Commencement at closing college
From Times Wire Reports
Cash-strapped Antioch College held a bittersweet commencement ceremony as officials moved ahead with plans to close the school this summer until it gets back on its feet.
The pioneering, private liberal arts college in Yellow Springs announced last year that because of declining enrollment, heavy dependence on tuition and a small endowment, the college would close to reorganize and would reopen in 2012, possibly sooner.
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