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We are intimate, our classes are small, our houses are homes. But we take up space in the world—in the cultural landscape, in the landscape of higher education, and in the global landscape of ideas and makers. And that’s because we think big.

Now in its second term, the Prison Education Initiative launched by Bennington College in 2015 will enroll 29 prisoners at the Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, New York, in classes this spring.

Megan Mayhew Bergman (MFAW '10) has been appointed associate director of the MFA in Writing Program at Bennington College. She is the author of two critically acclaimed works of short fiction (Birds of a Lesser Paradise and Almost Famous Women) and is at work on a novel that will be published by Scribner.

President Silver authors an opinion piece in the Hechinger Report, in which she argues for the value of helping students cultivate a productive dissatisfaction. 

The Princeton Review has released its 2016 rankings of the best colleges in the U.S., and Bennington has been given high marks in a number of categories. The College achieved the #2 spot on the list for “Best Classroom Experience”; it also ranked #2 on the list for “Professors Receive High Marks,” citing Bennington faculty members as some of the most interesting and accessible in top U.S. colleges. Bennington clinched the top spot for “Best College Dorms” and claimed #3 position on a list of “Best College Theater.”