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...Board of Trustees of Bennington College Saturday named Joseph S. Iseman '37, a board member, as acting president of Bennington. Iseman replaces Gail Thain Parker '64, a former assistant professor of History and Literature at Harvard, who resigned the presidency of the embattled Vermont school last week...
...Mary Burton-Beinecke Bennington, Vt. ... and another man coordinated the reporting and edited the story. It looks suspiciously as if TIME had women do the work to compile the cover story but still had men "put it all together." Why did your effort stop short...
...last month, it aroused furious opposition. The committee suggested the elimination of twelve of the 73 full-time faculty positions and nine assistantships; an increase in student costs (which at $6,280 for tuition, room and board, are already the highest in the nation), and a requirement that Bennington's 600 students major in two entirely different fields. The report also attacked the sacrosanct institution of faculty tenure; it proposed setting up an elaborate system (involving three separate contracts) to review a faculty member's performance three times in 13 years, with "a clearly expressed expectation that...
...only three members of the "futures committee" were from the teaching staff and charged that no other faculty members or students had been consulted in preparing the report. Most of the fire was directed at Parker and seemed to go beyond the controversial proposals. Said dissident Trustee Ross Zucker (Bennington '74): "People have learned not to like her. She was young. She was a woman. Bennington did not look deeper than that. It should have. She's an elitist." Literature Teacher Camille Paglia accused Parker of "disgusting manipulation. She has created a feeling of queasiness that was never...
Last week the trustees reaffirmed their support of Parker but then took a diplomatic step back, promising they would meet with students, faculty and alumnae to discuss the report. For her part, Parker is standing firm. Says she: "Bennington has to define its goals. This is something that the college has done before, but the pressures are greater now. That heats up the situation." Despite the turmoil, Parker remains optimistic...