College News

Elizabeth Coleman Visionary Leadership Award Open for Submissions Submissions Open For Visionary Leadership Award

Submissions are now being accepted for nominees for the 2017 Elizabeth Coleman Visionary Leadership award. 

Bennington College campus in winter Statement on the Executive Order on Immigration

Today, President Mariko Silver sent the following memo to the Bennington community.

"When Women Take the Reins" "When Women Take the Reins"

Mariko Silver was one of four women in leadership roles featured in a Psychology Today article, "The View from the Top."  

From Transgender Day of Remembrance at Bennington College Generation Protest

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.

Silver Featured in PI article "It Was Time to Use Our Voices"

The Philadelphia Inquirer published an article about the role of college presidents in the age of Trump that featured Mariko Silver.