Antioch College alumni are circulating a resolution that calls for splitting the college away from Antioch University, which operates five nonresidential campuses from Seattle to New Hampshire.

The resolution, which was signed by 500 alumni at a reunion at the college’s Ohio campus late last month, requests that an autonomous board of trustees be created for the college, which is to be shuttered next year (The Chronicle, June 29). The alumni want a merger between the college and the university’s McGregor branch, which is located adjacent to the college’s historic but decrepit campus in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and they want the college’s assets to be preserved solely for the use of the Yellow Springs institution.

University officials say the college, which had been drowning in debt for years, had stayed afloat with money from the other campuses.

Antioch alumni have created a college-revival fund to prevent the looming closure. They have raised $525,000 as of Tuesday, according to the Antiochians Web site. —Paul Fain