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President Silver joined Anthony Carnevale, director of the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, and Dale Stephens, founder of UnCollege, a gap-year program for young adults, to talk to host Laura Knoy about new research on college degrees and integrating work experience with academics.

President Silver was quoted in the Huffington Post on the subject of how colleges can respond to student protests. She emphasized the importance of bringing students into the process of how policies are created.

As I begin my second year as Bennington’s president, I am working every day to build on the hundreds of conversations I have had with students, alumni, faculty, staff, and parents over the past year. With each encounter, each moment, each day, I am ever more certain that Bennington has a crucial role to play in shaping the landscape of higher education today.

President Silver spoke with Vermont Edition about her first year at Bennington and her plans moving forward.

It was not quite a year ago that I arrived on the Bennington campus, thrilled to be joining this remarkable community—a community that over the next twelve months would add two more Pulitzers to its ranks, two more Fulbrights, another New York Times Magazine cover story, an upcoming solo exhibition at the Walker Art Center, an Echoing Green Fellowship, and countless other triumphs large and small.

Every Bennington education begins with a question. My Bennington education did.

President Silver spoke with Scott Smallwood of The Chronicle of Higher Education about what drew her to Bennington.

As we welcome in the New Year, I wanted to take a moment to share with all of you some of my first term reflections.

An international policy expert who worked in the Obama administration has been chosen to succeed Elizabeth Coleman as president of Bennington College.