College News

Women in the Academy Women in the Academy

President Mariko Silver’s essay is featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s “What It’s Like to be a Woman in the Academy” round-up.

BPI Graduation Computer Science and Prison Reform

Since its launch in 2015, Bennington College’s Prison Education Initiative (PEI), a program of the Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA) founded by faculty members David Bond and Annabel Davis-Goff, has worked to bring liberal arts programming to the maximum-security men’s prison Great Meadow in Comstock, NY.

Susan Stryker Susan Stryker Featured as 2018 Ruth D. Ewing Lecturer

Susan Stryker, award-winning scholar and filmmaker whose historical research, theoretical writing, and creative works have helped shape the cultural conversation on transgender topics since the early 1990s, will be the 2018 Ruth D. Ewing Lecturer at Bennington College.

Judith Enck Former EPA Official Judith Enck Decries Trump's Environmental Assault

On Friday, March 8, Judith Enck addressed the College and local community on "The Trump Assault on Environmental Protection and What You Can Do About It" as part of CAPA's Environment and Public Action Initiative.  

Submissions Open For Visionary Leadership Award Submissions Open For Visionary Leadership Award

Submissions are now being accepted for nominees for the 2018 Elizabeth Coleman Visionary Leadership award.