Pledges to Goddard’s 2015 Sustaining Donor Challenge Will Support Higher Education with a Social Mission Plainfield, Vt. – Goddard College today announced it will participate in #GivingTuesday, a first of its kind effort that will harness the collective power of a unique blend of partners—charities, families, businesses and individuals—to transform how people think about, talk […]
This past fall, Goddard College made national headlines and ignited a fierce debate when the graduating students of the Undergraduate Studies Program invited controversial prisoner and Goddard alumnus Mumia Abu-Jamal (BA ’96) to speak via recorded remarks at their commencement. Above is the prerecorded speech, which was played alongside the slideshow for the modest 23 […]
Inmate Journalist and Goddard Graduate to Address Newest Class of Radical Thinkers Plainfield, Vt. — Goddard College announced today that Mumia Abu-Jamal, an American prisoner, author, and journalist who received his Bachelor of Arts from Goddard in 1996, was selected by the students of the Undergraduate Program’s Fall 2014 graduating class to be their commencement […]
Plainfield, Vt. – Goddard College announced today Vermont high school students will be able to earn college credit by participating in a community-based, youth radio program at WGDR/WGDH Goddard Community Radio. Beginning in the spring of 2015, the program, ‘True Stories: Adventures in Nonfiction Audio Storytelling,’ is a three-credit college course open to high school […]
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 […]
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 – […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Goddard Professor to Explore “Aesthetics of Funk” at National Endowment of Humanities Institute
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 […]