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Plainfield, Vermont
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, Vermont
Vermont
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, offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Goddard College currently operates on an intensive low-residency model. Goddard is nationally and internationally recognized for its leadership in educational innovation, its deep commitment to the ideal of democracy and for its active efforts to live consciously as stewards of the earth. Students design their own curriculum; the college currently uses a student self-directed, mentored system.
Residencies require the student's attendance every six months for approximately eight days, during which time the student engages in a variety of activities and lectures from early morning until late in the evening, and creates a detailed study plan outlining what learning they will engage in once back in their home communities. During the semester students study independently, sending in "packets" to their faculty mentor every three weeks. The content of the packets varies with each individual, but focuses on research, writing, and reflection related to their study plan.
In the mid 2000's Goddard expanded to the west coast, creating Goddard College West, located in Port Townsend, Washington
Port Townsend, Washington
Port Townsend is a city in Jefferson County, Washington, United States, approximately north-northwest of Seattle . The population was 9,113 at the 2010 census an increase of 9.3% over the 2000 census. It is the county seat and only incorporated city of Jefferson County...
and in July, 2011 will offer their education program (non-licensure only) in Seattle, Washington, as well as in Vermont.
Mission
To advance cultures of rigorous inquiry, collaboration, and life-long learning, whereindividuals take imaginative and responsible action in the world.
Early History
Goddard College began in 1863. Royce S. "Tim" Pitkin, the first Goddard president, a progressive educator and follower of John DeweyJohn Dewey
John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey was an important early developer of the philosophy of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology...
and other, similar proponents of educational democracy, earned a doctorate at Columbia and returned to Vermont where he started Goddard College. Pitkin conceived of the college as a place for "plain living and hard thinking."
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Having narrative transcripts instead of traditional letter grades, as well as learner-designed curricula, Goddard was one of the Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities
Union Institute & University
Union Institute & University is a non-profit private college, specializing in limited residence and distance learning programs. With the main campus in Cincinnati, Union Institute & University operates -from Ohio- "satellite campuses" located in Montpelier, Vermont; Brattleboro, Vermont; North...
, which also included Franconia
Franconia College
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, Nasson
Nasson College
Nasson College was a private four-year accredited liberal arts college in Springvale, Maine.It was founded in 1912 as Nasson Institute and changed its name twenty-three years later, in 1935 . It closed in 1983, after which its in-town campus sat vacant well into the 1990s.As the Nasson Institute,...
, Antioch
Antioch College
Antioch College is a private, independent liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States. It was the founder and the flagship institution of the six-campus Antioch University system. Founded in 1852 by the Christian Connection, the college began operating in 1853 with politician and...
, and several other educational institutions.
Goddard College advocates innovation in higher education as its expressed objective; in 1963, Goddard introduced the first Adult Degree Program for working adults.
In 2002, after fifty-four years, the college terminated its traditional age on-site experimental bachelor degree program. Today its more than six hundred adult students attend residencies in either Plainfield, VT or Port Townsend, WA. Only two programs are available at the Port Townsend site: the MFA in Creative Writing and the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts, which was new to Port Townsend in the fall of 2007. Also new for the fall of 2007 was the first low-residency Bachelor of Fine Arts program in creative writing.
The History of the Goddard Experiment Exhibit, 1949-1959
The History of Goddard College Exhibit, 1960-1969: An Era of Growth, Expansion, and Transitions
Academics
Programs of StudyGoddard offers a Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Master of Arts (MA), Master of Fine Arts (MFA), along with several concentrations and Licensures.
Bachelor of Arts
- BA in Education and Licensure (EDU)
- BA in Health Arts and Sciences (HAS)
- BA in Individualized Studies (IBA)
- BA in Sustainability (BAS)
* Bachelor of Fine Arts
- BFA in Creative Writing (BFA)
*Master of Arts
- MA in Individualized Studies (IMA)
- MA in Education and Licensure (EDU)
- MA in Health Arts and Sciences (HAS)
- MA in Psychology and Counseling (PSY)
- MA in Sustainable Business and Communities Program (SBC)
*Master of Fine Arts
- MFA in Creative Writing (MFA)
- MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts (MFAIA)
*Concentrations
- Community Education (EDU)
- Consciousness Studies (IMA)
- Environmental Studies (IMA)
- School Counseling (EDU)
- Sexual Orientation (PSY)
- Transformative Language Arts (IMA)
Goddard College main campus, Greatwood: Plainfield, VermontPlainfield, VermontPlainfield is a town in Washington County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,286 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Plainfield is located at ....
The campus in Plainfield was initially formed into a school in 1938 from the various shingle style buildings on a late 19th century model farm: The Greatwood Estate. Eleven new dormitory buildings were constructed adjacent to the ensemble of renovated farm buildings in 1963 to accommodate an increasing student population. The Pratt Learning Center, sited to be at the heart of a larger campus, was constructed in 1968. No other significant new construction has been added to the campus since that time.Currently Goddard College offers residencies for:
- BA and MA in Education & Licensure Program
- BA and MA in Health Arts & Sciences Program
- BA in Individualized Studies Program
- BA in Sustainability Program
- BFA in Creative Writing Program
- MA in Individualized Studies Program
- MA in Psychology & Counseling Program
- MA in Sustainable Business & Communities Program
- MFA in Creative Writing Program
- MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Program
Goddard College West campus: Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, WashingtonPort Townsend, WashingtonPort Townsend is a city in Jefferson County, Washington, United States, approximately north-northwest of Seattle . The population was 9,113 at the 2010 census an increase of 9.3% over the 2000 census. It is the county seat and only incorporated city of Jefferson County...
A former nineteenth century army base, much of the Fort has been renovated and turned into a year-round, multi-use facility which houses several organizations that comprise of The Fort Worden Collaborative. The fort sits on a bluff overlooking the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Admiralty Inlet. Currently Goddard College West offers residencies for:
- MFA in Creative Writing
- MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
- Individual Bachelor of Arts (expected 2012)
Facts
- Campus area: 175 acres (0.7 km²)
- Enrollment: approximately 800
- School type: Private
- Accreditation: The Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges
- Year founded: 1863, as Green Mountain Central Institute; in 1870 became Goddard Seminary
- Address: 123 Pitkin Road, Plainfield, Vermont 05667
- Goddard College was host to the Bread and Puppet TheaterBread and Puppet TheaterThe Bread and Puppet Theater is a politically radical puppet theater, active since the 1960s, currently based in Glover, Vermont...
in 1970-1971
Notable alumni
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(activist) - Ed Allen (writer)Ed Allen (writer)Edward Allen is an American novelist, and short story writer.-Life:He grew up in New York, and graduated from Goddard College, and attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1972....
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Case. National Teacher Of The Year, Illinois Teacher Of The Year, and winner of the Golden Apple Award for Excellence In Teaching, as well as a Presidential Citation For Civillian Service. - Jared CarterJared Carter-Background:Carter studied at Yale and at Goddard College. After military service and travel abroad, he made his home in Indianapolis, where he has lived since 1969...
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- Vermont Film Director, Screenwriter, and Professor - Tony CurtisTony CurtisTony Curtis was an American film actor whose career spanned six decades, but had his greatest popularity during the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in over 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light comedy to serious drama...
- Welsh poet - Mark DotyMark DotyMark Doty is an American poet and memoirist.-Biography:He was born in Maryville, Tennessee, earned his Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont.In 1989, his partner Wally Roberts tested...
, Poet, National Book Award winner, 2008 - Norman DubieNorman DubieNorman Dubie is an American poet.-Life:He is the author of more than eighteen books, often assuming historical personae in his works...
, Poet - Larry FeignLarry FeignLarry Feign , an American-born cartoonist, is best known for his comic strip The World of Lily Wong. He attended the University of California, Berkeley and Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, graduating with a B.A. in 1979...
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) - Ann GillespieAnn GillespieAnn Gillespie is an actress.She received a BA from Goddard College in 2003.She has used the following alternative names: Ann H. Gillespie, Mother Ann Gillespie and Rev. Ann Gillespie...
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) - Bradford GravesBradford GravesBradford Graves was a sculptor, musician, and teacher. Born in Dallas, Texas in 1939, Graves was graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1957 and attended Texas A&M University. He went to New York in 1958 and received a BA and MA from Goddard College...
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- Poet. - Wayne KarlinWayne KarlinWayne Karlin is an American author, editor, and teacher. His books include Marble Mountain, War Movies: Journeys to Vietnam, The Wished-For Country, Prisoners, Rumors and Stones, Crossover, Lost Armies, The Extras, and Us...
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- Guitarist - Jonathan KatzJonathan KatzJonathan Paul Katz is an American comedian, actor, and voice actor who is best known for his starring role in the animated sitcom Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist...
- Writer, Actor, Producer (Dr. Katz) - Neil LandauNeil LandauNeil Landau is an American screenwriter, playwright, producer, and director. His film and TV credits include the teen comedy "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead”, "Melrose Place", "The Magnificent Seven", "Doogie Howser, M.D.", "The Secret World of Alex Mack", and MTV's "Undressed”...
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, playwright, television producer - Michael LentMichael LentMichael Lent is a visual artist and curator. He was the creator and publisher of Toby Room which featured interviews and work by contemporary artists. His direction of the arts organization ArtRod led to the creation of the Tollbooth Gallery, which he curated with fellow artist Jared Pappas-Kelley...
- Visual Artist and Curator - Geraldine Clinton LittleGeraldine Clinton LittleGeraldine Clinton Little was a poet born in Northern Ireland. Emigrating to the United States with her family at age 2, she spent her life in the United States...
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- actorActorAn actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity... - David MametDavid MametDavid Alan Mamet is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter and film director.Best known as a playwright, Mamet won a Pulitzer Prize and received a Tony nomination for Glengarry Glen Ross . He also received a Tony nomination for Speed-the-Plow . As a screenwriter, he received Oscar...
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, Pulitzer prizePulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
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") - Linda McCarristonLinda McCarristonLinda McCarriston, and holding dual citizenship of Ireland and the United States, is a poet and Professor in the Department of Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Alaska Anchorage, teaching Creative Writing and Literary Arts since 1994.-Life:McCarriston had completed her Master of...
- Poet and Professor - Page McConnellPage McConnellPage Samuel McConnell is an American multi-instrumentalist most noted for his work as a songwriter and keyboardist with the American rock band Phish....
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, Professor, Author, Poverty Activist - Jane ShoreJane ShoreElizabeth "Jane" Shore was one of the many mistresses of King Edward IV of England, the first of the three whom he described respectively as "the merriest, the wiliest, and the holiest harlots" in his realm...
- (Poet) - Pamela StewartPamela StewartPamela Stewart is an American poet.She graduated from Goddard College with a BA, and from the University of Iowa with a MFA.Her work appeared in Seneca Review, and Calyx....
- Poet - Elaine TerranovaElaine Terranova-Life:She is the son of Nathan and Sadie Goldstein, She graduated from Temple University in 1961, and Goddard College, Master’s degree in 1977.She married her first husband, Philip Terranova, in 1961....
- Poet - Kenneth R. TimmermanKenneth R. TimmermanKenneth R. Timmerman is a journalist, political writer, and conservative Republican activist who in 2000 was a candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator from Maryland. Timmerman is executive director of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran, an organization that works to support...
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Notable Faculty
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, Taught Chemistry in the early 1970s.
Goddard College Community Radio (WGDR and WGDH)
Goddard is home to Goddard College Community Radio, a community-based, non-commercial, listener-supported educational radio stationRadio station
Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...
with nearly 70 volunteer programmers who live and work in central and northern Vermont and who range in age from 12 to 78 years. WGDR
WGDR
WGDR is a noncommercial American radio station licensed to Plainfield, Vermont, serving central Vermont. WGDR, owned by Goddard College Corporation, is a hybrid college/community/public radio station, broadcasting a freeform format....
, 91.1 FM, is licensed to Plainfield, Vermont. Its sister station, WGDH
WGDH
WGDH is a non-commercial educational American radio station that serves the community of Hardwick, Vermont, United States. The station, launched in 2011, is owned by Goddard College and the broadcast license is held by the Goddard College Corporation....
, 91.7 FM, is licensed to Hardwick, Vermont.
The station began as a student-driven project in the late 1960s -- a carrier-current AM station that was intended to be heard only on campus under the call letters WGOD, or "The Voice of Goddard." By 1972, the station had ceased operation and in January 1973 a course at Goddard was formed under the direction of Kirk Gardner to establish an FM station that would broadcast to the surrounding communities in Vermont. Students applied to the Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
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for an FM transmitting station license, and obtained the call letters WGDR, which had been previously used by a marine station. Students also participated in reconstruction of the space allotted in the Eliot Pratt Center Library building for the station's studios. They obtained some new studio equipment, arranged for a news service, contacted record publishers for NFS
Promotional recording
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copies of the latest released music, and organized a broadcasting schedule. A 10 Watt FM transmitter was installed with a broadcast antenna mounted on a mast on the roof of the building, directly above the studios. The first 'board' in the 'air studio' consisted of a Shure M67 mixer and a Broadcast Production Master, along with some custom built circuits. The station was broadcasting by late Spring 1973. The station remained at the 10 Watt level for at least a few years during which time, its coverage area allowed it to reach some towns in the surrounding area but not others because of the hilly terrain. Years later, the station's radiating power was upgraded with a bigger transmitter and more efficient antenna.
In 2009, WGDR received a My Source Community Impact Award for Engagement for the work it has done in the Central Vermont community. The following year, Kris Gruen was appointed station director.
In March 2011, the station expanded to a second, more-powerful (1,100-watt) trransmitter with the launch of WGDH at 91.7 FM, which simulcasts with WGDR and can be heard throughout Lamoille County in north-central Vermont and in parts of Washington, Franklin, Orange, Caledonia, Essex and Orleans counties. Today, operating under the umbrella name Goddard College Community Radio, it is the largest non-commercial community radio station in Vermont and is the only non-commercial station in the state other than the statewide Vermont Public Radio
Vermont Public Radio
-WVPR:-WRVT:-VPR Classical:Since 2007, VPR has broadcast classical music on a separate network. The main station is WOXR , which is licensed to Schuyler Falls, New York and serves the Burlington/Plattsburgh area....
network that receives funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a non-profit corporation created by an act of the United States Congress, funded by the United States’ federal government to promote public broadcasting...
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Goddard College Community Radio Mission Statement (Revised, March 2011)
WGDR and WGDH — Goddard College Community Radio — strive to inform, educate, entertain, involve, motivate, and connect its diverse communities through independent non-commercial radio programming.
As a hybrid college–community radio station, WGDR and WGDH are committed to education and training in the arts and science of community radio and to in-depth involvement in many forms by their geographic community and their communities of interest.
Goddard College Community Radio accomplishes its mission by: Engaging robust support from the stations' communities; Integrating WGDR and WGDH programming and Goddard's low-residency academic programs; Experimenting with opportunities and technology to expand beyond Central Vermont.
Related resources
- List of colleges and universities in the United States
- List of colleges and universities in Vermont
External links
- Official website - www.goddard.edu
- Stories from Goddard - Goddard College's blog
- 2008 Campus Master Plan (PDF)
- Find Goddard on Facebook at www.facebook.com/GoddardCollege