College News

24 Hour Plays The 24 Hour Plays Benefit to Honor Artist and Activist Spencer Cox

On Monday, February 20th at 8 pm at The Pershing Square Signature Center in New York City, Bennington College, in association with The 24 Hour Plays, will present The 24 Hour Plays®: A Bennington Tribute to Spencer Cox. This one night–only event will take place at The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre and will bring together Bennington College alumni and friends—including Emmy, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and Obie winners and nominees—to write, cast, rehearse, and present six one-act plays within a 24-hour period. Ticket sales and donations will benefit the Spencer Cox ’90 Scholarship for student activists at Bennington College.

Elizabeth Coleman Visionary Leadership Award Open for Submissions Submissions Open For Visionary Leadership Award

Submissions are now being accepted for nominees for the 2017 Elizabeth Coleman Visionary Leadership award. 

"When Women Take the Reins" "When Women Take the Reins"

Mariko Silver was one of four women in leadership roles featured in a Psychology Today article, "The View from the Top."  

Bennington College campus in winter Statement on the Executive Order on Immigration

Today, President Mariko Silver sent the following memo to the Bennington community.

From Transgender Day of Remembrance at Bennington College Generation Protest

President Silver published an essay about student expectations that protests will be part of their college experience, and the role of educators in helping them learn how to effect change.