Antioch College

applications and selectivity fell with 140 applicants for 2016 entrance and a 71% acceptance rate.
The Higher Learning Commission granted the newly restored Antioch College candidacy status in pursuit of accreditation on June 13, 2014. The commission also allowed the college "to take the fast track to accreditation ... on a two-year path rather than the traditional four-year process." The college's students would thereby be eligible for federal financial aid. Two years later, the commission granted Antioch College accreditation. Antioch's accreditation was continued in 2021 but subject to provision of certain reports in 2022 and 2023.
Between 2011 and 2015, the college borrowed against a $42 million endowment to finance $37 million in capital improvements. On May 5, 2015, Roosevelt announced that he would depart as president of Antioch College at the end of the year. Dr. Thomas Manley was hired as the new president, and began his presidency in March 2016.
With accreditation secure in 2016, President Manley …