On October 6, 2007, at Bennington's 75th Anniversary Reunion Weekend, President Elizabeth Coleman announced a new idea at Bennington—a curricular initiative that will apply the "full force of the intellectual and imaginative power, passion, and boldness of our students, faculty, and staff" to addressing urgent world problems.

Click here to read the entirety of the speech, including details about the new initiative and how it is intertwined with Bennington's abiding emphasis on "enabling students to discover and pursue their individual intellectual and imaginative identities, passions, obsessions, dreams."