Southern Vermont College
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| Established | 1926 |
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| President | David R. Evans, Ph.D. |
| Provost | James C. White II, PhD |
| Students | 500 |
| Location | Bennington, Vermont |
| Colors | Green and Gold |
| Website | Southern Vermont College |
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Southern Vermont College is a private, four-year liberal arts college located on the 371-acre (1.50 km2) former Edward Everett Estate (originally called The Orchards) near Bennington, Vermont in the southwestern corner of the state bordering New York and Massachusetts.
Southern Vermont College was founded in 1926 as St. Joseph Business School, an institution offering certificates of proficiency in secretarial accounting, finance, shorthand and typewriting. Eleven students were in the first graduating class. In 1962, it became an accredited junior college, St. Joseph College, awarding associate degrees in business and secretarial science.
Twelve years later, in 1974, the school moved to its current location on the Everett Estate and became Southern Vermont College, a nonsectarian liberal arts college offering a career-directed curriculum. In the years immediately following this change of location, the College earned bachelor's degree authority from the Vermont Department of Education and full accreditation with the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
The 27-room Everett Mansion, listed (along with most of the campus) on the National Register of Historic Places, serves as the College's primary administrative and academic building. It was built 1911–14 for Edward H. Everett, a successful businessman from Cleveland, Ohio, and is architecturally a distinctive combination of Beaux Arts and Norman Revival styles, designed by George Oakley Totten. It hosts the library, theatre, Center for Teaching and Learning (academic support), Burgdorff Gallery, eight classrooms, plus administrative offices. From 1977 to 1994, the theatre served as the residence for the regionally acclaimed Oldcastle Theatre Company.
The college currently has five residence halls, as well as a new residence hall complex, Hunter Hall, that was completed in 2009 and accommodates 110 residential students. The new residence hall, situated on the slopes of Mt. Anthony with a spectacular view of the Green Mountains, is both a living and learning facility, equipped with science and computer labs, study rooms, and a spacious atrium overlooking a newly restored pond. Other notable buildings include the Dining Hall, Mountaineer Athletic Center with Fitness Center, and a 24-hour Computer Lab with wireless workstations for remote Internet access and high-speed data transfer.
Southern Vermont College is a member of the Association of Vermont Independent Colleges (AVIC) and the Vermont Campus Compact, affiliated with the national association of colleges that include community service, hands-on learning and civic engagement as part of their academic requirements. All first-year students at Southern Vermont College take "Quest for Success," a course that combines classroom instruction with off-campus community projects in such fields as environmental restoration, research on historic objects in the local museum work with a local theater company, and media studies with Community Access Television.
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