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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 …