Bennington College Self Study

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dc.contributor.authorBennington College
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-12T16:47:41Z
dc.date.available2018-07-12T16:47:41Z
dc.date.issued1994-03
dc.description.abstractThe 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.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11209/12544
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectNEASCen_US
dc.subjectCommission on Institutions of Higher Educationen_US
dc.subjectNew England Association of Schools and Collegesen_US
dc.titleBennington College Self Studyen_US

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