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Scholarships and FWT Grants

Generous private philanthropy is vital to maintaining our community of exceptionally talented students, and we thank those who have chosen to support Bennington through the creation of scholarships and Field Work Term grants. The following are scholarships and FWT Grants established or awarded in Fiscal Year 2024 (July 1, 2023 — June 30, 2024).

Named and Endowed Scholarships

  • Class of 1963 Scholarship
  • 1970s Alumni Scholarship
  • George Adams Ellis Scholarship
  • Art For Access Scholarships
  • George I. Alden Scholarship
  • Don Belton ’81 Scholarship
  • Pamela Richards Brooks '41 Scholarship
  • Karen Leslie Burke ’84 Endowed Scholarship
  • Anne Schlabach Burkhardt Endowed Scholarship Fund
  • Margret Ross Burkhardt Endowed Scholarship Fund
  • Mardah Chami MFA'22 Memorial Scholarship Fund
  • Lois Schulman Chazen Arts & Literature Scholarship
  • Barbara Ushkow Deane ’51 Scholarship
  • Rosalie Gittings Drexel ’47 Scholarship
  • Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching
  • Catharine Osgood Foster Library Fund
  • Wallace Fowlie Scholarship
  • Elise Weinrich Geary ’73 Fund for Science Equipment
  • Catherine Morrison Golden ’55, P’80 Undergraduate Writing Fellowships
  • Judith Backer Grunberg ’55 Scholarship
  • Judith Backer Grunberg '55 Endowed Scholarship
  • Francine Smerka Hall '65, MFA-W '02 Endowed Scholarship
  • Leonora Harris Dance Scholarship
  • Charlotte and J. Philip Heyman Scholarship
  • Hoffberger-Rosenberg Scholarship
  • Island Fund Scholarship
  • Amy Dolgin Jaffe ’67 and David Jaffe Scholarship
  • Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera Endowed Scholarship for the MFA Writing Seminars
  • Barbara & Lewis Jones Teaching Fund/Social Science
  • Lewis & Barbara Jones Chair in Social Sciences
  • Barbara R. Kapp '61 Endowed Scholarship Fund
  • Elizabeth Reed Keller ’38 Scholarship
  • John Kenney Scholarship
  • Agnes M. Lindsay Trust Scholarship
  • The Christine Loizeaux Dance Scholarship
  • Elinor Gottlieb Mannucci ’48 Scholarship
  • Nicky Martin Memorial Scholarship for Performing Arts
  • Beryl Martin ’85 Memorial Scholarship
  • Hall Park McCullough & Edith van Benthuysen Scholarship
  • Jerome A. and Estelle R. Newman Assistance Fund Scholarship
  • Jules Olitski Scholarship
  • Catharine Osgood Foster Scholarship
  • Cynthia Kelley O’Neill ’51 Scholarship
  • Miriam Lampke Petrie Scholarship
  • Pioneers Memorial Fund Scholarship
  • Renate Ponsold Scholarship Fund
  • Liam Rector Scholarship
  • Melissa Rosenberg Performing Arts Scholarship
  • Ida and William Rosenthal Scholarship
  • Judith Schneider ’61 Scholarship
  • James Gordon Schnell Memorial Scholarship
  • Charlene Schwartz ’54 Scholarship
  • Edith Stevens Sheldon ’43 Assistantship in the Sciences
  • Laura Kesselman Skoler '57 Endowed Scholarship
  • Sandra Kesselman Slotnik ’61 Scholarship
  • Suzanne Snowden ’53 Scholarship
  • Solon E. Summerfield Foundation Scholarship
  • Leo and Tekla Gottlieb Scholarship
  • Peter Thompson Scholarship
  • Gregory Tucker Scholarship
  • Loet and Edith Velmans Scholarship
  • E. Ginoris Vizcarra ’54 Scholarship
  • Deborah Wadsworth Memorial Scholarship
  • Walter Family Scholarship Fund for International Students
  • Joan Maggin Weiner ’52 Scholarship
  • Dotha Seaverns Welbourn Fund for Maintenance
  • Libby Zion ’87 Memorial Scholarship

Named and Endowed FWT Grants

  • Barbara A. Abercrombie M.D. '71 Endowed FWT Fund
  • David Beitzel ’83 Arts in Action Field Work Term
  • The Chris Conroy ’12 Field Work Term Scholarship for Writing
  • Spencer Cox '90 Field Work Term Fellowship for Student Activists
  • Iftekhar Entrepreneurial Grant
  • Emily Kassier ’14 FWT Scholarship
  • The Lucille Lortel Foundation Fellowships in Theatre
  • Robert Gary Miller ’86 Field Work Term Scholarship
  • Public Action Field Work Term Scholarship
  • Kamal Shaikh ’02 Memorial Scholarship
  • The Stephens Field Work Term Fellowship