Mar 17 2008
AAUP Letter to Chancellor Murdoch - March 14, 2008
March 14, 2008
Dr. Tullisse A. Murdock
Chancellor
Antioch University
150 E. South College Street
Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387
Mr. Arthur J. Zucker
Chair, Board of Trustees
Antioch University
2012 Prescott Pl
Raleigh, North Carolina 27615
Dr. Andrzej Bloch
Chief Operations Officer/Chief Academic Officer
Antioch College
795 Livermore Street
Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387
Dear Chancellor Murdock, Chair Zucker, and Dr. Bloch:
In our letters to you of August 7 and September 19, we set forth our concerns arising from faculty complaints that the manner in which Antioch University had decided to declare financial exigency and determined to lay-off tenured faculty was inconsistent with widely accepted AAUP standards. Your decision not to respond substantively to our queries has heightened our concerns.
In our last letter of March 4, we urged the Antioch University trustees “to keep working with the ACCC [Antioch College Continuation Corporation] to reach an agreement that will allow the college to continue its operations uninterrupted.” We understand that the ACCC has since submitted to the trustees a draft letter of intent for its immediate consideration. We understand further that the university’s board of trustees is scheduled to meet this coming week to review the proposal and to formulate its response. We urge the trustees to give the utmost serious attention to the ACCC proposal with a view to reaching a decision that will permit the college to remain in operation beyond June 30.
We will be watching further developments closely, and hope to learn that an agreement has been reached that will ensure the college’s continuing and uninterrupted existence. Absent such an agreement, we shall determine our further course of action consistent with our established policies.
Sincerely,
Anita Levy, Ph.D.
Associate Secretary
cc: Professor Tom Arysman, Faculty Senate Steering Committee
Professor Jill Becker, Faculty Senate Steering Committee
Professor Susan Eklund-Leen, Faculty Senate Steering Committee
Professor Pat Mische, Faculty Senate Steering Committee,
Professor Paul Davis, President, Ohio Conference AAUP
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