for Bennington College. American educator John Dewey, helped shape many of the college's signature programs such as The Plan Process and Field Work Term through his educational principles.
In 1928, six years before the college would begin, Robert Devore Leigh was recruited by the Bennington College executive committee to serve as the first president of Bennington. Leigh presided over the forging of Bennington's structure and its early operation. In 1929 Leigh authored the Bennington College Prospectus which outlined the "Bennington idea".
=== 1930s ===
Bennington was founded as a women’s college in 1932 and the first class of eighty-seven women arrived on campus that year. The college was the first to include the visual and performing arts as full-fledged elements of the liberal arts curriculum.
Every year since the college began in 1932, every Bennington College student has engaged in internships and volunteer opportunities each winter term. Originally called the Winter Field & Reading Period, the two-month …
