AAUP Letter of Concern to Antioch University
Aug. 7 – The American Association of University Professors responds to request for advice and assistance by Antioch College Faculty.
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“We were deeply surprised and disappointed to learn that members of the faculty were not consulted prior to the board’s actions with regard either to the declaration of financial exigency or to the suspension of operations, and that, in fact, they were not informed of these actions until three days later at a campus meeting on June 12. Faculty members allege that the board’s lack of consultation is part of what they perceive as a pattern of disregard for the faculty’s legitimate role in institutional decision making for the past several years.”
“The announced suspension and potential reopening of the college in 2012 are highly unusual in our experience, matched perhaps only by events in Antioch’s own history. If the college does reopen, we hope and expect that it will do so with a tenure system intact, and with a sense of its continuing obligation to the current college faculty with regard to reinstatement. We also expect that the faculty will have a meaningful role in the governance of a reopened college.”