Editing Marlboro College (section)

===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>