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Today, President Mariko Silver sent the following memo to the Bennington community.
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Mariko Silver was one of four women in leadership roles featured in a Psychology Today article, "The View from the Top."
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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.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer published an article about the role of college presidents in the age of Trump that featured Mariko Silver.
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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.