Goddard College is the perfect path from homeschooling to a college degree If you come from a homeschooling or unschooling background, you probably know what curiosity feels like. It lives in those questions that no one has been able to answer, the ambitious projects that are difficult to explain, the constant overlap between learning and… Continue reading Take Your Homeschool Experience Into the World
Category: Bachelor’s Degree
Socially Engaged Art Bachelors BFA – Program Introduction
The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Socially Engaged Art (BFA-SEA) supports artists to create new work that engages with communities. Faculty and students from the performing arts, visual arts, craft practices, and narrative media come together to develop collaborative projects around real issues. Students are encouraged to experiment with a range of mediums. They are… Continue reading Socially Engaged Art Bachelors BFA – Program Introduction
Decolonization: What’s Love Got to Do With It?
“Decolonization: What’s Love Got to Do With It?” is a day-long festival that takes place September 25, 2021 at Goddard College. The program examines the ongoing impact of settler colonialism, and asks how we at Goddard can contribute to movements for decolonization and Indigenous sovereignty. The title, “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” amplifies… Continue reading Decolonization: What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Family Comes First for Candelaria Norma Silva, Children’s Book Author
Candelaria Norma Silva is the type of writer that is always working. Even when not writing, she’s working (or reworking) some fresh idea in her imagination. An encounter with fellow author Delanda Coleman, who had self-published her first children’s book, More Than A Princess, brought Candelaria’s percolating children’s stories to the surface. Delanda was also… Continue reading Family Comes First for Candelaria Norma Silva, Children’s Book Author
Mike Alvarez’s Goddard Journey- The Paradox of Suicide & Creativity
Two-time Goddard graduate Mike Alvarez (IMA ’10, MFAW ’13) was awarded the prestigious Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. The fellowship honors and supports young New Americans – immigrants and children of immigrants—to use their graduate training in this country to make distinctive contributions to American life. Mike will receive up to $90,000… Continue reading Mike Alvarez’s Goddard Journey- The Paradox of Suicide & Creativity
Mamadou “Mr. Papis” Traore Brings the Goddard Model to West Africa
Goddard students seeking the path of rigorous, cultural inquiry hail from across the world. Mamadou Traore (BA EDU ’14), whose family and friends know him as “Papi,” embodies Goddard’s holistic approach to education. Originally from Senegal in West Africa, he traversed the globe to attend the Vermont campus where he earned his Bachelor of Arts… Continue reading Mamadou “Mr. Papis” Traore Brings the Goddard Model to West Africa
Love and Ogres: an interview with alum Piers Anthony
This article is updated and adapted from an interview by Dustin Byerly (BA RUP ’01) that originally appeared in Clockworks magazine in 2015. Alumnus and award-winning fantasy author Piers Anthony (BA RUP ’56), has sold over 100 books, 21 of which were on the New York Times Bestseller List. While at Goddard from 1952-1956, he… Continue reading Love and Ogres: an interview with alum Piers Anthony
President Emerita Reflects on Louise Glück’s Poetic Influence
Dear Goddard, This is an epic moment for us—what Goddard is now, what it has been, what it always will be: our DNA. As we rejoice and celebrate both affirmation of our accreditation status and our former Vermont State Poet and faculty winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, I want to share a personal… Continue reading President Emerita Reflects on Louise Glück’s Poetic Influence
Revolutionary Presence: Technologies, Collective Imagination, and Transformative Engagement
A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind. –Grace Lee Boggs A Shifting Landscape Amid pandemic the world is changing in ways that we are still learning to identify. Whether we are pixelated on screens, intertwined in global networks,… Continue reading Revolutionary Presence: Technologies, Collective Imagination, and Transformative Engagement
Activist Heather Jo Flores, author of Food Not Lawns.
Heather Jo Flores, a singer-songwriter, author and poet, permaculture activist, visual artist, and yogi, has led a far from ordinary life. Out of rough beginnings—she was a homeless youth; she comes from a low-income family; she was a high-school dropout; she was a sex worker in Santa Cruz; she was a pot trimmer—she learned to… Continue reading Activist Heather Jo Flores, author of Food Not Lawns.
Transformative Educator is a Leader in Dual Language Higher Education
In first grade, Bárbara Martínez-Griego received Ds and Fs on her report card while in other areas, such as effort, courtesy, and conduct, she always got A’s. “The only comment made -every grading period- was, “Needs to speak more English at home,” always written in red ink.” While she may not have known it in… Continue reading Transformative Educator is a Leader in Dual Language Higher Education
A Radical Alternative to Online Instruction
The sudden shift to remote instruction has caused a needed moment of critical interrogation in higher education. Colleges, universities, and the students that attend them are all making difficult choices about the Fall semester. At the heart of these decisions lies a question about the fundamental nature of education. Goddard College, a well-kept secret in the… Continue reading A Radical Alternative to Online Instruction
A Garifuna Journeys to Goddard
by Martha David, (EDU – Seattle Dual Language Concentration- Early Childhood Education ’19) BEGINNINGS OF AN EDUCATOR At age of 5 years old my mother registered me in school. She walked me to school and left me in front of the school and I had to find my way to the classroom. I spoke my… Continue reading A Garifuna Journeys to Goddard
What Uncertainty Teaches
By Polly Young-Eisendrath Originally published on March 30, 2020 Republished with permission from the author Living in the time of COVID-19 gives all of us a strong and clear taste of uncertainty. Our welfare is on the line and we are trapped at home with our questions, our vulnerabilities, and the vulnerabilities of others. Even… Continue reading What Uncertainty Teaches
The Long Walk of a Teacher
Everyday, when I get home from student teaching, I silently bring in my bag to the house. Without saying a word, I put on a hat and head back outside for a walk. I watch the bus pull up across the road, students hopping out and into the arms of their family members. I walk… Continue reading The Long Walk of a Teacher
Manifesting Goddard in Your Life
I was like many Goddard students. I discovered this remarkable student-centered pathway in the 1990’s but did not enroll until 2006. It took that long to manifest Goddard in my life, but it was well worth the discovery. I was an artist, educator and social worker in the midwest growing my tribe of five beautiful… Continue reading Manifesting Goddard in Your Life
Learning to Decolonize
The current discussion about the future of democracy in the United States is, beneath its surface, also a conversation about the preservation of a settler-colonial project. It is about assuring settler futurity. Colonization is fundamentally achieved through the material theft of land and labor and the elimination and exploitation of people and culture. Educational institutions… Continue reading Learning to Decolonize
Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism puts down roots at Goddard’s new “Village”
Read the Aug. 26th article in Seven Days Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism (VCIH) recently signed a contract with Goddard College to move its school and clinic from Montpelier to the historic Greatwood campus in Plainfield this June. VCIH will join EarthWalk Vermont, also located on the campus, for a mission-based partnership in Goddard College’s… Continue reading Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism puts down roots at Goddard’s new “Village”
The Teacher as Student: Graduate Degrees For a New Educational Era
by Bernard Bull, President of Goddard College Something new is happening in classrooms around the country. Project-based learning schools, Montessori schools, Waldorf schools, schools where every student has a personalized learning plan, and schools that are committed to creating more space for learner voice, choice, ownership, and agency are all popping up. There are more… Continue reading The Teacher as Student: Graduate Degrees For a New Educational Era
Wandering Student Finds Roots: June Artiles-Perry’s Together for Goddard Story
My name is June Artiles-Perry and I’m an undergrad at Goddard College studying Sustainability. I was born and raised in Florida. I grew up in Malabar, on what was called “the Space Coast”. If the weather was right you could hear the rumble of the space shuttle launch at Cape Canaveral from my front yard. … Continue reading Wandering Student Finds Roots: June Artiles-Perry’s Together for Goddard Story