COVID-19 Updates and Information
This page will be updated with the latest news regarding Bennington College’s response to COVID-19.
Fall 2022: Month by Month Case Breakdown
- September 2022: 17 cases
- October 2022: 18 cases
- November 2022: 5 cases
- December 2022: 4 cases
How You Can Help
To address the most urgent needs of our students and to provide additional support for faculty as they begin to teach in a new way, we have established the COVID-19 Relief Fund, a special initiative of the Bennington Fund. The College is incurring significant new costs associated with this crisis—from expanding technological support for students and faculty to emergency travel funding for students—and this Fund will allow us to continue to assist students with unforeseen expenses, and students and faculty in the transition to remote learning.
About the Data We Report
In order to be transparent and also protect individuals’ privacy, we will share the total cases and active cases on campus. We will not be confirming details about specific cases. If a student was believed to be infectious while in class, the faculty member will be told what class, but not the individual student’s name. The faculty member does not need to notify the students in the class. The contract tracing process will determine which students need to be notified. Students who test positive for COVID may choose to alert their families or emergency contact. The College will not share health information about specific students with family members unless a student is under 18, has given permission, and/or is severely ill and unable to communicate.
The state of Vermont will be conducting contact tracing and will be in touch with members of the community believed to be at higher risk of having contracted COVID from someone who later tested positive. Alison Tartaglia, Director of Student Health Promotion, is the College liaison to the Vermont Department of Health for student contact tracing. Health Services will also contact Human Resources and/or the Provost and Dean’s office, as appropriate; those offices will be in touch directly with staff or faculty, including to answer any questions specific to the work of the office.