17 Facts About Bennington College

Bennington College is a private liberal arts college in Bennington, Vermont.

Every year since the college began in 1932, every Bennington College student has engaged in internships and volunteer opportunities each winter term.

Bennington College was succeeded by a member of the Bennington faculty, Dr Lewis Webster Jones, economist and labor mediator.

Bennington College's was living in Dewey House at the time and had traveled alone.

In 1951 the U S State Department issued a documentary on Bennington highlighting its unique educational approach as a model for the Allied rebuilding of German society after the War.

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In 1969, Bennington College became fully coeducational, a move that attracted major national attention, including a major feature story in The New York Times Magazine.

Bennington College appeared on the Princeton Review's 2018 Best Northeastern Colleges List, which includes the schools that it considers "academically outstanding and well worth consideration in your college search".

Notably, Bennington was featured in a 2016 article by Forbes as one of "Tomorrow's Hot Colleges" highlighting the institution's recent flourishing "under bold, entrepreneurial leadership".

In 2015 Bennington College announced a $5 million gift from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.

Bennington College is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.

At Bennington College, students receive graduate-style advising from a faculty member who assists with course selection, internship and job applications, graduate school preparation, and more.

Bennington College Writing Seminars is a low-residency Master of Fine Arts program in writing founded by Poet Liam Rector in 1994.

Center for the Advancement of Public Action at Bennington College established a Master of Fine Arts in Public Action in 2018.

Bennington College has a total undergraduate enrollment of 668, with a gender distribution of 32.

In 2017, Bennington College acquired the Robert Frost Stone House Museum through a gift from the Friends of Robert Frost.

Whereas Ellis's Camden Bennington College is located in New Hampshire, Lethem's Camden is in Vermont, and is notable for being the most expensive college in America.

All three of the writers attended Bennington College, which is really located in Vermont, and was at one time notorious for being the most expensive college in America.