Goddard College is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Noah Coburn as the college’s new Provost. He will begin as Provost on January 9, 2023 following completion of a residency at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, where he is currently a Fulbright Fellow. Noah comes to Goddard College from Bennington College, where he served for […]
October 12, 2022 Our Democracy at Stake! The Alternative Media Conference is back. Independent media-makers creatively fighting back against the biggest threats to our democracy, climate and workers’ rights. In 1970, Goddard College hosted a groundbreaking event featuring some of the most visionary and controversial media creators to emerge during that most tumultuous of eras. […]
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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The search for a new president for Goddard College is down to three candidates. Founded in 1938, Goddard College is a pioneer of the learner-driven education model that empowers students to direct and design their own course of study. Current Goddard College President Bernard Bull is credited with bridging Goddard’s past to its present. Dr. […]
Basic protective measures against the new coronavirus Stay aware of the latest information on the COVID-19 outbreak, available on the WHO website and through your national and local public health authority. COVID-19 is still affecting mostly people in China with some outbreaks in other countries. Most people who become infected experience mild illness and recover, […]
