New College Independent Alumni/ae Association

Reports from students who attended the Alice in Wonderland get together with the three remaining trustees Ted Corman, Philip Knowlton, and Jane Swan today, attest to the ethereal ambience created by the trustees’ inability to come to grips with the reality of loss of accreditation and access to federal funding. Allegedly, the accrediting agency WASC informed the trustees this morning that they have ten days to formulate a plan to deal with student, alumni, and employee issues under school closure. But instead of being forthright with those in attendance this afternoon about what will happen as the school disassembles, the trustees dithered in their delusions about what programs they might keep as profitable ventures in their looking glass world, as though the disaster of the last nine months never happened.

To say we find it odd that this remnant board that fails to make records available and likely doesn’t even constitute a legal quorum under federal law, is yet able to prolong the misery of everyone involved simply because they haven’t been hauled before a judge, is an understatement. The fact they haven’t been sued personally for the harms they’ve caused as trustees puzzles us no end.

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