THE RECORD VOLUME 64, ISSUE 6 AUGUST 20, 2014 Academic Progress Standards to Change by Elaine Bell ’16 SAP policy with other members of APRC. The language used to It’s the middle of summer distinguish different academic quarter. The sun is shining, the standings has been changed to cicadas are chirping, and students reflect the terminology used in are once again receiving their federal guidelines, according to midterm grades. While many Napoli. To be eligible for federal receive letters notifying them of aid for students “our satisfactory their placement on the dean’s list, academic progress policy must others receive academic alerts and meet federal guidelines,” he said. warning letters sent from the First “We have to use the terms that Watch Academic Intervention are used in the federal guidelines, Committee (FWAIC), a body that which [are] ‘academic warning’ monitors satisfactory academic and ‘academic alert.’” progress. The standards related to “It’s like an intervention alerts or warnings have also been team, but it’s really just to make changed, which can be decided at sure students are healthy,” said the school registrar’s discretion. Elecia Harvey, the student Previously academic alert was success advisor. “If your grades are sent out for a 2.0-2.39 GPA dropping, if you’re not going to and a warning was for a 2.4-2.7. class…there might be something “We’re now tagging anything else wrong. So we reach out to below 3.0 because 90 percent of students to help them figure out our students are above a 3.0,” said what to do next.” Napoli. Students with a GPA of Rosamond S. King, Katherine Schule ’17, and Richie Hauck ’17 in the Foundry Theater First Watch operates in 2.5-2.99 will now be placed on participate in performances of Call & Response July 19. Photo credit, Dennie Eagleson accordance with the Satisfactory academic warning, and those with ’71. Academic Progress (SAP) a GPA of 2.0-2.49 will be placed Policy, which was written by on academic alert. “Neither of the registrar and reviewed by those two statuses will show up Artists Respond to Call; the Academic Policy Review on a transcript or a diploma,” he Committee (APRC). “It’s a said. “They’re not written down pretty straightforward, common or recorded into the student’s Campus Experiments in Joy policy at all schools,” said Harvey. record.” “We just take it a step further These changes were by Hannah Craig ’17 and Jane then you have a month in between, visual arts backgrounds. and watch for students who are implemented before they were Foreman ’17 and the second part allows people slipping…We don’t force students During the week that gener- officially affirmed by the APRC, to show work that was made or to do anything. It’s basically as a In the past month at Antioch, placed specifically in response to ated the Call, the Antioch com- and academic alert letters were means to support.” the word “joy” has been getting a prompt that they didn’t even munity had the opportunity to sent to students who had below a almost as much buzz as “grit.” know would have existed a month interact with the artists and their Ron Napoli, the registrar, Continued on page 2 Since the Call at the end of July, before.” work. Wura-Natasha Ogunji recently made changes to the students, staff, faculty, and com- brought to Antioch her perfor- munity members have been “To my knowledge, noth- mance Sweep. In the piece, per- responding to seven artists’ call for ing precisely like this has actu- formers carry soil in vessels on “experiments in joy.” ally been done before. I think it’s their heads, pour the soil out and really, really unique,” said partici- then make imprints in it with The Call, a collective prompt pating artist Rosamond S. King, their bodies before exiting with for artistic action, originated at “It’s super exciting.” the soil once again in the vessels. the first-ever Call & Response The performance in the horseshoe dynamic of black women and The seven participating art- this past July was the fourth incar- performance. The project, dreamt ists are Duriel E. Harris, Kenyatta nation of the piece. up by Antioch’s own Associate A. C. Hinkle, Rosamond S. King, Professor of Performance, Gabri- Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Miré Reg- “I like seeing how it evolves elle Civil, is the first of its kind. ulus, Awilda Rodríguez Lora, and in different places,” Ogunji said. Its structure is in two parts and Gabrielle Civil. While their pres- “When I initially looked at the requires two visits to campus. In ence and work here is specifically site, the horseshoe, I thought the the first part, from July 18 to 22, performance-based, the seven art- weight of the piece might become the artists met, collaborated, pre- ists come from a variety of artis- diffused by the expansiveness of sented their work, and together tic backgrounds and trainings the space. But then I remembered generated this “Call” for artistic and have multi-faceted creative how important it is to work with action; in the second week the art- practices. Duriel E. Harris, for the spaces where we find ourselves. Leo Brandon ’17, Annalisa McFarland ’17, Keenan Grundy ists will reconvene to present their example, holds a Ph.D in poetry The performance is about mark- own responses to the call. and is an accomplished jazz singer, ing space—in both physical and ’17, and Perin Ellsworth-Heller ’17 in Introductory French while Wura-Natasha Ogunji and in McGregor Hall. Photo credit, Hana Katz-Stein ’16. It’s unique, Civil said, because Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle come from Continued on page 3 “the first part is generative, and 2•AUGUST 20, 2014 THE ANTIOCH RECORD CAMPUS NEWS Academic Progress Standards to Change Continued from page 1 issue that needs to be addressed wasn’t necessary. If either Elecia 3.0. “We thought that this policy or my advisor emailed me [and had passed and the requirements asked] ‘What’s the reasoning had changed,” said Harvey. “So behind that?’ they [would] both students got the email and they know I’m not struggling.” were confused. The wording of the Not having a more personal letter wasn’t the greatest…so we interaction is also a problem, changed the letter to [have] more according to Gabriel Amrhein, supportive language. That’s the ’16, who has received multiple whole point. We want students to letters of concern about academic feel comfortable to come to us and performance. “I feel like that use the services of the college.” human interaction could be a Some students, however, lot nicer than receiving a letter, didn’t find the letters they received [which] makes it seem like to be very helpful. “I’m glad they’re you’re in trouble,” said Amrhein. Unit Four of Case Commons, the future on-campus housing for the class of 2015. Photo, reaching out, but at the same time, “When you’re already struggling Hana Katz-Stein ’16. it’s stressful to receive emails that and someone sends you a letter say you’re not performing,” said that says, basically ‘you’re not a Will Brown ’17, who has received good student,’ over and over, it’s College Plans to Expand academic alerts from First Watch very discouraging. I think we’re in the past. “There are some other sacrificing enough just by being struggles that aren’t academic that here. If you want to further some affect our academics. I feel [those] sort of program on campus and Student Housing other factors are ignored when your grades suffer because of you have a higher standard.” that…I think that’s great.” Napoli acknowledged that By Kijin Higashibaba ’16 visitors. The class of 2015 will Stratton. “We’re going to continue Jessica Steinrueck ’17 “the letters that are being sent be living in Units Three Four, this slow growth trend so we don’t received an academic alert during As Antioch College prepares out need to be tailored to specific which can each hold eight people. outgrow our space.” her co-op quarter, but under to welcome the class of 2018, different circumstances. “I decided circumstances for each student.” Between ten and twelve people By virtue of the co-op sched- some have begun to wonder that I would do the minimum The First Watch and APR from the class of 2015 will be ule, the entire student body is about dorm space as the student requirements to pass the class so committees are aware of student living there in the fall, according never on campus at once, and body expands. Students are now I wasn’t spending a lot of time dissatisfaction with the letters, but to Community Life. the size of enrollment is carefully housed in North Hall and Birch calculated as part of the college’s doing it,” she said. She had made they haven’t heard much specific Hall; this Fall, Case Commons on With the class of 2015 living the Dean’s List for her cumulative feedback. there, Case Commons falls under overall business plan. These two Livermore Street will be opened performance and was confused by “It would be interesting to the purview of Community Life. factors give the college the flex- as a dorm space to house the class receiving both letters within a few see how students do feel about Students will be responsible for ibility to delay the opening of a of 2015.