College News

Bennington magazine was honored with a Gold Award for Best Overall Magazine from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education for its special coverage of the College's 75th anniversary, celebrated in 2007-08.

Bennington Bookmarks, a new collaborative art installation, will be unveiled at an opening reception at Bennington College’s Crossett Library on Tuesday, May 20, at 5:00pm.

Amory Lovins, author of Winning the Oil Endgame and CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, will speak at the first annual Four College Issues Forum—a forum founded by Bennington College, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, Southern Vermont College, and Williams College "to bring significant discussion of national and global issues to the region and to their campuses."

Bennington’s seven-week, off-campus winter term called Field Work Term, was highlighted this week in the Sunday, January 6, 2008 The New York Times Education Life article “Five Colleges Where Work Counts.”

Bennington College is hosting a pop-up course this summer—Understanding and Responding to COVID-19, Quarantine, and Crisis: An Interdisciplinary Course—in which members of the Bennington faculty and others look at the unfolding COVID-19 crisis across disciplines, from anthropology to mathematical modeling to poetry to film. Students will be asked to design a research or artistic project as part of the course.