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August 26, 2014 Fellowship will support the translation into English of Spanish-Zapotec poetry by Irma Pineda Plainfield, Vt.— Goddard College is pleased to announce The National Endowment for the Arts has recommended BFA faculty member Wendy Call for an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship of $12,500. Call is one of 20 recommended fellows for 2015. With this… Continue reading Goddard Faculty Member Receives NEA Literature Translation Fellowship

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Clockhouse features award-winning writers Elisabeth Frost, David Greenspan, Rinne Groff, Beth Kephart, Naomi Shihab Nye, Purvi Shah, Michelle Yasmine Valladares, and Rahna Reiko Rizzuto’s interview of M.T. Anderson PLAINFIELD, Vt.–Goddard College announced today the Clockhouse Writers’ Conference (CWC) – an alumni-run conference for graduates of Goddard’s MFA in Creative Writing program –… Continue reading Clockhouse Writers and Goddard publish 2nd volume of ‘Clockhouse’

Plainfield, Vt. – Goddard College announced today the addition of five new members of the board: Lucinda Garthwaite, Caleb Pitkin, Richard Schramm, Goddard student Kelly Bowen, and faculty member Nicola Morris. “We are building a board of trustees that can guide Goddard through ever-changing times while maintaining its commitment to progressive education and to helping… Continue reading Goddard College Appoints Five New Trustees

PLAINFIELD, Vt. – Carved by a collective of immigrant artists and printed with a construction roller, a 200-foot-long woodcut depicting the history of U.S. immigration will be showcased at an Art Crawl at Goddard College, July 30 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The print, entitled “Migration to Chicago,” was created in the 1990s and is… Continue reading Goddard Student Showcases History of Immigration Print

PLAINFIELD, Vt. – Goddard College today announced the receipt of a competitive, $20,000 Vermont Community Foundation (VCF) Innovations and Collaborations grant. The grant, co-funded by the Lyman Orton Fund and an anonymous donor-advised fund of the VCF, will support the work of its licensee WGDR/WGDH Goddard College Community Radio, to grow their new media education project,… Continue reading Goddard College and WGDR Radio Receive Vermont Community Foundation Grant

Plainfield, Vt. – H. Sharif Williams, a professor and chair of the Goddard College Faculty Council, has been accepted as a participant in the National Endowment of the Humanities three-week summer institute exploring “Black Aesthetics and African Centered Cultural Expressions” at Emory University in July. Dr. Williams, who is also known as “Dr. Herukhuti” (based upon… Continue reading Goddard Professor to Explore “Aesthetics of Funk” at National Endowment of Humanities Institute

Plainfield, Vt. – Visiting writer Justin Torres, author of the novel We the Animals, will read from his fiction, answer questions, and sign books on April 14th at 7:30pm at the Haybarn Theatre at Goddard College. This event is free and open to the public as presented by Goddard’s BFA in Creative Writing Program. Justin Torres’ We… Continue reading New York Times Best-Selling Author Speaks at Goddard April 14

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

  “Goddard! Shivers up my spine like fingertips, the name does rouse me like a life. The place has given me no less than life, in fact – and a life of the kind I thought was out of the question. “I came to Goddard in 2010 at a younger age than many these days,… Continue reading “Rouse Me Like a Life" by Desmond Peeples (IBA ’14)

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

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

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. — Goddard College’s MFA in Creative Writing Program will host a free screening of critically acclaimed documentary West of Memphis, followed by a Q&A with first-time filmmaker Damien Echols on Monday, February 17, at 2:45 p.m. at the Rose Theatre in Port Townsend. Doors open at 2:15 p.m. Written and directed by Academy Award… Continue reading Goddard College Hosts Free Screening of ‘West Of Memphis’

The Board of Trustees has nearly completed the hiring process for Interim President.  Candidates were interviewed and met with interested members of the community over the last two weeks. We appreciate all of the comments that we have received and we will make an announcement about our selection as soon as possible. As the selection… Continue reading 12/23/13 Update on Presidential Transition

Plainfield, Vt. – Goddard College announced today that it has partnered with the Clockhouse Writers’ Conference – an annual, alumni-run conference and retreat for graduates of Goddard’s MFA in Creative Writing Program – to launch CLOCKHOUSE, a new, annual, literary magazine featuring short stories, interviews, essays, plays and poems by both award-winning writers and exciting,… Continue reading Goddard College’s Clockhouse Writers’ Conference Launches National Literary Magazine

Plainfield, VT) – Goddard College today announced that 1968 Olympic gold medalist Tommie Smith will be presented with the 2013 Presidential Award for Activism at Goddard’s October 6 commencement ceremony in Plainfield. Smith’s iconic “Black Power” salute (seen at right on the cover of his autobiography) as he stood on the Olympic podium at the… Continue reading Goddard College to Honor Olympian and Alumnus Tommie Smith