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The Goddard College of today took shape in earnest in 1938, when a group of educators led by Royce “Tim” Pitkin proposed a Vermont “College for Living” to be located on a Plainfield sheep farm purchased from the Martin family. This new college would provide the environment for students and faculty together to build a […]
James “SoSoon” Gantt graduated from Goddard College Individualized Bachelor of Arts in 2015. He is a hip hop artist-intellectual-activist-speaker. James’ work combines skillful MC lyricism with a critical, yet compassionate, commentary on the world as it is and as he believes it could be. You can find out more about him and his music here […]
Afro-Cuban singer and international recording artist Bobi Céspedes interviewed by Renée Almatierra for Goddard College. Find out more about Goddard’s unique bilingual education program based in Seattle Washington
The Alternative Media Conference took place at Goddard College from June 17th through June 20 in 1970. The original Alternative Media Conference brought over 1,700 innovative FM radio DJs, a new breed of record company promoters, underground newspaper reporters, Freak Brothers cartoonist Gilbert Shelton, Baba Ram Dass, Rolling Stone photographer Robert Altman, 60s radical Jerry […]
This slideshow, created using audio and photographs from the Goddard College Archives, documents the early history of the College. The audio consists of excerpts from a talk Goddard’s founding president, Royce “Tim” Pitkin, gave in 1973. The talk was called, “The Ideas Upon Which Goddard Was Founded.”
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Jake Shore’s newest play, Adjust The Procedure, is a work for the times. Held over a Zoom call, the four character play takes place within the bureaucratic infrastructure of a university. The summary: It’s early Fall 2020 and the pandemic consumes a Manhattan university. In addition to tracking rising cases of COVID on campus, the […]
Paul Zaloom graduated from Goddard College in 1973. His degree, he says, was in puppetry, though he had no professors who taught him that specific subject. So how did he do it? OPENING ACT Zaloom, like many Goddard graduates, followed the progressive education model to “learn by doing”. It began when he joined up with […]
“Decolonization: What’s Love Got to Do With It?” is a day-long festival that takes place September 25, 2021 at Goddard College. The program examines the ongoing impact of settler colonialism, and asks how we at Goddard can contribute to movements for decolonization and Indigenous sovereignty. The title, “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” amplifies […]
For its 150 year history, Goddard College established early on that it was going to be a bold experiment in education. Using its smallness to its advantage, Goddard continues to innovate and thrive as the landscape of higher education itself struggles to shift and pivot with the changing times. At Goddard College, change is a […]
