Editing Antioch University (section)

===21st century===
In 2007, the Antioch University board of trustees announced that they would suspend operations of Antioch College the following year and that they intended to re-open the college in four years.<ref name="nbc_antioch_close" /> It was their belief that four years would give the university the necessary time to develop and execute a plan for rebuilding Antioch College in a manner that would both honor its legacy and secure its future.

There was considerable controversy among members of the Antioch College alumni group about the decision to suspend operations at the college. Subsequently, a group of Antioch College alumni, headed by the Antioch College Alumni Board, expressed interest in purchasing the college from the university and re-opening the college as an independent institution. The alumni group formed the Antioch College Continuation Corporation as the vehicle for negotiating and owning the college. After two years of negotiations, the parties agreed to terms of an asset purchase agreement which was signed at a closing ceremony on September 4, 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/reopening-antioch-college-would-set-historic-precedent-1074650.html |title=Reopening Antioch College would set historic precedent |website=www.daytondailynews.com |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628202722/http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/reopening-antioch-college-would-set-historic-precedent-1074650.html |archive-date=28 June 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In the transaction, Antioch College Continuation Corporation purchased from the university the college campus in Yellow Springs, Ohio, along with an exclusive license to use the university's registered trade name "Antioch College". However, Antioch University continues to own the trade name and any other use of the word "Antioch" within higher education.<ref name="uspto_4810:duy250.2.1" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4810:duy250.3.14|title=TESS -- Error|website=tmsearch.uspto.gov|access-date=2019-09-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200117233206/http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc|archive-date=2020-01-17|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2008, due to financial exigency, Antioch University closed the Antioch College campus in Yellow Springs.<ref name="nbc_antioch_close">{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna19196288|title=Antioch College to close because of lack of funds|date=June 13, 2007|website=msnbc.com|access-date=September 10, 2019|archive-date=October 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191028052514/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/19196288/ns/us_news-education/t/antioch-college-close-because-lack-funds/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2009, a number of Antioch College alumni formed a new Ohio corporation, Antioch College Continuation Corporation,<ref>[https://bizimage.sos.state.oh.us/api/image/pdf/200734402586]{{dead link|date=October 2019}}</ref> which purchased from the university the college campus along with an exclusive license to use the university's registered trade name "Antioch College".<ref name="uspto_4810:duy250.2.1">{{cite web|url=http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4810:duy250.2.1|title=TESS -- Error|website=tmsearch.uspto.gov|access-date=2019-09-10|archive-date=2022-07-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707214754/https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4810:duy250.2.1|url-status=live}}</ref> The new independent Antioch College opened in 2011. Since then, Antioch University and Antioch College have operated as wholly separate, non-affiliated institutions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ysnews.com/news/2009/09/antioch-college-alive-and-independent-again|title=Antioch College alive and independent again|author=Diane Chiddister|date=10 September 2009|access-date=16 June 2010|archive-date=16 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116194729/https://ysnews.com/news/2009/09/antioch-college-alive-and-independent-again|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2010, the college was [[List of colleges and universities sanctioned by the American Association of University Professors|sanctioned]] by the [[American Association of University Professors]] "for infringement of governance standards".<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 21, 2006 |title=Sanctioned Institutions |url=https://www.aaup.org/our-work/shared-governance/sanctioned-institutions |access-date=November 1, 2024 |website=AAUP }}</ref>

From its inception, racial and gender equality, independent study, and independent thinking were integral parts of Antioch College. Six students were accepted for the first quarter: four men and two women who came to share the same college classrooms for the first time in the U.S. The notion of [[gender equality]] extended also to the faculty. Antioch College was the first U.S. college to designate a woman as full professor,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-sep-02-na-hometown-antioch2-story.html|title=Antioch College alumni plan to save their school|author=P.J. Huffstutter|work=Los Angeles Times|date=September 2, 2009|access-date=August 6, 2010|archive-date=October 4, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101004175058/http://articles.latimes.com/2009/sep/02/nation/na-hometown-antioch2|url-status=live}}</ref> and the original faculty included seven men and two women. In 1863, the college instituted the policy that no applicant was to be rejected on the basis of race.