What is The New Academy?

Spring Term 2007 Schedule (PDF)

A college is and ought to be many things. No matter whether she is a thirty-four year old first-year student or a nineteen year old graduating senior, Bennett Belles live and study in a community that is itself intentionally a crossroads. Everywhere, one finds students from nearly every State and many countries and continents. Life-long friendships are begun and earned.  Careers and professional lives are prepared for and launched. These opportunities shape the lives of Bennett students. 

But first and last, a college truly worth its salt has for its most compelling ambition a governing and undaunted objective: to provide its students with diverse and lively opportunities to become, in time, their own best teachers. For students with career ambitions in law, medicine, graduate studies in the humanities and sciences and social sciences, K-12 teaching, entrepreneurship, media, and global and public service, The New Academy will have special appeal. Established in January 2006 at the heart of Bennett College for Women, The New Academy is designed to affirm these public-minded and global-focused commitments. Its curricular commitment is to engage Great Issues in the Western Tradition of inquiry and action with the experience of the African Diaspora. Steadfastly rigorous, animated by exploration and discovery: that’s the heart of the matter in The New Academy. >>(PDF)

The Pioneer Cohort of Scholars, Senior Fellows, and Collectors

Spring Term 2006 

In Spring Term 2006, an intrepid group of Bennett Belles became the Pioneers of The New Academy; an innovative College-wide, interdisciplinary Learning Community at Bennett College for Women.  Together with, and under the guidance of, a highly-motivated and talented crew of Faculty (called Senior Fellows and Collectors), these Belles began to chart a new chapter in Bennett’s heralded record of student-focused teaching and learning.  >>