Goddard College
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Former names
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Green Mountain Central Institute & Goddard Seminary |
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| Type | Private coeducational Low Residency |
| Established | 1863 |
| President | Robert P. Kenny |
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Academic staff
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110 |
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Administrative staff
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90 |
| Students | 700 |
| Undergraduates | 235 |
| Postgraduates | 465 |
| Location | Plainfield, Vermont, United States |
| Campus | Rural 175 acres (71 ha) |
| Colors | Blue and white |
| Website | www |
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Goddard College Greatwood Campus
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Goddard College Clockhouse
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| Area | 15 acres (6.1 ha) |
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| Built | 1908 |
| Architect | James T. Kelley; Arthur Shurcliff |
| Architectural style | Shingle Style, Tudor Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 96000253 |
| Added to NRHP | March 7, 1996 |
Goddard College is an accredited private liberal arts college located in Plainfield, Vermont, Port Townsend, Washington, and Seattle, Washington, offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs. With predecessor institutions dating to 1863, Goddard College was founded in 1938 as an experimental and non-traditional educational institution based on the ideas of John Dewey: that experience and education are intricately linked.
Goddard College currently operates on an intensive low-residency model. Each student designs his/her own curriculum; the college currently uses a student self-directed, mentored system in which faculty issue narrative evaluations of student’s progress instead of grades. The intensive low-residency model requires students to come to campus every six months for approximately eight days, during which time students engage in a variety of activities and lectures from early morning until late in the evening, and create detailed study plans. During the semester students study independently, sending in "packets" to their faculty mentors every three weeks. The content of the packets varies with each individual, but focuses on research, writing, and reflection related to each student's individualized study plan.
Goddard 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. Goddard currently enrolls approximately 700 students, 30% of whom are undergraduates, and employs 110 faculty and 90 staff.
To advance cultures of rigorous inquiry, collaboration, and lifelong learning, where individuals take imaginative and responsible action in the world.
Goddard College began in 1863 in Barre, Vermont, as the Green Mountain Central Institute and in 1870 was renamed Goddard Seminary. Founded by Universalists, Goddard Seminary was a four-year preparatory high school, primarily for Tufts College. For many years the Seminary prospered. But the opening of many good public high schools made many of the New England academies obsolete. To attempt a rescue, the trustees added a Junior College to the Seminary in 1935, with a Seminary graduate, Royce S. "Tim" Pitkin, as President.
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