Advancement of Public Action: Related Content
![“New Model to Address Refugee Crisis”](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Mellon-Logo-Square_300x225_0.jpg?itok=XsKQodm0)
The Mellon Foundation recently awarded $135,000 to the Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement and Education—a group comprised of Bennington, Vassar, Sarah Lawrence, and Bard colleges—to explore innovative ways to engage with urgent issues of displacement and forced migration.
![Image of Sarah Shulman](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Sarah%20Schulman%201.jpg?itok=gFGOw1Lk)
Novelist, essayist, playwright, queer activist, and Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the College of Staten Island, Sarah Schulman.
![Sarah Schulman Panel Discussion](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Sarah%20Schulman%202.jpg?itok=o2yK37r8)
Film Screening of United in Anger: The History of ACT UP followed by a conversation with co-producer, Sarah Schulman
![Sgorbati Reviews "An Uncertain Ally" by David L. Phillips](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Screen%20Shot%202017-02-23%20at%203.42.33%20PM.png?itok=dmZ-wS2s)
David L. Phillips is director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights. He served as a senior adviser and foreign affairs expert at the U.S. Department of State during the administrations of President Clinton, Bush, and Obama. He has published many books on the Middle East, including An Uncertain Ally: Turkey Under Erdogan’s Dictatorship, The Kurdish Spring: A New Map for the Middle East, and Losing Iraq: Inside the Post-War Reconstruction Fiasco.
![Center for the Advancement of Public Action](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/misc/CAPA_Sign_300x225.jpg?itok=CaeblamO)
David Bond, associate director of Bennington's Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA), co-authored an Op-Ed in the Bennington Banner against the Trump Administration's blanket freeze on all EPA grants and contracts.
![24 Hour Plays](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/24hr-3colorLogo%20%281%29.jpg?itok=02f31cTB)
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.
![Walls, Barriers, and Understanding](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/visual-moments/Bennington_Monument.jpg?itok=aLNxNInR)
The Bennington Banner published an op-ed by Michael Thomson '15 about the impact of walls on national identity and the relationships between nations.
![Elizabeth Coleman Visionary Leadership Award Open for Submissions](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/VisionaryLeadershipAward.jpg?itok=iHfA6yGf)
Submissions are now being accepted for nominees for the 2017 Elizabeth Coleman Visionary Leadership award.
![From Transgender Day of Remembrance at Bennington College](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Rememberance_1200x750.jpg?itok=krPNNb9B)
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.
![David Bond writes about the rise of Trumpism](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Bond-Rise-of-Trumpism_300x225.jpg?itok=MpUTM4_E)
On the eve of the presidential inauguration, a top journal in American anthropology has published a collection of essays, co-edited by Associate Director of the Center for the Advancement of Public Action David Bond, which raises new questions about the rise of Trump and the current state of American politics. The collection features work from leading anthropologists who offer provocative reflections on the culture of Trump and popular misconceptions of class and race today. These wide-ranging essays offer bold new interpretations of solidarity, hate and the future of American democracy.
![Silver Featured in PI article](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Philadelphia-Inquirer-Logo_300x225.jpg?itok=QAmS00Ci)
The Philadelphia Inquirer published an article about the role of college presidents in the age of Trump that featured Mariko Silver.
![Jaqueline Kramer painting](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/syrianrefugeepainting.jpg?itok=scEgJ_Pj)
Jaqueline Kramer '76 installed a selection of paintings inspired by the Syrian refugee crisis. The proceeds went to the International Rescue Committee. For Kramer, who studied painting during her time at Bennington, “This series combines my love of painting with my love of service. I’m very excited to share these paintings with others.”
![Chronicle of Higher Education](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/chronicle-logo-stacked300_0.jpg?itok=Gk1_8hRG)
In the wake of the election this November, The Chronicle of Higher Education published an opinion piece by Mariko Silver called "Learning How to Be Together."
![Michael Cohen praised](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/CohenMichael_320x230px.jpg?itok=88Xq2iVw)
In an address to Congress on November 29, Vermont Senator Leahy praised the work of the Arava Institute, of which Michael Cohen is one of the founding faculty members.
![paran creek dam](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/dam_1400x850.jpg?itok=9ox2XLTB)
The mission of the Paran Creek Watershed Project is to support the village’s long term stewardship of renewable water resources; clean contaminants to improve the aquatic and riverine habitat; establish North Bennington as a model for energy independence; and form a sustainable, long-term watershed management plan by revitalizing existing infrastructure.
![Inside Higher Ed In Praise of Pop-Ups](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/InsideHigherEd%20.jpg?itok=Gjf5JV2J)
Inside Higher Ed wrote about Bennington’s pop-up courses, highlighting the flexibility of the model, and the breadth the pop-up courses offered by faculty members across the disciplines.
![No Tolerance](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/NoToleranceBennington.jpg?itok=f3ld-4hz)
Students from Bennington, NYU, and Drew University led a protest at Columbus Circle in New York City on Saturday, November 5th against police brutality.
![Hack VT](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/HackVT2016_300x225.jpg?itok=IZYTfZHH)
Rohail Altaf '17 and Asad J. Malik '19 were recently awarded a $3000 prize at the Vermont Hackathon for creating an app that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve student engagement in online courses. The pair opted for general entry, rather than as a student team, in order to be able to compete in the overall pool, against agencies and tech companies.
![North Bennington Train Station](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/NorthBennington_TrainStation_600x450_0.jpg?itok=1jpOjx2Z)
Representatives from a class gave a report to the Village Board of Trustees on Tuesday about their ongoing research to generate a feasibility study on local dams and waterway privileges.
![VT Statehouse](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/VTstatehouse300.jpg?itok=IKs_NEaX)
Roi Karlinsky '17 and Ben Simpson '12 researched alternatives to Vermont's current DUI laws, and testified based on that research for bill H.560, which proposes alternatives Vermont's current DUI policies.
![PFOA Donohue video](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/PFOA-USEPA-Health-Advisory_Joyce-Donohue.png?itok=c88dqfno)
On Thursday, October 6, Bennington College welcomed EPA Senior Health Scientist Joyce Donohue. In May 2016, the EPA issued a new guidance level of 70 ppt for PFOA in drinking water. Dr. Donohue gave a public lecture on the background and significance of the new EPA health guidance level for PFOA in drinking water.
![The Bystander, by Tim Collins](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/bystander300.jpg?itok=YVbrze1B)
Tim Collins spoke on WKVT in September about performing The Bystander, a one-man-show based on the bystander effect, at Bennington College.
![Dado, Nejla, Amina, Ajsa, Inas](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/OurWayIsPeace300.jpg?itok=L8GUJroS)
This summer five Bennington students from Bosnia explored the intersections between peacebuilding and theater through their work with The Center for Peacebuilding (CIM) in Sanski Most, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Now, they are bringing what they’ve learned back to Bennington. They will present their work at the Peacebuilding in Action panel on October 1 at the Center for the Advancement of Public Actions (CAPA).
![PFOA Event](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/PFOAdecEvent.jpg?itok=8bksYNU6)
The Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation held a meeting of community member and local legislators from Vermont on September 28 in at Bennington College to answer questions from the community, and communicate further information about PFOA as it unfolds.
![Great Meadow Class](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/great_meadow_class300.jpg?itok=6g-lj50s)
Following an article about Bennington’s Prison Education Initiative (PEI), the Glens Falls Post-Star published an editorial calling the program “a model for inmate education.” The editorial cited US incarceration rates and argued “We cannot afford to write off that many people.”
![Great Meadow Facility](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/great_meadow_0.jpg?itok=qoNaeu_D)
Bennington's Prison Education Initiative (PEI) was the subject of a recent article in the Post Star. The article spoke highly of the initiative's positive results on the lives and prospects of the inmates that participate in the program.
![Rio Olympics logo](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Rio_600x450.jpg?itok=dpo78BmZ)
Musician and faculty member Susie Ibarra is working with David Hertz, a Brazilian chef and a World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leader, around the launch of Refettorio Gastromotiva, a food and cultural center that will repurpose 12 tons of food from the Olympics to turn it into nutritious meals for the neediest of Rio.
![pop-up](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/pop.jpg?itok=d6JcTyOa)
Pop-up courses at Bennington let faculty, experts, and students to dive deep into the issues as they happen by Jeanne Bonner MFA ‘16
![Need new image](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/BondDavid_320x230px.jpg?itok=zrhcPvrq)
The National Science Foundation has awarded an $18,000 EAGER Research Grant to David Bond, Associate Director of CAPA, to support his ongoing research on the role of fossil fuels in driving contemporary social and environmental change. Bond is joined on the grant by Lucas Bessire, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma.
![Bennington Selected to Participate in Dept of Ed’s Second Chance Pell Pilot Program img](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/images.jpeg?itok=qjGKJS93)
The Department of Education announced today that Bennington College was among the colleges and universities selected from a competitive national pool to participate in the Second Chance Pell pilot program.