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Bennington's 75th Anniversary Marked by Gifts and A New Curriculum
College honors 75 years. October 7, 2007
It´s a good weekend to be Dr. Elizabeth Coleman, president of the eclectic and storied Bennington College. The announcement Friday of a $20 million gift to the college couldn't have come at a better time—at the culmination of the institution´s 75 anniversary celebration. [Read more.]
Bennington Receives $20 Million Donation, the Largest Gift in the College's History
Bennington College gets $20 million donation. October 5, 2007
A Canadian couple has donated $20 million to Bennington College, the largest gift in the school´s history, just as its 75th-anniversary celebrations get under way. [Read more.]
The Atlantic Monthly Ranks Bennington's MFA Program, One of Nation's Best
Assessing America's top graduate writing programs, Where Great Writers Are Made. Special Fiction Issue 2007
With such a schedule, programs such as Bennington's [low-residency MFA program] ... can attract star faculty members who are based elsewhere. [Read more.]
President Coleman Takes-On College Rankings in Opinion-Editorial
College rankings give false impression. July 22, 2007
Bennington, Marlboro, Middlebury colleges skip U.S. News survey. The U.S. News and World Report issue ranking colleges and universities will hit newsstands in August, just in time for anxious parents and high school seniors who are in the throes of choosing a college. [Read more.]
The New York Times Book Review Calls Faculty Member Mac Maharaj´s Biography A Striking Success”
The Old Revolutionary. June 10, 2007
The career of Mac Maharaj sheds light on the new South Africa. [Read more.]
The Christian Science Monitor Speaks with Faculty Member Geoffrey Pigman for Expert Analysis
Former leaders find that all the world´s their stage.
May 21, 2007
Europe's loss may be the world's gain. Two of its heavyweight statesmen are retiring from national politics, but that doesn't mean they have finished with trying to make a difference on the world stage. [Read more.]
Vogue Cover Features Robyn King's '07 Fashion Design, a Field Work Term Creation
May 2007 [Read more.]
The San Francisco Chronicle Gives High Praise to the Life and Work of Faculty Member Mac Maharaj, Recorded in Acclaimed Biography
South African apartheid-era hero is little known here.
April 15, 2007
In an age where criticizing the timorousness of mainstream American publishers is all too often justified, it is a rare pleasure to be able to congratulate one for bringing out such a long, detailed book about a figure all but unknown outside of his native land. [Read more.]
The BBC World News Interviews International Relations Faculty Member Mansour Farhang
April 3, 2007
"I think it’s a hopeful state. Iran has used the incident for muscle-flexing purposes and the main message was that ‘we are the power to be reckoned with in the region’ and I think they squeezed enough benefit out of this incident." [Read more.]
The Los Angeles Times Declares Faculty Member Steven Bach´s Biography “Brilliant”
Book Review—Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl by Steven Bach. March 11, 2007
Leni Riefenstahl was a slut. steven Bach is too graceful a writer and too nuanced a psychologist to summarize this life so bluntly, but, for the reader of his brilliant biography of the Nazi filmmaker, that conclusion is inescapable. [Read more.]
The New York Times Profiles Faculty Member Allen Shawn
Book of the Times—Recalling a Literary Family, and Phobias. January 30, 2007
As he notes in his remarkable new memoir, "Wish I Could Be There," the composer Allen Shawn suffers from a veritable rainbow of phobias. [Read more.]
United Press International Speaks with Faculty Member Geoffrey Pigman about the World Economic Forum
Analysis: Davos minus glitz, U.S. support. January 26, 2007
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are staying away this year, but for business executives and others on the world's A-list of wheelers and dealers, Davos remains a place to network on a global scale. [Read more.]
The Boston Globe Reports on Bennington's Green Campus Initiatives
Bennington College wants to cut oil use by burning wood. January 11, 2007
Bennington College is moving to cut its emissions of fossil fuel-generated greenhouse gases and to save money by moving from oil to wood chips for most of its heating. [Read more.]
The New York Times Magazine Excerpts from Faculty Member Allen Shawn's New Book
The Roads…Not Taken. January 7, 2007
I am driving down a dirt road in the woods to a friend's house. He didn't say how many miles away his house was. He did say that it was beautiful there, on the lake, so I suggested to E. that she come along, and she is sitting next to me, chatting. [Read more.]
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