulating a Chapter Resolution to be taken to the October BOT meeting
• brainstorming on moving forward

Please submit any additional agenda item requests in the comments below. A complete agenda will be posted soon.

New Jerseyochians Unite! You’re invited to second gathering of the NJ alumni chapter. Come meet fellow graduates and get the latest news about the College and the many serious efforts underway nationwide to prevent the closure.

Sunday, September 9th at 1:30 pm
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton

50 Cherry Hill Road

Princeton, NJ 08540

Directions: www.uuprinceton.org/aboutus/directions

Contacts:
Laurie Powsner, ‘83
Laurie [link to lrpjak]
609-577-1948

Carl Haag, ‘52

Carl [link to carhaag]

The NJ Alumni Chapter urges the Antioch Board of Trustees to meet with the representatives of the Antioch College Alumni Board and all appropriate stakeholders of faculty, staff, students and the village of Yellow Springs, to reconfigure the agenda for the August 25th open session meeting to make it more inclusive. The more inclusive the meeting, the greater the consensus, the better the results will be.

The NJ Alumni Chapter supports the Antioch College Alumni Association Agenda for the AU BOT meeting on 8-25-07 as approved by Alumni Board on its 8-2-07 conference call, with the following amendment to point 3 (amendment in italicized bold):  “Establish a self-governing, independent College Board of Trustees with members initially selected by the Alumni Board in collaboration with the College President and [all appropriate stakeholders of faculty, staff, students and the village of Yellow Springs].”

Dear Fellow Antioch College Supporters,

New Jersey alumni met on July 29 and decided upon the following statement and action plan, which we hope others will want to replicate:

The Antioch University Board of Trustees will be meeting on August 25 and its leaders still publicly insist they will not reverse their decision to suspend operations of the College in Yellow Springs.

Despite the Alumni Association’s success at raising $625,000 since June 28, we believe many more alumni are holding back on contributing to the College because of uncertainty about whether those donations will go to an institution that upholds the core principles of Antioch.

We believe the majority of alumni are outraged by the Board of Trustees’ failure to adhere to Antioch’s longstanding practice of community governance in reaching the decision to close the College or to be properly transparent about the financial accounting that informed that decision. In addition, we believe that the critical financial support of alumni will not be there in four years if Board of Trustees has suspended operation of Antioch College in the interim.

We resolve to encourage as many alumni as possible to pledge support to the College in the next three weeks on the condition, as stated in the pledge form available at antiochians.org/donate, that the Board of Trustees release control of Antioch to a new board specifically committed to the College in Yellow Springs and to an open and inclusive renewal process. In addition to pledging financial support, we believe it is important for alumni to pledge other forms
of assistance, such as recruiting new students, maintaining alumni connections, finding new co-op jobs, and the like We encourage alumni to include information about those support activities on the pledge.

We also resolve to try to increase donations over the next three weeks to the Antioch Faculty Legal Information Fund account at Yellow Springs Federal Credit Union, 217 Xenia Ave., Yellow Springs, OH 45387. Current faculty members—who have played a key role in keeping Antioch alive this long—deserve our backing in their efforts to fight
the closure and protect tenure and academic freedom.

Alumni voices should be heard loud and clear before the next Board of Trustees meeting: The trustees should release Antioch and give control of the College to a board that truly values its legacy of self-governance, innovation, a liberal arts curriculum and social justice. We will not support any future educational institution in Yellow Springs that does less.

Sincerely,

The New Jersey Antioch Alumni chapter