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When you’re housed in a city with four larger institutions of higher learning and an emerging law school, it might be easy to get lost in the shuffle. However, one of the draws for Bennett College is its robust International Program, which since 2009 has sent about 200 students to 29 countries as far away and varied as Australia, China, Costa Rica, South Africa, South Korea and Tanzania. Moreover, Bennett has hosted 19 international students from formal government scholarship programs from countries including Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines and Turkmenistan. “We’re proud to offer our students the opportunity to travel internationally,” …

In wake of the Me Too and Time’s Up movements sweeping the nation, more focus is being placed on women’s issues and on women as leaders. Yet at Bennett College, leadership and social activism have always been part of student life. Long before 1960 when Bennett Belles joined in solidarity with the four North Carolina A&T State University students who sat down at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro to protest discrimination, they picketed the Carolina Theater in 1938 over its racist practice of editing African-Americans out of films. Bennett Belles also protested the negative portrayal of African-Americans in movies …

Winston Churchill famously stated, “We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.” Dr. Willietta, Gibson, associate professor of biology at Bennett College, has spent the past seven years making her living at Bennett while simultaneously giving back and paying it forward for students throughout the Triad. In addition to her course load at Bennett, Gibson serves as Project Director of the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP). A National Science Foundation (NSF) program, LSAMP is committed to helping students of color complete undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) degrees and …