College News

Vermont Business Magazine recognized Bennington as being among the “top institutions” now offering pop-up courses—a new curricular approach that enables faculty, experts, and students to delve into current events and issues as they unfold.

Bennington provost and dean Isabel Roche was the subject of a Q&A in HigherEdJobs about what makes the College—and its students, faculty, and alumni—stand out in the landscape of higher education.

The New York Times profiled artist Alexandra Bell for her Counternarratives project–now on view on buildings around the campus–which features supersized New York Times articles edited to reveal biases and assumptions about race and gender.

NewPages.com glowingly reviewed issue three of Bennington Review, calling it "an incredibly strong issue put forth by an excellent journal."

A recent exhibition of works by two former faculty members and iconic figures in contemporary art—sculptor Sir Anthony Caro and painter Jules Olitski—"offers a capsule vision of the relationship of the two artists" during their formative years together at Bennington, one critic writes.