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...Board of Trustees of Bennington College will hold a special meeting this morning to consider its course of action in the aftermath of two separate votes of "no confidence" in President Gail Parker '64 taken by the college's faculty and students last week...
...virtually unanimous "no confidence" votes were taken last Wednesday, after the Bennington faculty was presented with a report on the future of the college which had been drafted by an appointed committee without outside student or faculty input...
...report calls for sweeping changes in the organization of the college, including the elimination of nearly one-fifth of Bennington's full-time faculty positions, aimed primarily at easing the institution's growing financial problems...
Harry W. Pearson, an Economics professor at Bennington and a spokesman for its faculty, said yesterday that the ad hoc committee on future directions, which consisted of three faculty members, Parker, and several Bennington trustees, presented the faculty with "what amounted to a fait accompli." He added that a committee memo attached to the report charged the faculty with "implementation of the report, and not deliberation" of its contents...
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