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	Bennington - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Bennington, town, seat of Bennington County, southwestern Vermont, on the Walloomsac River; chartered 1749.
		Bennington, Battle of, battle of the American Revolution, fought near the village of Bennington, Vermont, on August 16, 1777.
		Bennington College, private, coeducational institution in Bennington, Vermont, founded as a college for women in 1932 by a group interested in...
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/SRPage.aspx?search=Bennington (109 words)

	Bennington College - Peterson's In-Depth Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Bennington College is located in the small town of Bennington, Vermont, at the foot of the Green Mountains.
		Bennington College, founded in 1932, believes that the best education is one that students create for themselves.
		Bennington graduates students with a well-rounded resume as well as a bachelor’s degree in any area(s) of the humanities, natural sciences, or visual and performing arts.
	www.petersons.com /acuus/code/idd.asp?sponsor=1&inunid=5320&orderLineNum=685205-2 (422 words)

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		Bennington School, Inc. is a residential treatment facility serving 100 students in grades 7-12 with a faculty of 33 and a support staff of 70.
		At Bennington, students work closely with teachers who are themselves practitioners and learners actively pursuing that which, in the words of one, "keeps them awake at night." In consultation with faculty advisors, students design their own curriculum, course work specific to their interest, questions, goals, and needs.
		Bennington seeks resourceful, inventive students with a particular commitment to the challenges and joys of independent work, who will share their personal and academic strengths with this community.
	www.bennington.com /roundtable/Education-9.htm (1897 words)

	Bennington College wants to cut oil use by burning wood - Boston.com
		Bennington College is moving to cut its emissions of fossil fuel-generated greenhouse gases and to save money by moving from oil to wood chips for most of its heating.
		BENNINGTON, Vt. --Bennington College is moving to cut its emissions of fossil fuel-generated greenhouse gases and to save money by moving from oil to wood chips for most of its heating.
		The college expects to cut its oil use from 440,000 gallons in the 2004-2005 heating season to 32,000 in the 2007-2008 season.
	www.boston.com /news/education/k_12/articles/2007/01/11/bennington_college_wants_to_cut_oil_use_by_burning_wood?mode=PF (372 words)

	Consortium of Vermont Colleges-Bennington College
		Bennington College, a liberal arts college founded in 1932, began as and remains an invitation to learn.
		Bennington is committed to the belief that teachers should do what they teach, should bring to the classroom an engagement with their discipline learned through active practice in the world.
		During the winter term, students take their academic interests to the world beyond the college campus, where they pursue jobs and internships in fields that complement their studies, clarify their interests, and prepare them for their future.
	www.vtcolleges.org /vtcolleges/benc/index.html (383 words)

	Bennington, Vermont History and Lore
		Geographically and historically, Bennington is truly a "special place where Vermont begins." Bennington is surrounded by the lush forested beauty of the Green Mountain and Taconic Mountain ranges, and borders the 350,000-acre Green Mountain National Forest, yet is only a short drive from both New York's Capital District and the cultural Berkshires of Massachusetts.
		Bennington has a rich cultural heritage, beginning with the Native Americans drawn by an abundance of fish and game in and along the area's numerous waterways.
		Visitors may gain a better appreciation of Bennington's rich heritage by visiting a number of places within the town such as the Bennington Battle Monument, the Old First Church, the Bennington Museum, the Park-McCullough House, Bennington College, Southern Vermont College and three covered bridges.
	www.benningtonvt.net /history (394 words)

	Bennington Vermont Real Estate town travel and tourism VT History Bennington VT USA
		The historic town of Bennington in southwestern Vermont was chartered in 1749 and grew on the shores of the Walloomsac River.
		Bennington is a commercial center for the surrounding agricultural area and comprises the villages of Bennington, Old Bennington, and North Bennington.
		Bennington is named for Benning Wentworth, a British governor of New Hampshire, and is home to the William H. Morse State Airport, The Bennington Banner daily newspaper, and Pennysaver Press weekly newspaper are published here.
	www.vtliving.com /towns/bennington (387 words)

	USNews.com: America's Best Colleges 2007: Bennington College: Mission
		The College's commitment to learning across the disciplines extends to the faculty, who teach what is uppermost in their minds, exploring new pursuits as well as ongoing areas of study and work.
		Bennington is grounded in the conviction that as a college education develops students' professional capacities, it should also prepare them to be deeply thoughtful and actively engaged citizens of the world.
		Bennington's curriculum is shaped by the diverse range of the faculty's experience and expertise, including all of the traditional liberal arts disciplines and the visual and performing arts.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/edu/college/directory/brief/drmiss_3682_brief.php (252 words)

	National CrossTalk -- Vol. 10 / No. 3 -- Summer 2002
		One of three essay questions included on the Bennington College application is this: Design a structure or series of structures to define a play area that creates the thrill of the unknown.
		Bennington's on-campus undergraduate enrollment has increased to 537 this past academic year, and is projected to be 585 for the coming school year, just shy of the school's maximum capacity of 620.
		Bennington even gets high marks from painter and performance poet Carol Diehl, though she was shocked-and disappointed-that her teaching contract wasn't renewed this spring, after four years.
	www.highereducation.org /crosstalk/ct0302/news0702-on_its_own_terms.shtml (3217 words)

	2003 GSA Annual Meeting - Geoscience Horizons - PR - Bennington College Student to Present Research at GSA
		BENNINGTON, VT-Bennington College student Megan Adcock-of Waldorf, MD-has been asked to present her paper Amber Preparation for Scientific Study: The Case of Arkansas Amber, at the prestigious Geological Society of America's conference November 2-5, 2003, at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle.
		Bennington College, a nationally recognized, liberal arts college with enrollment of 750 students (600 undergraduate, 150 graduate), is located on 550 acres in the Green Mountains of southwestern Vermont.
		The College offers a full range of study, with programs in the humanities, natural sciences, mathematics, social science, and visual and performing arts, as well as a five-year Bachelor's/Master's degree in teaching.
	www.geosociety.org /meetings/2003/prBennington.htm (430 words)

	The Virgin of Bennington
		One of the reasons I had chosen Bennington was that, though it had a few male graduate students in dance and drama, it was a women's college, and I assumed this would allow me to study free of the distractions and social failures I had endured in a coed high school.
		Years after I had left college and the East Coast, I awoke once in the middle of the night, startled by the memory of a long-forgotten event that loomed up in a vast darkness: a small illuminated space revealed me standing in a dorm room at Bennington with my lover.
		She, like my other friends at Bennington, was puzzled by my lack of interest in sexual exploration, but generally accepted the only explanation I could give, that I simply was not ready.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/n/norris-01bennington.html (4979 words)

	Bennington College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bennington College was founded in 1932 as a women's college focusing on arts, sciences, and humanities.
		Bennington is known for leading trends in art and literature, and for welcoming unconventional artists and thinkers.
		According to the official college website, "all students are encouraged to consider requesting grades for at least two years (or 64 credits) of their study at Bennington so that a GPA might be produced upon graduation." There are no competitive sports teams, fraternities or sororities, ROTC, or school mascots.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bennington_College (663 words)

	Bennington, Vermont History and Lore
		Geographically and historically, Bennington is truly a "special place where Vermont begins." Bennington is surrounded by the lush forested beauty of the Green Mountain and Taconic Mountain ranges, and borders the 350,000-acre Green Mountain National Forest, yet is only a short drive from both New York's Capital District and the cultural Berkshires of Massachusetts.
		Bennington has a rich cultural heritage, beginning with the Native Americans drawn by an abundance of fish and game in and along the area's numerous waterways.
		Bennington's long tradition of manufacturing was stimulated by a ready availability of both water power and natural resources.
	www.bennington.com /history (394 words)

	Graduate Programs at Bennington College
		Bennington College offers MFA candidates in dance, drama, and music a unique opportunity to further develop their artistic vision in an environment that is both supportive and rigorous.
		Bennington College is accredited by the New England Association of Schools & Colleges, Inc. Bennington College does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, or disability.
		Bennington offers a progressive approach to teacher education, with three different program offerings: a two year, graduate level MAT track, a combined five-year BA/MAT track--both of which also lead to teacher licensure--, and a one-year MAT track for teachers who already hold certification.
	schools.gradschools.com /graduate-schools/Bennington-College.html (539 words)

	Preserve America Community: Bennington, Vermont
		Bennington, Vermont (population 15,473) was chartered and named in 1749 by New Hampshire Governor Benning Wentworth, the first town in the territory now known as Vermont.
		This militia later played a crucial role at the Battle of Bennington on August 16, 1777, a prelude to the surrender of British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga, leading directly to the success of the Revolution.
		Bennington's long tradition of manufacturing was stimulated by the availability of both water power and natural resources.
	www.preserveamerica.gov /benningtonVT.html (340 words)

	STW Best Practices: Postsecondary Linkages - Community College of Vermont
		College Start students enroll in the course as a group and explore academic and career interests, personality types and learning styles, and write resumes and practice interviewing techniques.
		While their progress is monitored, College Start students are fully integrated into the courses in which they enroll and are expected to meet the same standards as any other college student.
		The increase in self-confidence inside the college classroom from semester one to semester three is readily apparent.
	www.state.vt.us /stw/stwbppostsecccvbenn.html (835 words)

	Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures: Registration
		The Immersion Weekend is held at Bennington College, with Friday afternoon registration and Sunday afternoon departure.
		Credits earned at Bennington College are transferable only at the discretion of the receiving school.
		All workshops are led by Bennington College faculty.
	kaplan.bennington.edu /pro/reg.html (89 words)

	Bennington's higher price of education - Bennington College - includes related article on Elizabeth Coleman Insight on ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Since its founding in 1932 on the 550-acre Bennington, Vt., estate of the Jennings family, Bennington College has been known nationally as a liberal arts institution -- emphasis on the arts.
		In part to address its burgeoning expenses and in part to reinvigorate its intellectual capital, Bennington announced a sweeping curriculum redesign last summer, sending its students, faculty and alumni -- not to mention the rest of academia -- into a state of shock.
		Coleman and the trustees were troubled by the existence of academic divisions that seemed to separate rather than coalesce the various disciplines and by the college's tradition of self-governance for students and faculty.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n45_v10/ai_15922973 (780 words)

	Cameo Wood @ Bennington College
		It is Bennington's nature to be ephemeral and therefore, this webpage can only collect impressions of past moments, and I hope it does indeed enlighten and amuse.
		The Plan Essay is the cornerstone of the Bennington education, and can be viewed as an alternative to the act of declaring a major at other colleges.
		It includes a schedule of classes the student and her faculty advisors decide upon, as well as a written essay detailing what it is that she wishes to study.
	student.bennington.edu /~cameo (234 words)

	Science and Mathematics at Bennington College
		At Bennington, science and math students work closely with active professional scientists and have full access to well-equipped research facilities and labs.
		What’s special at Bennington is that this is true from the day you walk into your first science or math class.
		And, of course, science and math students, like all Bennington students, work with their teachers to design their own individualized course of study.
	faculty.bennington.edu /~science (274 words)

	Newcomb
		The impact of the college experience was made famous by Theodore Newcomb's classic Bennington Study--an examination of the political attitudes of the entire population of Bennington College.
		Today Bennington College is coed and tends to attract applicants who are aware of its politically liberal reputation.
		But in 1935, it was a women's college and most of the students came from politically conservative families--who, be it noted, could afford to send their daughters to an expensive college in the middle of history's worst economic depression.
	www2.lewisu.edu /~gazianjo/newcomb.htm (688 words)

	AAUP: Neil Rappaport Lecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The AAUP committee concluded that in 1994 financial exigency was the pretext for a radical transformation of the structure of the college.
		We know that the college has replaced many of the eliminated positions—with people, by the way, for the most part teaching the same courses my fired colleagues taught—in a process not surprisingly without any semblance of consultation or widespread recruitment, conducted by the president herself—in some cases, we believe before the firings.
		You have been told by the college’s public relations machine that the changes were "necessary" for the survival of the college, both to address a self-defined financial exigency and to open the educational arteries which had been.
	www.aaup.org /AAUP/protectrights/sharedgovernance/rappaport.htm (1788 words)

	Bennington College Hosts Multi-National Conference on Transitions to Democracy
		BENNINGTON, Vt., Oct. 11, 2005 - As part of its major new curricular initiative, the Democracy Project, Bennington College is bringing together distinguished leaders and scholars from five nations that have undergone a noteworthy democratic transition.
		Bennington College, a nationally recognized liberal arts college with enrollment of 720 students (570 undergraduate, 150 graduate), is located on 550 acres in the Green Mountains of southwestern Vermont.
		The College offers a full range of study, with programs in the humanities, natural sciences, mathematics, social sciences, and visual and performing arts, as well as a five-year Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Teaching.
	www.collegenews.org /x4932.xml (526 words)

	Bennington College
		In the Spring of 1991, one of our consultants was engaged by the College to assist in a project to replace the antiquated, outgrown system then in place.
		We assisted the College by performing a needs assessment and financial feasibility study, developing a RFP for a new system, including voice mail and automated attendant functions, evaluating vendor responses and helping oversee the installation project of a Northern Telecom Meridian system.
		More recently, in 1997, we have assisted the College in extending its telecommunications service to include voice, data and video communication services to the residence halls.
	www.compassconsulting.com /clients/benn.html (116 words)

	US Universities and Colleges Program - Bennington College
		At the same time that Bennington students learn how to design experiments, write essays and novels, and compose music, they also learn to take responsibility for planning their own educations.
		Over the course of their careers at Bennington, students write and rewrite their plans of study through ongoing conversations with their teachers, their peers, and the work in which they discover their intellectual and creative passions.
		However, the completion of a thesis is not meant to mark the end of the student's education; instead, students are challenged to frame their specialized/focused knowledge within its larger contexts-to return to the kind of open-ended exploration they pursued at the beginning of their college career.
	www.usuniversities.com /listingsp3.cfm/listing/2266 (427 words)

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