Antioch College to Close; Board Hopes to Reopen in 2012

By PAUL FAIN

Antioch College, a 154-year-old liberal-arts institution in Ohio known for activist policies, will close next year because of budget deficits and dwindling enrollment, college officials said on Tuesday.

The college is the residential undergraduate component of Antioch University, whose Board of Trustees voted over the weekend to shutter the campus under a plan that calls for fixing its finances and reopening it in 2012. Antioch University also has five nonresidential campuses around the country, all of which are to remain open.