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The Princeton Review has released its 2016 rankings of the best colleges in the U.S., and Bennington has been given high marks in a number of categories. The College achieved the #2 spot on the list for “Best Classroom Experience”; it also ranked #2 on the list for “Professors Receive High Marks,” citing Bennington faculty members as some of the most interesting and accessible in top U.S. colleges. Bennington clinched the top spot for “Best College Dorms” and claimed #3 position on a list of “Best College Theater.”

Citing Field Work Term, Forbes magazine recently ranked Bennington as the forth most most entrepreneurial college in the nation.

Art New England Workshops, a program of Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, runs three weeks of workshops for visual artists every summer at Bennington College.

"A Bennington education is an education in the real." These were the words of class speaker Parke Haskell ’15 to her fellow graduates at this year’s commencement. “We don't ask questions that already have answers,” she continued. “We are encouraged to reach beyond the realm of the ascertained, to take risks and leap into the very scary real, where we do not know at all what will happen, where questions only engender more questions, where nothing has a name. This is why I believe that a Bennington education is the most terrifying and gratifying one in the world.”

Today, Bennington College dedicated the Paul Feeley Painting Studio, in honor of the painter who served on the Bennington faculty from 1939 until his death in 1965 and who, in his career as an artist, was a central figure in the U.S. postwar avant-garde.