Editing Marlboro College (section)

==Academics==
===Undergraduate===
[[File:Marlboro library 112896728.jpg|thumb|Library]]
Freshmen were required to meet the "Clear Writing Requirement" by submitting an acceptable portfolio of at least 20 pages (4,000 words) of nonfiction writing to the English Committee.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Marlboro College |title=Clear Writing Program |url=https://nook.marlboro.edu/public/academics/clear_writing |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130909060423/https://nook.marlboro.edu/public/academics/clear_writing |archive-date=September 9, 2013}}</ref>

With the guidance of professors, juniors and seniors developed and followed an individualized "Plan of Concentration", often interdisciplinary, of which at least 20% was required to consist of an independent project prepared without direct faculty input; most students' plans culminated in a thesis. Students defended their work in an oral examination before one or more Marlboro faculty members and an outside evaluator unconnected to the college but with expertise in the student's field of study.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.marlboro.edu/academics/undergraduate/plan-of-concentration |title=Plan of Concentration |publisher=Marlboro College |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170613185528/https://www.marlboro.edu/academics/undergraduate/plan-of-concentration |archive-date=June 13, 2017}}</ref>

Marlboro's strengths included Asian studies, religion and theology, and life sciences.<ref>{{cite book |author=Loren Pope |title=Colleges That Change Lives |edition=2nd |year=2006 |location=New York |publisher=Penguin |isbn=9780143037361 |pages=77–78 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NTZ1NwsqvXAC&pg=PA77 |access-date=2021-05-06 |archive-date=2021-05-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506004147/https://books.google.com/books?id=NTZ1NwsqvXAC&pg=PA77 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In March 2014, Marlboro and five nearby colleges, [[Community College of Vermont]], [[Landmark College]], the [[School for International Training]], [[Vermont College of Union Institute & University|Union Institute]], and [[Vermont Technical College]], formed the Windham Higher Education Cooperative, allowing students to take one course a semester at another participating institution.<ref>{{cite news |author=Howard Weiss-Tisman |url=https://vtdigger.org/2014/03/04/six-southern-vermont-colleges-announce-collaboration/ |title=Six southern Vermont colleges announce collaboration |newspaper=Brattleboro Reformer |date=March 4, 2014 |via=VTDigger |access-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504103343/https://vtdigger.org/2014/03/04/six-southern-vermont-colleges-announce-collaboration/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Graduate{{anchor|Graduate_School}}===
Marlboro College Graduate and Professional Studies began in 1998.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://marlboro.emerson.edu/gps-celebrates-20-years-of-innovative-graduate-education/ |title=GPS Celebrates 20 Years of Innovative Graduate Education |publisher=Marlboro College |via=Emerson College |date=December 5, 2018 |access-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504103334/https://marlboro.emerson.edu/gps-celebrates-20-years-of-innovative-graduate-education/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Primarily aimed at working professionals and focused on technology, in 2010 it shifted to programs focused on socially responsible management<ref>{{cite news |author=Marlboro College |url=https://vtdigger.org/2016/05/09/marlboro-college-graduate-professional-studies-announces-new-management-degrees/ |title=Marlboro College Graduate & Professional Studies Announces New Management Degrees |website=VTDigger |date=May 6, 2016 |access-date=May 4, 2021 |type=press release |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504121754/https://vtdigger.org/2016/05/09/marlboro-college-graduate-professional-studies-announces-new-management-degrees/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and master's studies in teaching (teaching with technology, teaching for social justice, and [[Teaching English as a second or foreign language|TESOL]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.marlboro.edu/academics/graduate/teaching |title=Teaching For Transformation |publisher=Marlboro College Graduate and Professional Studies |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170613190141/https://www.marlboro.edu/academics/graduate/teaching |archive-date=June 13, 2017}}</ref> later added an accelerated Master's track open to undergraduates in some programs.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.marlboro.edu/news/story/5085/Marlboro%20Launches%20Accelerated%20Master’s%20Track |title=Marlboro Launches Accelerated Masters Track |publisher=Marlboro College |type=broken link}}</ref>

The graduate school was initially located in nearby [[Brattleboro, Vermont|Brattleboro]]. It moved to the main college campus in Marlboro in April 2017,<ref>{{Cite news |author=Mike Faher |url=http://www.reformer.com/stories/marlboro-college-consolidates-campuses,503176 |title=Marlboro College consolidates campuses |newspaper=Brattleboro Reformer |date=April 2, 2017 |access-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-date=October 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009195639/http://www.reformer.com/stories/marlboro-college-consolidates-campuses,503176 |url-status=live }}</ref> and after that offered courses increasingly online<ref>{{cite web |author=Caleb Clark |url=https://www.ibrattleboro.com/culture/education/2018/04/marlboro-colleges-teaching-with-technology-masters-program-is-going-fully-online-beginning-in-fall-2018/ |title=Marlboro College's Teaching with Technology Masters Program is Going Fully Online Beginning in Fall 2018 |website=iBrattleboro |date=April 17, 2018 |access-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504103337/https://www.ibrattleboro.com/culture/education/2018/04/marlboro-colleges-teaching-with-technology-masters-program-is-going-fully-online-beginning-in-fall-2018/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and instituted a [[teach-out]]. Enrollment was suspended for 2019–20 and graduate programs were not transferred to Emerson under the merger agreement.<ref>{{cite news |author=Andrew Brinker |url=https://berkeleybeacon.com/marlboro-graduate-school-facing-imminent-closure/ |title=Marlboro Graduate School facing imminent closure |newspaper=The Berkeley Beacon |date=November 14, 2019 |access-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504103335/https://berkeleybeacon.com/marlboro-graduate-school-facing-imminent-closure/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Andrew Brinker |url=https://berkeleybeacon.com/marlboro-graduate-school-staff-left-unaware-of-closure-track/ |title=Marlboro graduate school staff left unaware of closure track |newspaper=The Berkeley Beacon |date=November 22, 2019 |access-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504103337/https://berkeleybeacon.com/marlboro-graduate-school-staff-left-unaware-of-closure-track/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Rankings and reputation===
In ''[[The Princeton Review]]''{{'}}s 2014 annual college guide, Marlboro College received the highest possible academic rating of 99 and was ranked #1 nationally for the quality of its faculty.<ref>{{cite news |author=Marlboro College |url=http://vtdigger.org/2013/08/07/marlboro-college-professors-ranked-1-nationally-by-princeton-review/ |title=Marlboro College professors ranked #1 nationally by Princeton Review |date=August 7, 2013 |access-date=May 4, 2021 |website=VTDigger |type=press release |archive-date=July 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707095442/https://vtdigger.org/2013/08/07/marlboro-college-professors-ranked-1-nationally-by-princeton-review/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2017, ''U.S. News & World Report'' ranked it #117 among liberal arts colleges in the United States.<ref name=USNews/>

In 2006 [[Loren Pope]] wrote in ''[[Colleges That Change Lives]]'' that "the Marlboro adventure" was "far more intense and intellectually demanding than Harvard, any other Ivy, or Ivy clone".<ref>Pope (2006) [https://books.google.com/books?id=NTZ1NwsqvXAC&pg=PA76 p.&nbsp;76] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510144423/https://books.google.com/books?id=NTZ1NwsqvXAC&pg=PA76 |date=2021-05-10 }}.</ref>