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The first class of eighty-seven women arrived on campus in 1932. The college was the first to include the visual and performing arts as full-fledged elements of the liberal arts curriculum. Every year since the college began in 1932, every Bennington College student has engaged in internships and volunteer opportunities each winter term.
The Pennington School was founded in 1838 during the Second Great Awakening as the Methodist Episcopal Male Seminary, a college preparatory school for boys, in order to secure "the education of the physical, the training of the mental, and the grounding of the soul in character." Pennington officially became a coeducational institution, The ...
Bennington College is a progressive four-year liberal arts college ranked 89 in Tier 1 by U.S. News College Rankings. Southern Vermont College was a private, four-year liberal arts college offering a career-directed curriculum, but has since closed indefinitely following the 2018–2019 academic year. Northeastern Baptist College opened in 2013.
Pennington raised funds for the abolition movement on the public lecture circuit in England. Pennington wrote and published what is considered the first history of blacks in the United States, The Origin and History of the Colored People (1841). [2] His memoir, The Fugitive Blacksmith, was first published in 1849 in London.
Bennington, founded in 1932 as a women's college, was known, and sometimes criticized, as a free-spirited and innovative place with nationally respected faculty, especially in its arts and writing programs, and affluent students. The college did not have required courses, majors, a college song, social clubs, or college sports.
Pennington married his college girlfriend, Robin Hampton, on March 1, 2001. He famously brought his Jets' playbook on his honeymoon . [ 30 ] The couple have three sons together, one of whom, Cole , spent three seasons as a quarterback on the Marshall football roster [ 31 ] [ 32 ] [ 33 ] before transferring to Gardner–Webb after the 2024 ...
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In addition to expanding the Dandini Campus, the college established the William N. Pennington Applied Technology Center (March 1999), Meadowood Center (February 2003), the Nell J. Redfield Foundation Performing Arts Center (September 2003) and the William N. Pennington Health Science Center, located at the Redfield Campus (September 2005).