Marlboro (Undergraduate) College

The liberal arts undergraduate college, at first take, seems farther than the 15 miles or so up the hill (Potash Hill) than it actually is. How did Marlboro College, an institution renowned for a proud adherence to traditional teaching and learning, spawn the Graduate Center, inside a technology center in downtown Brattleboro? A high-tech building serving students who are typically professionals in their mid-thirties? What can these campuses possibly have to offer each other?

The origins of the Graduate Center date back to 1997 with the main campus president and trustees' visionary interpretation of how the Internet was going to become a key part of every aspect of our society

The Graduate Center follows Marlboro's lead in excellent pedagogy and embraces the challenge of translating such excellence to hybrid / online environments. Adhering to these ideals made us become leaders in this field, developing courses such as Facilitating Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (FCSCL), the lessons and outcomes of which we have internalized and learnt from ourselves.

The guiding example of Marlboro's pedagogic eminence has held us to this high standard, and we are able to share the Graduate Center's decade of experience not just with focused technicians, but also with the poets, artists and educators who are discovering educational and promotional blogs and online resources as ways to complement the presentation of their work.

This synergy and symbiosis have defined the Graduate Center's ability to make intellectual inquiry and pragmatic troubleshooting bold and relevant by addressing key questions and moving to the next level of discussion around key issues in computer-supported distributed learning.

We appreciate and benefit from the practical and ideological relationship between our campuses.

All students of Marlboro College and the Graduate Center are invited to social and academic events at both places of learning.

Stop by our and Marlboro College's events pages for descriptions and notices of such happenings as the popular Monday night lecture series:http://www.marlboro.edu/news/monday_night_lectures/

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