If you try sometimes, you find...

...you get what you need.

The news from Antioch College today is stellar. According to the alumni website, the University Board did a complete 180 and offered a plan that would allow those who believe in the College's mission to keep the College up and running as a 4-year residential college for kids who want to raise a little hell. Co-op, classroom, and community are the pillars of an Antioch education, none of which would have been represented in the previously recent proposal that would essentially put the College on par with such academic bastions as the University of Phoenix.

We are cautiously celebrating. While the Board seems to be on board, the University Administration has been stubborn, deceptive, and calculating in their efforts to destroy everything the College and its alumni stand for. We must hope that this is not another diversionary tactic for the simple purpose of derailing the faculty lawsuit (and keeping the alums from barricading themselves on campus after reunion). But I'm going to be optimistic, put on my party hat, and sing, "The phoenix is risen!"