Faculty News
Farhang Hosts Conference on Advancing Democracy in IranBennington faculty member Mansour Farhang and Maryland University professor Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak have received multiple grants—including $50,000 from George Soros's Open Society Institute—to convene a conference on "Toward a Culture of Civil Liberties, Human Rights and Democracy in Iran" at the University of Maryland's Roshan Center for Persian Studies, from October 28-31.
NYT Article Featuring Anderegg Stirs DebateWhen a New York Times reporter reached out to psychology faculty member David Anderegg for a story on America's need for more "cool nerds"—young people who can meld computing skills with other fields—Anderegg pointed out one obvious problem.
Jackson Profiled in Poets & WritersProfiled in the current issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, MFA faculty member Major Jackson discusses his life as a writer, his just-published collection of poetry, and shares a few thoughts on the Bennington Writing Seminars—which the magazine recently ranked among the best low-residency MFA programs in the world.
President Coleman Speaks at Gov 2.0 SummitPresident Coleman was invited to this year's Gov 2.0 Summit in Washington D.C., where she discussed Bennington's groundbreaking initiative to build a liberal arts curriculum around pressing, real-world problems.
President Coleman Critiques State of Liberal Arts in Recent ArticlePresident Coleman reasserted her critique of liberal arts colleges in an independent Vermont newspaper last month, declaring, as she did in her much-publicized 2009 TED speech, that "genuine liberal arts education no longer exists."