A Trustee's Criticism of Faculty Members Throws Bennington Into a New Period of Turmoil

A trustee's call for Bennington College faculty leaders to be tougher on colleagues whose contracts are up for renewal has thrown the institution into turmoil again.

All five members of a faculty panel that makes recommendations on professors' employment contracts resigned from the panel last month in protest.

In addition, a well-regarded professor, Roland Merullo, has decided to leave Bennington, in large part because the college's president fired a

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