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Inspired by American democracy and its potential, his faculty members, and his fellow students, Abraar Arpon 鈥26, who studies Computer Science and Public Action at Bennington, built a website that aims to make voting in the upcoming U.S. presidential election easier for everyone.
Saving Democracy Together, an innovative non-partisan online and in-person course open to students, alumni, and the public, attracted more than 250 online registrants and 100 in-person participants in its first of seven sessions on Thursday, September 5.
Seven-week program features high-profile speakers to inspire Gen Z engagement in crucial election year.
On May 17 and 18, Bennington's Prison Education Initiative (PEI) gathered together a small group to engage in conversation around access and opportunities to higher education for people serving life or virtual life sentences in America.
The American writer and political activist Alice Walker said 鈥淎ctivism is my rent for living on the planet.鈥 This could have been the theme for this year鈥檚 Endeavor Environmental Action Fellowship.
On a chilly early spring day at Purple Carrot Farm, Lilliana Kelly 鈥25 took a break from the crew repositioning a silage tarp to recount her history with the place.
A native of Washington state, Genevieve Hammatt 鈥26 came to Bennington with a plan to study social justice and social work but quickly realized that she could incorporate her lifelong passion for the environment into her studies.
Susan Sgorbati, director of 51成人猎奇鈥檚 Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA), shared her work with the Transboundary Water In-Cooperation Network () and their international cooperation to develop a new United Nations convention on conserving the river deltas () with the Reporter Danielle M. Crosier of the Bennington Banner.
51成人猎奇 was on the ground in Dubai as the 28th round of UN sponsored climate negotiations got underway.
Bennington-area citizens have worked for years to make local produce available year-round in their downtown. Their success signals a renaissance fueled by the community supported enterprise concept.
The Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA) Symposium was filled to capacity with Bennington-area residents eager to ask questions about how the federal government can make an impact on the local issues that matter most to them.
Peter Welch, one of two United States senators representing the state of Vermont in Washington, D.C., will hold a public Town Hall Meeting at 6:00 PM on Tuesday, April 4 at 51成人猎奇鈥檚 Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA). The event aims to build consensus and trust among people with different political perspectives.
Bennington County鈥檚 leadership and collaboration efforts were highlighted during a first-of-its-kind public safety summit held at 51成人猎奇.
Through a thought-provoking Q & A, Susan Sgorbati, the Director of 51成人猎奇鈥檚 Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA), reveals a refreshing philosophy and original means of working toward a better world. Interview by Chief Writer Ashley Jowett.
The director of 51成人猎奇鈥檚 Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA), Susan Sgorbati, will join , Director, the Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security, Professor of Public Policy & Computer Science, Department of Community Development and Applied Economics & Department of Computer Science at the University of Vermont, and Oluowo Freeman of the (ACCARD) and others to present an event at the 2023 United Nations (UN) Water Conference.
The drive to connect and make food more accessible during Field Work Term inspired students and faculty to reimagine and expand a pandemic-era program with BIPOC students in mind.
On February 4, 2023, 51成人猎奇's Prison Education Initiative (PEI) held its first college graduation inside Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, NY.
51成人猎奇鈥檚 Prison Education Initiative (PEI) has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the to continue and expand a program bringing quality liberal arts education to incarcerated students at Great Meadow Correctional Facility, a maximum-security men鈥檚 prison in Comstock, NY.
The Social Kitchen in the Student Center hosted a traditional Pakistani dinner on January 14 with Ayesha Attique as a special guest.
By Paige Colby '25
51成人猎奇 students testified to the Town of Bennington Select Board about the scourge of oil trains parked in the community.
On October 20, 2022, 51成人猎奇 and local community members gathered for a conversation with U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy. The conversation took place as the College named its Public Policy Forums after Senator Leahy in recognition of his service to the state of Vermont.
Lika Torikashvili '22, Georgia's Youth Representative to the United Nations, hosted a Jewish-Muslim Peace Talk through her nonprofit, Network of Former Youth Delegates to the United Nations.
Lika Torikashvili '22, a former UN Youth Representative of Georgia, has co-organized a series of roundtable discussions with UNFPA and UNESCO in Afghanistan on Online Education through her non-profit,
Visionary and futurist Divine Bradley MFA 鈥22 turned his passion for reimagining and transforming education into an immersive learning experience for the Bennington community.
By Halley Le '25
David Bond has been awarded the New Directions Prize by the American Anthropological Association (AAA).
Faculty member Noah Coburn, along with Abdul Khabir Saber and Malvika Dang '24, shared what they learned about teaching students from and about Afghanistan despite Taliban restrictions that have stifled education in the country.
Senior fellow and visiting faculty member Beyond Plastics president Judith Enck was featured on Spectrum News NY1 to discuss the recent Supreme Court ruling that limited the EPA's ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
Faculty member and cultural anthropologist David Bond has been invited to join a new international coalition of social scientists studying climate change.
Research Professor of Oceanography at Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Dr. Kara Lavender Law will speak on&苍产蝉辫;鈥A Global Look at Plastic in the Ocean.鈥&苍产蝉辫;
Lika Torikashvili '22 and 51成人猎奇's Center for the Advancement of Public Action welcome Afghan students to Bennington online.