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
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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
Accreditation Vote Re-Invigorates Goddard College
Greetings to the Goddard community, I’m writing to you with wonderful news from our recent meeting with the New England Commission for Higher Education (NECHE) this Thursday, September 24. While I don’t have an official letter or details to share yet, I have received notification from the President of NECHE that the Commission voted to… Continue reading Accreditation Vote Re-Invigorates Goddard College
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
Goddard College Ranks #1 for Master’s Degrees
The Measures of Success When it comes to getting the most for your money in higher education, Goddard College ranks third in the Northeast just under Harvard and Yale and above MIT, according to a new report released from Washington Monthly recently. The same study looked at Masters Degree programs, ranking the colleges “based on… Continue reading Goddard College Ranks #1 for Master’s Degrees
Remembering Howard Ashman in Vermont
“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.” – Sir James Barrie, Peter Pan Alums from Goddard College’s 1971 class remember Howard Ashman as “a beautiful soul”, a vibrant theater undergrad who would spontaneously erupt in song in the College’s dining hall- Broadway show tunes at full voice. This was at eight… Continue reading Remembering Howard Ashman in Vermont
Interdisciplinary Arts MFA Alums are Still Resonating
Pugs (Daniel Seung) Pugliese, along with a couple of his peers, reflects on his his experience at Goddard’s low residency MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program. All photographs were taken by Pugs during graduating weekend, which took place in January 2020. Three months out from receiving my MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College, I find… Continue reading Interdisciplinary Arts MFA Alums are Still Resonating
Digitally Remastered: Theater in the Pandemic
Fran Sillau in Conversation with Ruth Wallen This interview with Fran Sillau one of several with Goddard alums exploring how they are adapting teaching and collaborative practices to the social isolation in which we find ourselves. This interview with MFAIA-VT Lead Faculty, Ruth Wallen, was conducted remotely in early May 2020. Fran Sillau graduated from Goddard College’s… Continue reading Digitally Remastered: Theater in the Pandemic
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
$200k Gift Announced for MFAW Student Emergency Fund
We are delighted to announce that Goddard recently received an anonymous gift of $200,000 (plus an additional $30,000 to cover grant administration costs) to establish an emergency fund for students in the MFA in Writing Program. MFAW students will be able to apply for a grant of up to $3,000 per semester to help with unforeseen financial… Continue reading $200k Gift Announced for MFAW Student Emergency Fund
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
“A living experiment”: John Bell’s Together For Goddard Story
by John Bell I was never a formal student at Goddard College, but from 1973 to 1975, I learned more there, in some ways, than I did in four years at a liberal arts college. I came there to work with Bread and Puppet Theater, which Goddard in its wisdom had made a theater-in-residence at… Continue reading “A living experiment”: John Bell’s Together For Goddard Story
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
“I ran away with the circus” Trudi Cohen’s Together for Goddard Story
In 1972 I graduated from Goddard College, where I studied Early Childhood Education with the remarkable June Edson. I taught in nursery and daycare settings for a few years, and then I ran away with the circus, that is to say, I joined the Bread and Puppet Theater, which has been the foundation for my… Continue reading “I ran away with the circus” Trudi Cohen’s Together for Goddard Story
Sustainability School in Guatemala is Inspired by Goddard
By Matt Paneitz I spent over a decade in San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala helping to transform 500 tons of trash (including 15,000 used tires) into a school campus. Many would call it “a crazy endeavor”. Through this work I started an NGO called Long Way Home with a mission “to use sustainable design and materials to construct… Continue reading Sustainability School in Guatemala is Inspired by Goddard