Bennett Helped Me to Discover My Strengths and Weaknesses and Become a Better Me My name is Justine Ryan and I am a double major in Theatre (Bachelors in Fine Arts) and Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration in global studies and conflict resolution from Richmond, Virginia. My story at Bennett starts off different from most. I originally started my college education at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia. I was not pleased with being there. I knew that I wanted to be in college, but I knew Mary Baldwin was not the place for me. By the end of the …
Chiara Alston Secures Job After Graduation as Retail Sales Territory Manager for The Hershey Company Here’s what Chiara Alston had to say about Bennett College and her new job opportunity: “I knew as early as the seventh grade that I wanted to attend Bennett College and major in business administration. I have a passion for winning and I have always been dedicated to learning. I always knew that I wanted to work for a major corporation. It was April of 2015 when I first encountered The Hershey Company head at the Enactus National Explosion in St. Louis Missouri. Other major …
Bennett is truly providing an ‘Education for Your Future.’ In May 2016, Bennett College had Dr. Joye Hardiman, former executive director of Evergreen College, Tacoma campus, on campus to work with Bennett College faculty to create Academic Learning Communities. This fall, Bennett College is creating about eight Learning Communities cohorts of 25 new students per cohort. Each student will enroll in 15-17 credit hours to increase time to graduation. The theme across all cohorts is “Equality and Diversity.” Prior to arrival on campus, they have been asked to read “Faces at the Bottom of the Well,” by Derrick Bell. Integrated assignments on …
November – January In residence at Bennett College from October 31st – November 11th Opening – 6pm, Friday November 11th The title of the work, Twice Told, comes from The Souls of Black Folk by writer and civil rights pioneer W.E.B. DuBois. In his 1903 book, DuBois wrote, “One ever feels his two-ness—an American, a Ne- gro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings . . . .” This quote describes DuBois’s theory of “double consciousness,” the duali- ty of the black American psyche in which black men and women must reconcile understanding of self with the perceptions of a …
Reflections of a Former Affirmative Action Officer on Affirmative Action and Reverse Discrimination As a former Affirmative Action officer in the 1980s at two predominantly white New England post-secondary institutions, I have been fascinated this semester by my Affirmative Action discussions with my students in the course American Judicial Process at a southern post-secondary historically black college (HBC) for women. We have spent a considerable time on the 14th Amendment, exploring equal protection through our reading of the Supreme Court opinion in Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003) (race as a factor in student admissions at the University of …