College News

On June 24, 2022, Bennington College President Laura Walker sent the Bennington Community the following message regarding the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.

Bennington College College President Laura Walker announced that Lisa Noble has been appointed as Associate Dean of Career Development and Field Work Term.

Learn more about Juneteenth, the day that the US Army freed enslaved people in Texas, ending slavery in the Confederate States.

Bennington College announced that it has received a major gift of art from renowned television and film writer and producer Norman Lear to benefit its Art for Access program.

The Robert Frost Stone House Museum at Bennington College has been awarded funding from the Windham Foundation to support its upcoming season of public programs, including special programming in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Robert Frost’s beloved poem, “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,” which was written in 1922 while Frost was living at the Stone House.

Pulitzer Prize winning poet Jericho Brown will be the commencement speaker for the Class of 2022. The faculty speaker will be Elena Demyanenko, faculty member in dance. The senior student speaker will be Sofia Pacheco Pardo '22.

Bennington College has earned its second STARS Gold rating in recognition of its sustainability achievements from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).

Second selection of works will be sold from the collection of Melva Bucksbaum 

On Saturday, April 16, the Bennington College community participated in a Seder to commemorate the second night of Passover. 

Research Professor of Oceanography at Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Dr. Kara Lavender Law will speak on “A Global Look at Plastic in the Ocean.”