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Two weeks ago Goddard College’s President Bob Kenny was one of seventeen College Presidents from AVIC (Association of Vermont Independent Colleges) to sign the “Statement on the Revocation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program”. This statement outlined the groups deep concern over the termination of the DACA program, and expressed their support… Continue reading Goddard President: Bob Kenny Joins AVIC Presidents in Statement Against DACA Revocation

An American Noel by Marianna Boncek (MA EDU ’98) will be staged at the Hudson Valley Short Play Festival at the Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck, New York. The festival runs September 15-17, 2017. Marianna  is an English teacher, author, and poet. She has a particularly keen interest in “lost” local history. Her two… Continue reading ‘An American Noel’ by alumna Marianna Boncek to be staged at the Hudson Valley Short Play Festival

To the Goddard Community: Goddard is of the world, not separate from the world, so what issues from the White House affects our students, staff, faculty, alumni, and friends. The President signed an executive order declaring a 90-day ban on entry into the United States by citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations. This order fundamentally contradicts… Continue reading A Message on Executive Order on Immigration

PLAINFIELD, Vt. – Goddard College announced today that Jane O’Meara Sanders, a Goddard alumna and entrepreneur in the public realm for most of her career, was selected by the spring 2017 graduating class of the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program to be the speaker at the Feb. 5 Commencement Ceremony. Sanders, who is married to U.S. Sen.… Continue reading Jane Sanders to give commencement speech at Goddard College

Since the Presidential Election in November, there has been heightened concern from the Goddard community and from campuses across the country about Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) students and others without legal U.S. residency status. Issued by President Obama in 2012, DACA is an executive order that affords many undocumented young people two years… Continue reading President Kenny: ‘Our unequivocal support to all members of our community’

I know that members of our community have differing political and social views. On Tuesday, November 8th, votes were cast in our national election, and, in January, the United States will have a new president. No matter our feelings about this it will happen and we will be affected by it. I realize that some… Continue reading Community Message About the 2016 Election

The Goddard College Board of Trustees voted alumna Elissa Sloan Perry (MFA ’97) and faculty advisor Aimee Liu into its membership in September and July, respectively. Perry is an organizational leader, consultant and coach working with individuals, organizations and multi-sector networks in the areas of change leadership, equity, education and the arts. Currently and for… Continue reading Elissa Sloan Perry and Aimee Liu join Goddard Board

Since Goddard’s early days in the 1940s, the community has upheld a work program where members of the community – students, faculty, staff and administration – share operational duties and pitch in on maintenance projects around campus. For Goddard’s annual spring community work day this year, Plainfield staff and administrators were joined by students from… Continue reading Community Work Day – May 5, 2016

by Glenn C. Koenig (BA RUP ’75) In 1973, when I first arrived at Goddard, there were already a few student published periodicals.  One was called simply “The Paper,” and came out on newsprint.  Some time later, a group of students published “The Pig Farmers’ Almanac,” which was more of an occasional vehicle for stories,… Continue reading History of The Rooster