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Item Bennington College Fifth-Year Interim Report prepared for the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools & Colleges, Inc.(2014-08) Bennington CollegeInstitutional Overview. Areas for Special Emphasis: Financial Stability, Deferred Maintenance, Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment, Strategic Planning. Standards Narrative. Reflective Essay. Plans. Appendices.Item Bennington College Report for Consideration to the Commission on Institutions of Higher Learning of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges(2013-01-15) Bennington CollegeThe following report was drafted by a core team of senior administrative staff members in consultation with the President. As directed by the Commission, the narrative focuses on two areas: (1) implementing a comprehensive approach to institutional effectiveness and assessment; and (2) implementing strategic planning.Item Bennington College Self Study(1994-03) Bennington CollegeThe academic strengths of the College remain inseparable from its originating ideas: students taking responsibility for designing their education; the central role of academic counseling; the immersion of students from the outset in the center of the working life of the faculty; the continual pursuit and elaborations of the interrelationships between life inside the classroom and life in the world (the Field Work Term, emphasis on the practitioner teacher, teaching and learning as performing arts). In those instances where the college works, the power and intensity of the educational experience remain formidable. The academic weaknesses of the College are: the recalcitrant rigidity of the divisions and the subsequent problems for faculty and students in putting together educational programs that transcend divisions; the unevenness in the quality of the counseling experience; the excesses of the focus on the individual and, conversely, the inadequacies in the experience of shared purposes and of social responsibility; an absence of uniformly high standards with respect to the demands made on students; and the freshman year experience.Item Bennington College Self Study Prepared for the New England Commission of Higher Education(2019-08) Bennington CollegeItem Bennington College Self-Study for The New England Association of Schools and Colleges(1999-11) Bennington CollegeItem Report by Bennington College to the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education New England Association of Schools and Colleges Prepared for a Focused Evaluation October 1-3, 1989(1989) Bennington CollegeOn April 27, 1984, the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education (CIHE) placed Bennington College on warning status, requested various reports (on applications, admissions, enrollment, financial condition, and fundraising), and mandated an evaluation visit in 1985 to review the warning status. Because of a change in the College's presidential leadership , that visit was postponed to the Fall of 1986. As a result of the report by the 1986 visiting team chaired by Richard P. Traina, President of Clark University, the College was asked to submit yearly reports on applications, admissions, enrollments, and financial matters, and to prepare for a focused visit in the Fall of 1989. The requested yearly reports were submitted on December 29, 1987 and November 21, 1988. At its meeting of March 2, 1989 the CIHE accepted the 1988 yearly report and confirmed the evaluation visit of October 1-2, 1989 focused "on the College's success in addressing its fiscal problems and the impact of those problems on the ability of the institution to offer high quality academic programs." In addition, the College was asked specifically to report on: 1. annual giving and plans for the capital campaign; 2. plans for securing the long-term financial strength of the College and the projected growth of the endowment; and 3. plans for correcting deferred maintenance.Item Report from Bennington College to the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education New England Association of Schools and Colleges(1991-11-25) Bennington CollegeThe fall of 1991 finds Bennington College at a crossroads in its quest for long-term financial stability. Most signs are extremely promising: the Capital campaign is on target; the quality of the undergraduate students Bennington attracts continues to improve; efforts to achieve a modest expansion in graduate programs have met with success; and new ventures, the most exciting of which is the College's impending association with Jacob's Pillow, are on the horizon. Not surprisingly, the one discordant note is undergraduate enrollment. Yet, even on this score , there is reason to believe the College is rebounding.Item Report from Bennington College to the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education New England Association of Schools and Colleges(1990-12-01) Bennington CollegeThe report by the 1986 visiting team chaired by Richard P. Traina, President of Clark University, asked that Bennington submit yearly reports on applications, admissions, enrollments, and financial matters, and to prepare for a focused visit in the Fall of 1989. The requested yearly reports were submitted on December 29, 1987 and November 21, 1988. Bennington prepared an institutional report during the summer of 1989, and in October, 1989, a team chaired by Kathryn McCarthy, Professor of Physics at Tufts University, conducted a focused visit. As a result of that report and visit, at its meeting on March 2, 1990 the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education: accepted the report submitted by the College; asked that the College continue to submit Annual Reports on Finance and Enrollment; confirmed the scheduling of evaluation for Fall, 1993; and the next comprehensive asked "that the self-study undertaken in advance of the evaluation give particular attention to the institution's success in achieving financial wellbeing, as measured in part by its ability to address long-standing concerns resulting from deferred maintenance."Item Report from Bennington College to the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education New England Association of Schools and Colleges(1992-11-20) Bennington CollegeSince last year's report to NEASC there have been a number of changes at Bennington College. In recognition of the absence of desired growth in undergraduate enrollment and an unwelcome increase in institutional financial aid awards, the Board of Trustees at its April 1992 meeting mandated permanent expenditure cuts. It also directed the president and the deans to devise an enrollment strategy which would lead to an annualized enrollment of 550 undergraduates by 1996/97. Finally, it authorized additional spending from Capital Campaign proceeds for the period during which the abovementioned actions will be carried out. The Board statement on these matters is attached as Appendix D. The goal of these Board actions is the attainment by 1996/97 of financial stability which foresees a reasonable increase in undergraduate enrollment, a decrease in institutional financial aid and no budgetary reliance on the Capital Campaign other than the spending of endowment . earnings. Bennington has taken the first steps toward that goal. Appendix E. Steering Committee Report Faculty Reduction RecommendationsItem Report from Bennington College to the New England Association of Schools and Colleges(1988-01-01) Bennington CollegeBennington College began the current academic year on an optimistic note, and with good reason. The financial and enrollment information contained in the accompanying tables makes clear that the College has turned an important corner in stabilizing its current situation, in identifying areas that require more and sustained attention, and in laying the reasonable groundwork for a more secure future. In all of this, the College has retained the essential features of its educational program, features that have led all the New England Association teams that have visited Bennington to remark on the educational vitality of the institution and the importance of preserving its unique place in American higher education. This narrative will identify four different features of the current situation that provide the grounds for optimism. Attention will be directed first to changes in the College's administrative personnel. Though these changes are not reflected directly in the statistical information contained in the accompanying tables, they are crucial to an understanding of the College's improved situation. Detailed information on the remaining three (applications and enrollment, annual budgets, and planning guidelines for the near-term future) is contained in the accompanying tables and will be discussed in turn.Item Report from Bennington College to the New England Association of Schools and Colleges(1988-12-01) Bennington CollegeOver the past year, Bennington College has continued to improve its financial and enrollment picture. As the accompanying data indicate, we are in the midst of our fourth consecutive balanced operating budget, our applications have continued to increase, and our enrollment has shown steady, though moderate, growth. At the same time, the College has been able to reorganize three important administrative offices (Development, Student Affairs , and Admissions), to develop new educational programs, and to lay the groundwork for significantly increased arenas for fund-raising and a capital campaign. After a discussion of the accompanying data on finances and enrollment (following immediately in Sections I and II) attention will be directed to recent developments in these other areas. Such developments provide the context from which any evaluation of the College's last three years of stability and continued improvement, and the prospects for continued improvement over the next five years, must proceed.