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NewPages.com glowingly reviewed issue three of Bennington Review, calling it "an incredibly strong issue put forth by an excellent journal."

A recent exhibition of works by two former faculty members and iconic figures in contemporary art鈥攕culptor Sir Anthony Caro and painter Jules Olitski鈥"offers a capsule vision of the relationship of the two artists" during their formative years together at Bennington, one critic writes.

The National Trust of Historic Preservation included Bennington鈥檚 Crossett Library on its list of 鈥Six Midcentury Modern Campus Buildings You Need to Visit.鈥

President Silver was among several college presidents who signed a letter published in the Wall Street Journal which pointed out how ranking rules exclude 鈥渟ome of the most outstanding small colleges in the country.鈥

Bennington ranks among the 15 most beautiful college campuses, according to Expedia. The travel site based its rankings on "five categories that add a sense of beauty to the college experience, some of which includes those eye-pleasing elements, but also abstract factors that are more about feeling than seeing the beauty."