I recently toured several colleges in New England, including Amherst and Hampshire Colleges in Massachusetts, and Bennington and Marlboro Colleges in Vermont. These visits brought home the fact that students do have choices in the sorts of curriculum they would like to form the core of their academic experience in college.
The core of college is [...]
I spent some time on the campus of Bennington College in Vermont, where the curriculum is very different from most other colleges. Bennington requires students to create educational “plans” that map out their entire academic experience. Faculty members review these plans very thoroughly, and apparently about 70 or 75 percent of plans are rejected in [...]
Read full post...I recently spent a gorgeous spring afternoon on the campus of Bennington College in southern Vermont. The campus is a lovely mixture of colonial architecture and internationalist modern styles, and 650 students are proud to be known as a relatively off-beat, alternative, and artistic bunch. Like Marlboro, Bennington does not offer traditional majors, but requires [...]
Read full post...I recently visited Marlboro College in southern Vermont. Many colleges claim to be unique. Marlboro merits the label.
With only 320 students, Marlboro attracts students who want to take charge of their own intellectual development, who want to live in a quiet, rustic environment, and who are serious about getting involved in a tight-knit community.
Here’s a [...]