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  Marlboro College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Marlboro is a small, coed liberal arts college located in the foothills of the Green Mountains of southern Vermont.
Marlboro offers a complete range of liberal arts study in over 30 academic areas and in international studies - from theater to physics, psychology to painting, creative writing to biochemistry.
What sets Marlboro apart from most schools is the individualized course of study each student creates, culminating in intensive one-to-one tutorials with faculty, research and the development of independent projects within the Plan of Concentration.
www.vtcolleges.org /vtcolleges/mc   (210 words)

  
 Marlboro College : Resources
Marlboro's mission "to teach students to think clearly and to learn independently" is best served when students experience a wide variety of ideas, opinions, and cultural backgrounds.
Marlboro seeks, then, to sustain a community diverse in the background experience, interests, ideas, and cultural practice of its members and to engage one another constructively toward that end.
It is the policy of Marlboro College not to discriminate in its admissions program, student services or hiring practices on the basis of race, creed, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnic origin, age or disability.
www.marlboro.edu /jobs   (257 words)

  
 Marlboro College Historical Society Interviews
Her father owned around 500 acres in Marlboro, and they were summer neighbors of Walter Hendricks, who lived in Hendricks House and owned that portion of what is now the college campus.
The college was incorporated by the Vermont legislator in the late fall of 1946.
At college parties, one of the high spots was when Roland got rather full of gin, of which he was fond of, and then told New Hampshire stories in dialect.
www.americanfeedmagazine.com /Marlborohistoricalsociety/dickjuddinterview.htm   (2616 words)

  
 Marlboro College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marlboro College is an alternative liberal-arts college in Marlboro, Vermont, USA.
Marlboro College was founded in 1946 by returning World War II veterans on Potash Hill in Marlboro, Vermont.
The results of this work are defended in an oral examination before two Marlboro professors, and one outside evaluator who has expertise in the student's field of study but is not connected with the college.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marlboro_College   (495 words)

  
 EPSCoR Proposal for a Drop Test Facility
If Marlboro College were in a position to develop climbing equipment standards and the test equipment, it would be able to provide relevant hands-on problems that are accessible to students with a semester of college physics.
Marlboro College already supports a small observatory, which aside from student research projects has a steady stream of elementary and high school groups who come to see the stars.
Marlboro College itself is a tiny (260 students, 35 faculty) liberal arts college in southern Vermont.
akbar.marlboro.edu /~mahoney/DropTest/DropProposal.html   (1098 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Top 10 Most Politically Liberal Colleges
While New College especially embraces the liberal mindset--the student body is a "motley bunch of (mainly) leftist, spoiled Americans kids," as one student put it--that doesn't mean that different views aren't tolerated.
One student asserts that "at times, the political liberalism of the student body is undoubtedly stifling to fundamentalist Christians and Republicans"-- not that Reed fosters a thriving population of right-wingers.
Marlboro was started by Walter Hendricks for veterans of World War II who returned from the front and wanted a rigorous education rooted in an ideal of student independence.
encarta.msn.com /college_article_LiberalColleges/Top_10_Politically_Liberal_Colleges.html   (864 words)

  
 US Universites and Colleges Program - Marlboro College
University Attributes: Marlboro was founded in 1946 by veterans returning from fighting in World War II who wanted to participate in the structuring of their education.
Marlboro continues to evolve, but the college remains unchanged in its objective: to teach students how to think and how to learn, how to analyze and how to synthesize, how to form opinions and how to defend them.
Marlboro College's Mission Statement: The goal of Marlboro College is to teach students to think clearly and to learn independently through engagement in a structured program of liberal studies.
www.usuniversities.com /listingsp3.cfm/listing/2272   (211 words)

  
 Marlboro College - College Closeup
Marlboro’s goal is to teach students to think clearly and learn independently, develop a command of concise and correct writing, and aspire to academic excellence, all while participating responsibly in a self-governing community.
Marlboro confers the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in thirty-three areas of study, which can be combined in an almost limitless number of ways.
Undertaken by all Marlboro students in their junior and senior years, the plan is the collection of related projects and papers that form the final product of the student’s academic work at Marlboro.
www.petersons.com /ugchannel/code/idd.asp?sponsor=&inunId=7323   (1598 words)

  
 Franconia College Legacy Fund
Marlboro was founded in 1946 by men returning from fighting in World War II who wanted to participate in the structuring of their education.
Undertaken by all Marlboro students in their junior and senior years, the plan is a two-year pursuit, focused, often cross-disciplinary, culminating in a project that is designed by the student and carried out with close guidance from one or more faculty sponsors.
The College's 7:1 student-faculty ratio sparks dynamic exchanges between students and faculty members both in and out of the classroom and fosters a close-knit community in which academic work is respected and ideas are appreciated.
franconia.to /fcgrants/college2.htm   (1694 words)

  
 HURON UNIVERSITY USA IN LONDON - Association with Marlboro College, Vermont
Since 1997, Huron University London and Marlboro College in Vermont have been engaged in an exciting and innovative arrangement which makes the educational resources of both institutions available to students at either school.
Marlboro College is rated as one of the top undergraduate liberal art colleges in the United States.
Marlboro and Huron are both small independent, liberal art colleges with a strong emphasis on the personal development of individual students.
www.huron.ac.uk /marlboro_college.html   (412 words)

  
 Consortium of Vermont Colleges-Marlboro College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In their freshman and sophomore years, students are encouraged to study broadly in the arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences.
Writing is a fundamental component of a Marlboro education.
Students' final two years at Marlboro are spent in classes with fewer than 10 students, in one-to-one tutorials with faculty and in independent study.
www.vtcolleges.org /vtcolleges/mc/mc_currriculum.html   (264 words)

  
 Project Descriptions - Marlboro College
Marlboro College and The Graduate Center programs are accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC).
The Graduate Center of Marlboro College is offering graduate level programs only, and anticipates that extending Stafford Loans to those students who wish to study wholly online will increase the availability of internet-focused professional development to those who must borrow in order to complete their studies.
Marlboro College has already conducted the baseline data survey of their distance education courses, and look forward to improving their pilot efforts through this project.
www.ed.gov /programs/disted/descmarl.html   (389 words)

  
 Out In The Mountains : Feature - Marlboro's Queer Homecoming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Marlboro College community members who at one time may have sat in the bleachers at high school homecoming dances – or stayed home – got to strut their stuff at a dance created for everyone: The Marlboro Pride Queer Homecoming Dance.
According to Jodi Clark, advisor to Marlboro Pride, the homecoming dance was both a follow-up and response to the success of the group’s first party last year, The Gender Bender Ball.
Meghan Chapman is a freshman at Marlboro College.
www.mountainpridemedia.org /oitm/issues/2003/01jan2003/fea03_marlboro.htm   (906 words)

  
 Vermont Business Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Marlboro College named Ellen McCulloch-Lovell, a leader in the arts, education and public policy in Washington D.C. and Vermont, to be its eighth president.
A 1969 graduate of Bennington College, McCulloch-Lovell served as executive director of the Vermont Council on the Arts from 1975 to 1983, during which time she co-created the Governors Institutes, a program that gives high school students the opportunity to work with artists, scientists and international experts in summer institutes.
Marlboro College is a private, independent, liberal arts college of 330 students in southeastern Vermont.
www.vermontbiz.com /business_info/pressrelease_detail.cfm?PRID=339   (825 words)

  
 Opportunities in the USA - Marlboro College
The academic partnership between Huron and Marlboro College in Vermont offers Huron students an opportunity for classroom study in the USA.
Marlboro’s College sits on a wooded hillside in the Green Mountains of southern Vermont.
The close relationship between Marlboro and Huron means that study abroad in the States is simple and affordable for all students.
www.huron.ac.uk /student_resources/USAOpportunities_Marlboro.html   (148 words)

  
 Rutland Herald: Rutland Vermont News & Information
MARLBORO — Molly Fox, a freshman studying dance at Marlboro College, knew she would like the college's new performing art venue when she noticed the unusually high ceilings.
Nestled near a small wetlands and a rocky hill on the college campus, the new venue brings the college's music and dance programs into a 21st century environment, including soundproofed rooms, a flexible dance floor and digital recording studios.
College spokeswoman Elena Sharnoff said the two were so impressed by their kids' passion for the school that they agreed to underwrite it.
www.rutlandherald.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051010/NEWS/510100389/1003   (492 words)

  
 Ascribe Higher Education News Service: Marlboro College Bucks Trend and Builds On Itself.@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
MARLBORO, Vt., July 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- As liberal arts colleges across the country are shutting their doors due to a weakened economy and trouble surviving, Marlboro College continues to expand its campus.
All of those colleges were non profit, regionally accredited schools.
But as Marlboro students are off for the summer, the sound...
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:88247762&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (206 words)

  
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Gifts to Marlboro's Annual Fund, which includes gifts to the Alumni Fund and Parents Fund, contribute immediately to the College's operating budget and directly support students and faculty in their intellectual collaboration.
It is invested, either by Marlboro or a trustee chosen by the donor, and the earnings are used to fulfill the purpose or purposes for which the fund was created.
Marlboro works with each donor, on an individual basis, to prepare guidelines for the administration of each named endowed fund.
alumni.marlboro.edu /annual_giving   (451 words)

  
 The Chronicle: Students: May 5, 2000
Two-thirds of Marlboro's 290 students, and nearly half of its 40 faculty members, have signed a petition asking the private college to abandon the brochure and the rest of a provocative new marketing campaign.
It opens by stating that "most college students would hate it here" because "you have to be hell-bent on designing your own education." The book is designed to look like a student's final project (known as a "plan"), complete with hand-scrawled notes in the margins and a coffee stain.
LeBlanc, the president, acknowledges that the descriptions of students in Marlboro's publications are glib, but he thinks they help the college stand out "in a very provocative way." A study done for the college by a consultant found that as a high-school student, the typical Marlboro applicant receives unsolicited direct mail from 120 colleges.
chronicle.com /free/v46/i35/35a05001.htm   (1897 words)

  
 Marlboro College Graduate Center, Brattleboro, VT
As such, she is responsible for all Collegis client activities and distance deliverables at Ocean County College, where she is leading the establishment of a One Day Per Week RN Program that blends web-based courses with low-residency clinical experiences.
Keenan served as the Director of Academic Programs at Marlboro College Graduate Center in Brattleboro, VT. She was responsible for co-designing and directing five master's level programs in Internet technologies, including curriculum design, faculty hiring and supervision, staff supervision for marketing, admissions, information technology, and registrar operations.
Prior to joining Marlboro in 1998, Art gathered over ten years of senior leadership experience in healthcare and distribution corporations where he was responsible for the implementation of integrated IT solutions, acquisitions, start-ups, restructurings, and strategic planning.
www.gradcenter.marlboro.edu /academics/faculty.html   (1598 words)

  
 ~mmb: Creative Design : Mission Statement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Persons School operates as a separate campus of Marlboro College, and while it has established missions and structures that reflect the Marlboro philosophy, it operates independently of the liberal arts academic programs on the main campus in Marlboro.
Marlboro College seeks students with intellectual promise, a high degree of motivation, self-discipline, personal stability, social concern, and the ability and desire to contribute to the College community.
Marlboro College's mission is to help students think clearly, learn independently, strive for academic excellence and take part in a community that values democratic participation.
bob.marlboro.edu /~mmb/cd_mission.shtml   (286 words)

  
 The Chronicle: 2/20/2004: Is the Party Over for E-Commerce Courses?
Marlboro is an arty, liberal-arts institution nestled in the hills of Vermont with an enrollment of 315 undergraduates.
Some college officials and Brattleboro residents, noting the culture of Marlboro, were skeptical that its first graduate program could succeed when it was started in 1997.
Marlboro is known for being strong in the fine arts, offering concentrations in such fields as painting, sculpture, dance, and ceramics.
chronicle.com /free/v50/i24/24a02901.htm?cct   (2030 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Fun College Trivia
Add this to your mental trivia treasure chest: Marlboro College writing professor Wyn Cooper saw his poem "Fun" turned into a number-one single by Sheryl Crow.
In Columbia, Kentucky, Lindsey Wilson College's Phillips Hall is allegedly haunted by the ghost of a former student.
Davron Michaels, director of the Correllian College Project, says the pagan community needs more trained educators and clergy because their community has a growing number of people who need a place to learn and build their specialized knowledge.
encarta.msn.com /college_article_CollegeTrivia/Fun_College_Trivia.html   (768 words)

  
 Paper #1
Marlboro College was founded in 1946 by men who fought in World War II and "who wanted to participate in the structuring of their education," states Marlboro College's web site (1).
Marlboro College's objectives are "to teach students how to think and how to learn, how to analyze and how to synthesize, how to form opinions and how to defend them" (1).
Marlboro College did not even exist when Hughes was at Lincoln University from 1925 to 1929.
www.lincoln.edu /english/composition/paper1.htm   (1652 words)

  
 College student brings medical service to Calcutta slums - Boston.com - Vt. - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He returned to the United States that September and enrolled as a freshman at Marlboro College, a very difficult adjustment in that his task was "to sit on a hill and discuss and intellectualize and debate about things that seem not nearly as important as being with people when they're dying."
Since then, a young man who is still just 24 and just graduating from Marlboro this spring, has established an international charitable organization that has a mobile medical unit -- a van that travels the streets in and around Calcutta and provides free medical care to young street people.
The family splits its time between their home near the entrance to Marlboro College and Cambridge, Mass.
www.boston.com /news/local/vermont/articles/2005/05/21/college_student_brings_medical_service_to_calcutta_slums?mode=PF   (991 words)

  
 College Search and Information - AOL Research & Learn
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The film Disappearances employed Marlboro alumni and current students in its making, shot in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.
Alumni, Parents and Friends are invited to attend this regional gathering in Seattle, WA on Sunday, April 23, 2006 at the Westin Seattle.
Alumni, Parents and Friends are invited to attend this Marlboro gathering in Portland, OR on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 at McMenamins Kennedy School.
alumni.marlboro.edu   (242 words)

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