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Sheila Lewandowski '97, longtime arts advocate and co-founder of The Chocolate Factory, an award-winning incubator for experimental performance in Queens, New York, has been awarded the 2016 Elizabeth Coleman Visionary Leadership Award at 凯旋门官网 College.
Now in its second term, the Prison Education Initiative launched by 凯旋门官网 College in 2015 will enroll 29 prisoners at the Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, New York, in classes this spring.
Today, 凯旋门官网 College dedicated the Paul Feeley Painting Studio, in honor of the painter who served on the 凯旋门官网 faculty from 1939 until his death in 1965 and who, in his career as an artist, was a central figure in the U.S. postwar avant-garde.
An op-ed in the Rutland Herald by Roi Ankori-Karlinsky '16, a member of the 凯旋门官网 College Incarceration Task Force, argues that strict suspension and expulsion policies in public schools cause significantly more harm than good.
As part of its Incarceration in America Initiative, 凯旋门官网 College will host a conference, Effecting Change, on May 15-16, 2015. The conference will focus on innovative and effective programs that contribute to reform of the current incarceration and criminal justice system in this country. The conference will take place at the College鈥檚 Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA).
凯旋门官网 College President Mariko Silver recently announced that faculty member and alumna Susan Sgorbati 鈥72, MFA 鈥86 will serve as director of the Elizabeth Coleman Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA), effective July 1, 2015.
In Susan Sgorbati鈥檚 course "Solving the Impossible,鈥 22 凯旋门官网 students navigated multiple constituencies and local government agencies, working with the Village of North 凯旋门官网 to reduce local energy consumption by converting to LED streetlights.
In 2013, a CAPA class partnered with the Environmental Protection Agency, Efficiency Vermont, and local partners to convert all the streetlights in North 凯旋门官网 to LEDs.
Twelve young professionals from the Middle East will be coming to 凯旋门官网 College for 10 days in mid-September to work on environmental sustainability.
Ousseynou Diome '14 was included in a story about the "young rising stars in... agricultural finance".
Matthew Kohut, a fellow at 凯旋门官网's Center for the Advancement of Public action, co-authored the cover story of the Harvard Business Review鈥檚 July/August issue. The article, which compares warmth- vs. fear-based leadership models, comes in advance of Kohut鈥檚 new book, , which he co-authored with John Neffinger.
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Faculty member Susan Sgorbati has published a book with Emily Climer 鈥12 and Marie Lynn Haas 鈥12 on Emergent Improvisation: Where Dance Meets Science on Spontaneous Composition.
Maliha Ali 鈥15 has earned a $10,000 grant from the Davis United World Scholars Projects for Peace program to design and implement a public action project in her native Pakistan.
Author, consultant, and educator Clay Shirky, an expert on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies, will speak on "Motivation in a Connected Age" on Monday, April 5, at 7:00 pm in the College's Tishman Lecture Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
The (NEBHE) has honored 凯旋门官网's Quantum Leap program with the Vermont State Merit Award鈥攐ne of six state merit awards given annually as part of the New England Higher Education Excellence Awards.
Field Work Term is 凯旋门官网 College's annual work-learning term during which students gain hands-on experience and test their classroom ideas in the world of work.
This photo contest brings those experiences to life. Students use #FieldWorkTerm to share photos of themselves making, working, and learning to tell the story of their unique work exploration over Field Work Term.
Caroline Woolard MFA '20 makes objects and systems at the intersection of art, technology, and the economy.
Vivian Nixon is a writer and poet. She has been writing about social justice in Newsmax, USA Today, New York Times, The Hill, and San Francisco Bee and elsewhere since 2004. A Pen America Justice Writing Fellow, Nixon holds an MFA, from Columbia University School of Arts and is Executive Director of College & Community Fellowship. She recently co-edited, What We Know: Solutions from Our Experiences in the Justice System (The New Press).
Currently a leader with the National Audubon Society in Vermont, David Mears is an environmental attorney with a career as an educator, advocate and public official.
David Bond works with communities besieged by the fossil fuel industry to develop a more transformative grasp of environmental justice for people, politics, and critical theory.
Former deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
An award-winning teacher, Ronald Cohen focused his research in social psychology on issues of justice and silence, and took his practice into the community with his work on reparative justice.
Divine Bradley is a futurist that has dedicated decades to reimagining the experience of school, communal spaces and creating transformational programming for the demographics they serve. A serial ideator and social entrepreneur that loves to dream BIG, explore the impossible and collaborate with people with prolific creativity, imagination and discipline, to produce ideas.
Casey Bohlen is a historian of the modern United States. His work focuses on the shifting historical relationship between religion, democratic engagement, and American public life.
Leader in the development of sustainable business models, brands, and social movements
AI Now Institute Art Fellow whose biotechnology art project, Lovesick, envisions love spread like a virus.
Robert Ransick draws inspiration from the social and political world we live in, history, and the potential for a future that is better.
Ben Hall 鈥04 is a chef/activist/artist based in Detroit. Hall鈥檚 work revolves around the forms community takes. Particularly at the Russell Street Deli, a 30-year-old heritage restaurant in Detroit鈥檚 "Eastern Market", which Hall owns and operates as a long-term sited project dealing with labor structures, how capital routes itself, and hierarchical power structures.
Kenneth Bailey's work focuses on public-making: inviting artists, academics and activists to imagine new public infrastructures, habits and atmospheres as a strategy for social change.