campus due to the school's dire financial crisis and that Birenbaum's "pugnacious and often abrasive style had offended many Antiochians", with enrollment at the Yellow Springs, Ohio campus dropping from 2,000 to 1,000 during the 1970s. Birenbaum implemented cost-cutting measures including a cut in the number of satellite campus programs nationwide from 30 down to under 10 and established Antioch University as a parent for its multiple campuses. By November 1980, The New York Times was able to report in a headline of an article about the college that "A Streamlined Antioch Appears on the Way to Survival". Birenbaum announced in June 1984 that he would be retiring and Alan E. Guskin of the University of Wisconsin–Parkside was named to succeed him as of September 1, 1985. Death A resident of Brooklyn and Wellfleet, Massachusetts, Birenbaum died at the age of 87 on October 4, 2010, due to heart failure at his New York City home. He was survived by his wife, the former Helen Bloch, as well as by a daughter, a son and four grandchildren. His daughter Susan Birenbaum died in 2008. Bibliography Birenbaum was the author of the 1969 book Overlive: Power, Poverty, and the University and the 1971 text Something for Everybody Is Not Enough: An Educator's Search for His Education. In a 1972 CBC documentary, Dr. Birenbaum comments on controversial independent scholar Immanuel Velikovsky and how such scholarship could be a natural part of the academic curriculum. Legacy The William M. Birenbaum Papers were donated by Helen Birenbaum in 2012 to the Archives and Special Collections Department of the Library at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). The William M. Birenbaum Collection 1946-1985 documents his career, References 1923 births 2010 deaths People from Macomb, Illinois American education writers United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II Antioch College Antioch College faculty Long Island University faculty People from Brooklyn People from Waterloo, Iowa People from Wellfleet, Massachusetts Presidents of Antioch College The New School faculty United States Army Air Forces soldiers University of Chicago Law School alumni University of Northern Iowa alumni Wayne State University faculty