In this smart-as-a-shoulder-pad article, which contains perhaps the most ridiculous attempt at euphemism I’ve ever seen (“Such references have been . . . open to misconception at best”), University chancellor Toni Murdock makes happy about a tenure-free faculty.
The message is the same as the one signaled by the College’s closing–a message so obvious even the various lipids clotting the Antioch faculty bloodstream got it: “No one will get tenure at Antioch Rolling Meadows Estates College.”
There’s nothing surprising about that information, but it is stunning that the chancellor’s first public statement after the reunion and all the resulting press coverage is just a defense of the University and its policy of not granting tenure–rather than, say, an open letter addressing alumni grievances.
Things like that make me doubt it’ll be possible to save the College. These people really don’t give a shit about anyone they don’t have dinner with.
