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Trust: A Commencement Address by Faculty Sara Norton

  Undergraduate Program Faculty member Sara Norton was invited by graduating students to deliver the March 2014 Undergraduate Program Commencement Address, transcribed below. I want to thank the graduating students, for inviting me to speak today. It is a privilege to celebrate with you your achievement. Here at Goddard, each graduating class is unique and… Continue reading Trust: A Commencement Address by Faculty Sara Norton

News and Achievements-March 2014

Welcome to the monthly MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program news blog! This is a regular avenue for the public to learn about the achievements and good work of our alumni, students, and faculty. ALUMNI Riva Weinstein (MFAIA-VT ’14) will present Walking in Circles of Art/Life/Nature, an 18-minute walking meditation on Saturday, April 19th, 2014. And… Continue reading News and Achievements-March 2014

Goddard’s Chief Academic Officer to Speak at Yale’s Spring Teaching Forum

Plainfield, Vt. – Goddard College’s chief academic officer, Steven James, PhD, will join academics from Yale, Princeton, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a conversation about college grading during the Yale Teaching Center’s 16th Annual Spring Teaching Forum on March 28, 2014, in New Haven, Conn. The forum, which will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.… Continue reading Goddard’s Chief Academic Officer to Speak at Yale’s Spring Teaching Forum

Together We Go There: Emergent Co-Learning Beyond the Colonial*

  As a progressive educator & developing scholar of decolonization, I have been thinking about interdisciplinarity, decolonization and  “co-learning” a lot lately.  This semester brought new and consequential insights on all three that I’d like to share. As the semester began, I enthusiastically set forth to explore interdisciplinarity with our newly-formed Interdisciplinary Art Learning Community. … Continue reading Together We Go There: Emergent Co-Learning Beyond the Colonial*

4th Annual Dual Language Conference Wrap-Up

At the heart of the fourth annual Dual Language Conference, held at the EDU Seattle Residency on Saturday, February 1, 2014, was the incredibly unified and hardworking core of volunteers that made up the planning committee.  This group of over 30 volunteers was comprised of staff, students, faculty, alumni, and local community members and spent… Continue reading 4th Annual Dual Language Conference Wrap-Up

Goddard College Receives $30,000 Grant from Vermont Arts Council

Plainfield, Vt. – Goddard College is the recipient of a $30,000 Cultural Facilities Grant from the Vermont Arts Council. With this award, Goddard plans to increase the comfort, accessibility, safety, and functionality of the Haybarn Theatre, which is currently a venue for national and international performers, community members, and students. Specifically, this grant money will renovate… Continue reading Goddard College Receives $30,000 Grant from Vermont Arts Council

Goddard College Hires Interim President

Plainfield, Vt.– Robert Kenny has been appointed interim president of Goddard College. The Goddard Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve the hiring of Kenny, according to Board Chair Avram Patt.  Kenny officially begins work April 30. Kenny, a native of Vermont, returns to Goddard after serving as vice president of finance and administration at… Continue reading Goddard College Hires Interim President

An Ecovillage Leader

Cynthia Tina (BAS ‘15) lives in an ecovillage in Massachusetts and is exploring ecovillages as physical expressions of the worldview of the “interconnection” that we need to experience in order to move beyond the separation that characterizes many mainstream lives. She feels that this shift in consciousness is at the heart of creating change in… Continue reading An Ecovillage Leader

January and February 2014 Achievements

Faculty Kyle Bass has been commissioned by the Onondaga Historical Association to write a play based on events of 1839 involving a fugitive enslaved woman, abolitionist Gerrit Smith, and a young Elizabeth Cady (Stanton). Deborah Brevoort was invited in February to teach three playwriting workshops at the San Miguel Writer’s Conference in San Miguel de… Continue reading January and February 2014 Achievements

"Why I Love Goddard!" Juanita Martin (BA HAS '14)

  BA in Health Arts & Sciences student Juanita Martin, entering her Level 8 semester, on what makes Goddard College special: “I landed at Goddard at the ripe age of 51 with more college experience than a graduating PhD student, but I had not completed any one degree.  I had credits in various fields, from… Continue reading "Why I Love Goddard!" Juanita Martin (BA HAS '14)

News and Publications Jan-Feb 2014

FACULTY Kyle Bass has been commissioned by the Onondaga Historical Association to write a play based on events of 1839 involving a fugitive enslaved woman, abolitionist Gerrit Smith, and a young Elizabeth Cady (Stanton). Deborah Brevoort was invited in February to teach three playwriting workshops at the San Miguel Writer’s Conference in San Miguel de… Continue reading News and Publications Jan-Feb 2014

News and Achievements – February 2014

Welcome to the monthly MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program news blog! This is a regular avenue for the public to learn about the achievements and good work of our alumni, students, and faculty. Current Students & Alumni Christine Brubaker  (MFAIA-VT ’15) will present her paper “Quantifying the Subjective: Acting and the Visual Analogue Scale” at… Continue reading News and Achievements – February 2014

Student Profile: Anjali Austin

  Anjali Austin is a student in Goddard College’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts (MFAIA) program and a returning professional. A former member of Dance Theatre of Harlem for 13 years, she has worked with noted teachers and choreographers such as Agnes de Mille, Louis Johnson, Alexandra Danilova, Glen Tetley, Valerie Bettis, Geoffrey Holder, and Frederick… Continue reading Student Profile: Anjali Austin

Alexis M. Smith

Alexis M. Smith (MFAW ’07) is the author of the novel Glaciers (Tin House Books), a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, and a World Book Night 2013 selection. Glaciers has been translated into Spanish and Italian, and was recently published in the UK. Smith grew up in Soldotna, Alaska, and Seattle, Washington.… Continue reading Alexis M. Smith