Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio
announced yesterday that they are closing due to low endowment funds and dwindling enrollment. They say they intend to reopen the college in 2012.
I never attended Antioch, but I lived in Yellow Springs for 4 years while I was in graduate school at Wright State University. Yellow Springs has a very special place in my heart. I am very saddened at this news. I wonder how the town will fare. Yellow Springs is a small town, and Antioch is an important presence there. It feels like the end of an era.