College News
Statement on the Executive Order on ImmigrationToday, President Mariko Silver sent the following memo to the Bennington community.
Generation ProtestPresident 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.
"It Was Time to Use Our Voices" The Philadelphia Inquirer published an article about the role of college presidents in the age of Trump that featured Mariko Silver.
Great Reads In its Guide to 2016’s Great Reads, NPR recommended Nitro Mountain by Lee Clay Johnson ’07, The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney MFAW ’13, Kookooland by Gloria Norris ’76, and The Queen of the Night by former MFAW faculty Alexander Chee.
Working Together for Bennington (Winter 2016)Bennington is the home of individualized education, but it is also a shared endeavor. We are a community of creative thinkers who are constantly generating new ideas and ways of working—together—on campus and out in the wider world. Every single day, we make the decisions, clear the spaces, and extend the invitations that allow us to build the College, collectively and collaboratively, according to our most deeply-felt principles, ideals, and aspirations.