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Matthew Groner, a rising third-term MFA candidate in fiction, has been selected as the second Residential Teaching Fellow at the, working in the classroom for a full term beginning in Spring 2019.

President Mariko Silver announced the Campus Renewal campaign via the following memo sent to the Ź community:

Starting this fall, Ź College will participate in a four-college consortium focusing on the global refugee crisis, supported by a $2.5-million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The College is pleased to announce a new two-year Master of Fine Arts in Public Action degree, launching in Fall 2018.

Ź College is pleased to announce a new initiative, Art for Access, which provides a dynamic model for supporting scholarships by inviting new donations of art to the College, an institution with a long and celebrated reputation in the arts. Through this initiative, Ź will seek gifts of works of art to be sold to benefit one of the College’s highest priorities: providing scholarships for talented students who otherwise would not be able to afford a Ź education. Art for Access celebrates the College’s pioneering legacy in the visual arts while advancing its commitment to equity, diversity, and access.

This September, over 200 first-year students arrived at Ź College in Vermont.

On September 4, 2018, the Ź community gathered to celebrate the start of the academic year and welcome over 200 new first-year students to the College.

The newly relaunched Ź Review has released its fifth issue, featuring innovative poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and film writing around the theme of “Fauna.”

As we round the corner into the new academic year at Ź, we carry the momentum of all that our community accomplished over the past year. The feats of our students, faculty, and staff—enlivened by Ź’s pioneering spirit—astonish year after year, as you’ll see for yourself below.

In , Mariko Silver, president of Ź College, discusses the valuable lessons students can glean from internships that go differently than they initially expected.

Ź College celebrated the achievements of the Class of 2018 at Commencement this year with speaker Liz Lerman, who bestowed upon graduates a series of wishes for their futures.

Lisa Ann Cockrel, a third-term MFA candidate in nonfiction, has been selected as the first at the .

Thanks to a generous and sustaining gift from an anonymous donor, the Ź Writing Seminars is pleased to announce it will begin offering the .

The Ź Writing Seminars, in partnership with PEN Center USA, has announced that during the , it will once again be offering a scholarship of $10,000 to an alumni of program.

The Princeton Review released its ranking for the top 384 colleges in America, and Ź featured prominently in several categories. As one of Princeton's 2019 Best Northeastern Colleges, Ź continues to excel in the region as an institution that is "academically outstanding and well worth consideration in your college search."

WalletHub featured Director of Financial Aid Heather Clifford in an "Ask the Expert" segment explaining the process behind instant approval for credit cards.

Ź College recently announced that over 2,000 donors raised almost $7.5 million for the Ź Fund, making the last fiscal year the best yet for fundraising.

President Mariko Silver and faculty members Anne Thompson, director and curator of the ; Megan Mayhew Bergman, director of special programming and the ; and Dina Janis, artistic director of the ; spoke with the Ź Area Chamber of Commerce about the region's arts landscape.

When asked why they love to write, the high school students at the (GIV) are quick to reply.

The at Ź College is pleased to announce its participation in the program.

Donald Hall, former United States poet laureate, longtime Ź Writing Seminars writer-in-residence, and dear friend of the College, at age 89.

For many young adults, college is the first time they get to independently navigate their own lives. From incorporating feedback from professors into developed projects to managing and balancing course requirements with personal relationships and work experiences, college is intended to be demanding for all students.

Dear Elected Leaders,
The Vermont House has passed H.911, which we believe, if enacted, will fundamentally change the nature of charitable giving in Vermont. Its negative effects will hurt Vermont non-profits, and more importantly, diminish our ability to serve Vermonters in our communities.

On the evening of June 1, Ź College’s Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA) will be orange, in observance of the goal of ending gun violence.

Choreographer, performer, writer, educator, and alumna Liz Lerman will address the class of 2018 at Ź College’s 83rd commencement dinner on Friday, June 1, at 7:00 pm on Commons Lawn. The event will be .

“I don’t normally teach people who are studying dance or music,” said human rights lawyer Andrea Galindo. “So although I’m not normally teaching only lawyers, because people working in human rights come from different backgrounds as well, this is a whole new level.”

On , the public is invited to celebrate the re-opening of the Robert Frost Stone House Museum, which was acquired by Ź College last December as a gift from the Friends of Robert Frost, in recognition of the College’s long and lauded literary history.

Ź College is excited to announce the appointment of ten new faculty members for the 2018-19 academic year in the areas of video, literature, chemistry, sociolinguistics, media studies, and sound design.

President Mariko Silver’s essay is featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s “What It’s Like to be a Woman in the Academy” round-up.

Susan Stryker, award-winning scholar and filmmaker whose historical research, theoretical writing, and creative works have helped shape the cultural conversation on transgender topics since the early 1990s, will be the 2018 Ruth D. Ewing Lecturer at Ź College.