And So We Begin A convocation podcast for a campus in quarantine No stilts, no drums, no marching band or folding chairs filled with hundreds of students, faculty and staff, no parade to a picnic on the lawn. Bennington opened the fall term with a Convocation podcast that had all […]

A conversation with president Laura R. Walker President Laura R. Walker arrived at Bennington in the middle of a global pandemic, in the midst of a racial justice revolution, in what some are calling a second Great Depression, and at the height of a higher education financial crisis. When I asked […]

Most Celebrated Magazine at CASE Last year Bennington Magazine transformed from a publication that told stories to readers to one that solicited stories from readers by asking questions and publishing the selected and edited responses in the feature section. In doing so, it became the first and only alumni magazine […]

FROM THE EDITOR It is a strange thing to be an editor of an alumni magazine at this time. Alumni magazines aren’t made to break news, and yet covering anything other than breaking news seems so misfit. Alumni magazines aren’t made to challenge or confront, and yet challenges are all […]