The Chronicle of Higher Education (the Chronicle does not provide a permalink to the full article to non-subscribers, so sorry for the abbreviated link) reports that Antioch College, the undergraduate portion of the larger Antioch University, will close next year as the Board rethinks and plans for a new state-of-the-art campus to open in 2012.

While any institution that has been around for 154 years and has contributed their share of progressive policies to higher education and society (Horace Mann was the first president, and graduates include Coretta Scott King, Stephen Jay Gould, Rod Serling, Robert Krinsky (my former Chairman at The Segal Company), Clifford Geertz, Mary Belenky, and Warren Bennis) will be missed, perhaps this strategic rethinking of their work will ultimately increase their value and contribution. 

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