Editing Marlboro College

{{Short description|Private coeducational liberal arts college in Marlboro, Vermont}}
{{For|the English school|Marlborough College}}
{{Infobox university
| name                  = Marlboro College
| image_size            = 150px
| established           = 1946
| closed                = 2020
| type                  = [[Private college]]
| endowment             = $40 million (2014)
| president             = [[Kevin F. Quigley]]
| city                  = [[Marlboro, Vermont|Marlboro]]
| state                 = [[Vermont]]
| country               = United States
| coordinates           = {{Coord|42|50|21|N|72|44|07|W|region:US-VT_type:edu|display=inline,title}}
| campus                = [[Rural]]: {{convert|360|acre|km2}}
| website               = {{URL|www.marlboro.edu}}
| image_name            = File:Marlboro logo transparent.png
| enrollment            = 150
| administrative_staff  = 41 full-time faculty
}}

'''Marlboro College''' was a [[private college]] in [[Marlboro, Vermont]]. Founded in 1946, it remained intentionally small, operating as a self-governing community with students following self-designed degree plans culminating in a thesis. In 1998, the college added a graduate school.

The college closed at the end of the 2019–2020 academic year and gave its endowment to [[Emerson College]] in [[Boston]] to create the Marlboro Institute of Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College.

==History==
Marlboro College was founded in 1946 by [[Walter F. Hendricks]], who had been inspired by his time as director of English at [[Biarritz American University]].<ref name=timeline1945/> Hendricks led the college for five years, until 1951, but would leave after a dispute with the trustees. He founded [[Windham College]] that same year.

Many of the first students were returning [[World War II]] veterans. The campus incorporated the buildings of three farms that were on the site at Potash Hill.<ref name="History">{{cite web |title=History |url=https://www.marlboro.edu/about/history/ |website=Marlboro College |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190730213455/https://www.marlboro.edu/about/history/ |archive-date=July 30, 2019}}</ref> The first students were primarily freshmen but included some sophomores and juniors and one senior, Hugh Mulligan, who in 1948 became the first Marlboro graduate.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Nevada Daily Mail - Google News Archive Search |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1908&dat=19581014&id=-2UfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pdQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=883,3701582 |access-date=2023-10-16 |website=news.google.com |archive-date=2023-10-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231016000944/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1908&dat=19581014&id=-2UfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pdQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=883,3701582 |url-status=live }}</ref> The students made "How Are Things At Casserole College?" the first school song in response to the dining hall menu.<ref>{{cite news |author=Hugh A. Mulligan |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1908&dat=19581014&id=-2UfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pdQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=883,3701582 |title=Hal Boyle Writes: Marlboro Class of '48 Holds a Reunion |newspaper=The Nevada Daily Mail |date=October 14, 1958 |page=2 |access-date=May 6, 2021 |archive-date=May 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506004147/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1908&dat=19581014&id=-2UfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pdQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=883,3701582 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2012, Marlboro instituted the Beautiful Minds Challenge, an essay contest for high school students with full or partial scholarships and other awards as prizes.<ref name="2016new" /> Essays could take the form of text, images, audio, or video and were judged by Marlboro faculty, staff, and students; finalists were flown to the Marlboro campus for a symposium where they presented their work.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.marlboro.edu/news/story/5123/Marlboro%20launches%202017%20Beautiful%20Minds%20Challenge |title=Marlboro launches 2017 Beautiful Minds Challenge |publisher=Marlboro College |date=2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180824101821/https://www.marlboro.edu/news/story/5123/Marlboro%20launches%202017%20Beautiful%20Minds%20Challenge |archive-date=August 24, 2018}}</ref> The program was discontinued after the 2018 competition. The Renaissance Scholars program, instituted in 2015 with the objective of attracting new students from every state and increasing diversity, caused a rise in enrollment to approximately 200 in fall 2016.<ref name="2016new" />

The college remained intentionally small;<ref>{{cite web |title=Mission |url=https://www.marlboro.edu/about/mission/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190730213528/https://www.marlboro.edu/about/mission/ |archive-date=July 30, 2019 |publisher=Marlboro College}}</ref> in 2017 it was one of only three liberal arts colleges listed by ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' where all classes had fewer than 20 students.<ref name="USNews">{{Cite web |date=September 2017 |title=Marlboro Continues to Rise in U.S. News Ranking |url=https://www.marlboro.edu/news/story/5125/Marlboro%20Continues%20to%20Rise%20in%20U.S.%20News%20Ranking |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009194727/https://www.marlboro.edu/news/story/5125/Marlboro%20Continues%20to%20Rise%20in%20U.S.%20News%20Ranking |archive-date=October 9, 2017 |publisher=Marlboro College}}</ref>

===Merger===
In 2018, Marlboro's small size and dwindling enrollment led the Board of Trustees to begin exploring merging with another college or university. In 2019, a merger with the [[University of Bridgeport]] was announced and then called off.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/09/16/marlboro-college-and-u-bridgeport-drop-plans-merge |title=No Deal |author=Colleen Flaherty |website=Inside Higher Ed |date=September 16, 2019 |access-date=November 6, 2019 |archive-date=November 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191106161542/https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/09/16/marlboro-college-and-u-bridgeport-drop-plans-merge |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Lola Duffort |url=https://vtdigger.org/2019/09/14/merger-between-marlboro-college-and-university-of-bridgeport-unravels/ |title=Merger between Marlboro College and University of Bridgeport unravels |website=VTDigger |date=September 14, 2019 |access-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504155137/https://vtdigger.org/2019/09/14/merger-between-marlboro-college-and-university-of-bridgeport-unravels/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Later that year, the college announced that it would merge with [[Emerson College]] at the end of the 2019–20 academic year.<ref>{{cite news |author=Andrew Brinker |url=https://berkeleybeacon.com/a-chat-with-marlboro-college-president-kevin-quigley/ |title=A chat with Marlboro College President Kevin Quigley |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/20210504103334/https://berkeleybeacon.com/a-chat-with-marlboro-college-president-kevin-quigley/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Under the agreement, finalized on July 23, 2020, Marlboro gave its endowment to Emerson, which created the Marlboro Institute of Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies. Marlboro students were guaranteed admission and tenure-track faculty were guaranteed teaching positions at Emerson.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.marlboro.edu/community/news/whats-next-for-marlboro/ |title=What's Next for Marlboro |date=July 23, 2020 |publisher=Marlboro College |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202061528/https://www.marlboro.edu/community/news/whats-next-for-marlboro/ |archive-date=December 2, 2020}}</ref> At the time of its closure, Marlboro had approximately 150 students.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2019/11/06/emerson-plans-absorb-marlboro |title=Emerson Plans to Absorb Marlboro |author=Scott Jaschik |website=Inside Higher Ed |date=November 6, 2019 |access-date=May 3, 2021 |archive-date=December 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204212757/https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2019/11/06/emerson-plans-absorb-marlboro |url-status=live }}</ref>

==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>

==Student life and governance==
Marlboro was founded on an ethos of independence combined with community participation. Students, faculty, and staff made decisions together in weekly "[[town meeting|Town Meeting]]s",<ref name=2016new/> and there was an elected community court. Students, faculty, and staff served on elected committees that played a role in hiring decisions and steering the curriculum. All campus buildings were open 24/7, and the library used a self-checkout honor system.

During spring and fall, students were encouraged to work regularly on the school farm. Campuswide Work Days took place each semester, with students, faculty, and staff working together on projects as needed, in the spirit of the first class, who built their own dormitories.

The administration published a magazine called ''Potash Hill''. The [[student newspaper]], ''The Citizen'', and the ''Marlboro College Literary Magazine'' were edited by students elected at Town Meetings.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.marlboro.edu/community/undergraduate/student_publications |title=Student Publications |publisher=Marlboro College |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009195421/https://www.marlboro.edu/community/undergraduate/student_publications |archive-date=October 9, 2017}}</ref>

[[Open mic]] nights at the Campus Center happened several times a semester in addition to events including the Drag Ball, MayFest, and Apple Days, and other events. The night before writing portfolios were due, a "Midnight Breakfast" was held.

The college had few organized sports teams, but the "Outdoor Program" promoted rock climbing, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, white-water kayaking, caving, canoeing, and hiking, and college was only 15&nbsp;miles from the [[Mount Snow]] ski resort. A [[broomball]] tournament was held every February beginning in 1990.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reformer.com/local-news/clean-sweep-in-marlboro/article_41b83808-c1e1-51a0-aa80-2f7a89b27756.html |title=Clean sweep in Marlboro |newspaper=Brattleboro Reformer |date=February 9, 2009 |access-date=May 5, 2021 |archive-date=May 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506004148/https://www.reformer.com/local-news/clean-sweep-in-marlboro/article_41b83808-c1e1-51a0-aa80-2f7a89b27756.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |author=Larry Parnass |url=https://upcountryonline.wordpress.com/2017/02/28/the-joy-of-broomball/ |title=The Joy of Broomball |magazine=UpCountry magazine |date=February 28, 2017 |access-date=May 5, 2021 |archive-date=May 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506205705/https://upcountryonline.wordpress.com/2017/02/28/the-joy-of-broomball/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Campus==
[[File:Marlboro College dining hall and Mather.jpg|thumb|Dining hall and Mather Building]]
[[File:Whittemore Theater, Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont.jpg|thumb|Whittemore Theater and Drury Gallery]]

The Marlboro College campus is located on South Road in the town of Marlboro, Vermont, in the [[Green Mountains]]. In the early years of the college, students and faculty worked together to adapt the buildings of three farms on the site,<ref name=History/> which became the main classroom building, the dining hall, and the admissions and administration buildings.

Through grants from federal, state and private entities, the college improved the energy efficiency of the Dining Hall, Dalrymple classroom building, Mather administration building, and Admissions building since 2008, as well as the student residences. In summer 2011, the half-circle driveway at the campus entrance was converted to green space and walking paths.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}

The Serkin Performing Arts Center has a 125-seat auditorium, an electronic music lab, practice rooms with baby grand pianos and a 5,000-square foot dance studio. Whittemore Theater, used primarily by the Theater department, was attached to Drury Gallery, which displayed student works.

The Snyder Center for the Visual Arts, housing studios, classrooms, and gallery spaces in 14,000&nbsp;square feet, opened in May 2016.<ref name=2016new>{{cite news |author=Chris Mays |url=https://vtdigger.org/2016/09/18/new-semester-brings-big-changes-marlboro-college-campus/ |title=New semester brings big changes on Marlboro College campus |newspaper=Brattleboro Reformer |date=September 18, 2016 |orig-year=September 16, 2016 |via=VTDigger |access-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504103343/https://vtdigger.org/2016/09/18/new-semester-brings-big-changes-marlboro-college-campus/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.marlboro.edu/news/story/4572/community-dedicates-visual-arts-center |title=Community Dedicates Visual Arts Center |date=May 2016 |publisher=Marlboro College |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009194027/https://www.marlboro.edu/news/story/4572/community-dedicates-visual-arts-center |archive-date=October 9, 2017}}</ref>

In the summer, the campus is the location of the [[Marlboro Music Festival]], founded in 1951.<ref name=Reformer>{{cite news |author=Chris Mays |url=https://www.reformer.com/local-news/higher-education-music-festival-to-stay-at-marlboro-after-sale/article_1e2d97cf-6e35-5c81-aabd-9fb08cd7a0cc.html |title=Higher education, music festival to stay at Marlboro after sale |newspaper=Brattleboro Reformer |date=July 30, 2020 |access-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504103334/https://www.reformer.com/local-news/higher-education-music-festival-to-stay-at-marlboro-after-sale/article_1e2d97cf-6e35-5c81-aabd-9fb08cd7a0cc.html |url-status=live }}</ref> A new 99-year lease was signed in February 2019 and a residence hall and the Jerome and Celia Reich Building, containing a music library and chamber music rehearsal spaces, are scheduled for completion in 2021.<ref>{{cite news |author=Richard Henke |url=http://www.commonsnews.org/site/sitenext/story.php?articleno=29851 |title=Play on! Marlboro Music inks deal to remain at Marlboro College for next century |newspaper=The Commons |date=February 13, 2019 |access-date=May 5, 2021 |archive-date=May 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505084838/http://www.commonsnews.org/site/sitenext/story.php?articleno=29851 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Sale===
The former Marlboro campus was sold in May 2020 to Democracy Builders, founded by [[Seth Andrew]], which intended to use it for a low-residency, low-cost college program for low-income students. The Degrees of Freedom program would last four years, from [[eleventh grade]] to the second year of college, and would result in an [[associate degree]].<ref name=Reformer/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.marlboro.edu/community/news/what-is-next-for-marlboro/updates/?id=73 |title=What's Next For Marlboro: Update on Marlboro College Campus |publisher=Marlboro College |date=May 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926041325/https://www.marlboro.edu/community/news/what-is-next-for-marlboro/updates/?id=73 |archive-date=September 26, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Madeline St. Amour |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/05/29/charter-school-group-start-new-higher-ed-program-marlboro-college-campus |title=Marlboro to Become New 2-Year Program |website=Inside Higher Ed |date=May 29, 2020 |access-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504103343/https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/05/29/charter-school-group-start-new-higher-ed-program-marlboro-college-campus |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Ellie French |url=https://vtdigger.org/2020/05/28/marlboro-college-announces-campus-sale-to-democracy-builders/ |title=Marlboro College announces campus sale to Democracy Builders |website=VTDigger |date=May 28, 2020 |access-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504155126/https://vtdigger.org/2020/05/28/marlboro-college-announces-campus-sale-to-democracy-builders/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Visconti |first1=Ambrogio |title=Democracy Builders' Acquisition of Marlboro College |url=https://www.globallegalchronicle.com/democracy-builders-acquisition-of-marlboro-college/ |website=Global Legal Chronicle |date=2 June 2020 |access-date=9 June 2020 |archive-date=9 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609155223/https://www.globallegalchronicle.com/democracy-builders-acquisition-of-marlboro-college/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Audette |first1=Bob |title=New model of higher education could take root in Marlboro |url=https://www.benningtonbanner.com/stories/new-model-of-higher-education-could-take-root-in-marlboro,605740 |access-date=9 June 2020 |publisher=The Bennington Banner |date=May 28, 2020 |archive-date=9 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609155248/https://www.benningtonbanner.com/stories/new-model-of-higher-education-could-take-root-in-marlboro,605740 |url-status=live }}</ref> The program was slated to be largely [[distance education|online]], with students only being on campus two weeks out of each trimester.<ref>{{cite news |last1=St. Amour |first1=Madeline |title=Marlboro to Become New 2-Year Program |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/05/29/charter-school-group-start-new-higher-ed-program-marlboro-college-campus |access-date=9 June 2020 |publisher=Inside Higher Education |date=May 29, 2020 |archive-date=8 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200608230648/https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/05/29/charter-school-group-start-new-higher-ed-program-marlboro-college-campus |url-status=live }}</ref>

In February 2021, Andrew announced that Democracy Builders had sold the campus to "Type 1 Civilization Academy" via a quitclaim deed.<ref>{{cite news |last=Audette |first=Bob |date=2021-02-03 |title=Marlboro College campus has new owner |url=https://www.reformer.com/local-news/marlboro-college-campus-has-new-owner/article_aab37cf2-6639-11eb-93e6-ffd1e24375b6.html |work=Brattleboro Reformer |access-date=2021-04-28 |archive-date=2021-04-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427233616/https://www.reformer.com/local-news/marlboro-college-campus-has-new-owner/article_aab37cf2-6639-11eb-93e6-ffd1e24375b6.html |url-status=live }}</ref> On March 9, 2021, During an invitation-only community meeting on Zoom, Andrew announced that the Type 1 deal had been cancelled. He called the agreement "an engagement" rather than "a marriage".<ref>{{cite news |date=2021-03-10 |title=Deal is off for campus sale |url=http://www.commonsnews.org/site/sitenext/story.php?articleno=33706 |work=The Commons |access-date=2021-04-28 |archive-date=2021-04-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429020323/http://www.commonsnews.org/site/sitenext/story.php?articleno=33706 |url-status=live }}</ref> Andrew filed another quit claim deed which transferred the property back to Democracy Builders. The principal of Type 1, Adrian Stein, said that Type 1 was legitimately in control of the campus and that the issue will likely end up in court unless they can find "some other kind of equitable settlement."<ref>{{cite news |last=Audette |first=Bob |date=2021-03-10 |title=Potash Hill deal not consummated, Democracy Builders says it retains ownership of former Marlboro College campus |url=https://www.reformer.com/local-news/potash-hill-deal-not-consummated-democracy-builders-says-it-retains-ownership-of-former-marlboro-college/article_df571cbc-7dd5-11eb-9bad-cf739d05e872.html |work=Brattleboro Reformer |access-date=2021-04-28 |archive-date=2021-04-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427191946/https://www.reformer.com/local-news/potash-hill-deal-not-consummated-democracy-builders-says-it-retains-ownership-of-former-marlboro-college/article_df571cbc-7dd5-11eb-9bad-cf739d05e872.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Opening of the Democracy Builders program was deferred in April 2021 after Andrew was charged with financial crimes.<ref>{{cite news |author=Lola Duffort |url=https://vtdigger.org/2021/04/30/degrees-of-freedom-delays-opening/ |title=Degrees of Freedom, the Marlboro-based project founded by Seth Andrew, delays opening |date=April 30, 2021 |access-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504103353/https://vtdigger.org/2021/04/30/degrees-of-freedom-delays-opening/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In July 2021, the campus was purchased by the Marlboro Music Festival. <ref>{{cite news |author=Susan Smallheer |url=https://www.reformer.com/local-news/marlboro-music-festival-buys-marlboro-college-campus-ending-year-of-turmoil/article_d33c734e-eb23-11eb-9f36-7f835920af1b.html |title=Marlboro Music Festival buys Marlboro College campus, ending year of turmoil |date=July 22, 2021 |access-date=July 7, 2022 |archive-date=July 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220729071154/https://www.reformer.com/local-news/marlboro-music-festival-buys-marlboro-college-campus-ending-year-of-turmoil/article_d33c734e-eb23-11eb-9f36-7f835920af1b.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The Marlboro Music Festival formed the subsidiary nonprofit organization, Potash Hill, Inc. to manage the property.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hall |first=C. B. |date=September 21, 2022 |title=Atop Marlboro's Potash Hill, new prospects |url=https://vermontbiz.com/news/2022/september/21/atop-marlboros-potash-hill-new-prospects |access-date=October 4, 2022 |archive-date=October 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221003213253/https://vermontbiz.com/news/2022/september/21/atop-marlboros-potash-hill-new-prospects |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Notable people==

=== Presidents ===

# [[Walter F. Hendricks]] (1946–1951)
# Dave Lovejoy (1951–1953)
# Paul Zens (1953–1957)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Marlboro College Prepares to Expand {{!}} News {{!}} The Harvard Crimson |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1957/10/10/marlboro-college-prepares-to-expand-pthis/ |access-date=2024-01-27 |website=www.thecrimson.com}}</ref>
# Roland Boden (1957–1958; acting)
# [[Tom Ragle]] (1958–1981)
# Rod Gander (1981–1996)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=PAUL H. HEINTZ, Reformer |date=2007-09-25 |title=Rod Gander dies at 76 |url=https://www.reformer.com/local-news/rod-gander-dies-at-76/article_ea39e376-e82c-5824-86b4-de20f3f76ea2.html |access-date=2023-10-16 |website=Brattleboro Reformer |language=en |archive-date=2023-08-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230830103045/https://www.reformer.com/local-news/rod-gander-dies-at-76/article_ea39e376-e82c-5824-86b4-de20f3f76ea2.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
# [[Paul LeBlanc (university president)|Paul LeBlanc]] (1996–2003)<ref>{{Cite web |title=The EvoLLLution |url=https://evolllution.com/author/paul-leblanc |access-date=2023-10-16 |website=evolllution.com |language=en |archive-date=2023-11-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231130083816/https://evolllution.com/author/paul-leblanc |url-status=live }}</ref>
# [[Ellen McCulloch-Lovell]] (2003–2014)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Marlboro College names new president |url=https://www.commonsnews.org/issue/292/Marlboro-College-names-new-president |access-date=2023-10-16 |website=Marlboro College names new president |language=en |archive-date=2023-11-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231130083815/https://www.commonsnews.org/issue/292/Marlboro-College-names-new-president |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ellen McCulloch-Lovell {{!}} Bennington College |url=https://www.bennington.edu/bennington-network/outsized-impact/ellen-mcculloch-lovell |access-date=2023-10-16 |website=www.bennington.edu |archive-date=2023-11-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231130083821/https://www.bennington.edu/bennington-network/outsized-impact/ellen-mcculloch-lovell |url-status=live }}</ref>
# [[Kevin F. F. Quigley]] (2015–2020)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Marlboro College names new president |url=https://www.commonsnews.org/issue/292/Marlboro-College-names-new-president |access-date=2023-10-16 |website=Marlboro College names new president |language=en |archive-date=2023-11-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231130083815/https://www.commonsnews.org/issue/292/Marlboro-College-names-new-president |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Faculty===
* [[Wyn Cooper]]
* [[Jay Craven]]
* [[Paul LeBlanc (college president)|Paul J. LeBlanc]], later became president of [[Southern New Hampshire University]].
* [[Peter Lefcourt]], literature and writing (1968-1970)
* [[Leslie Lamport]] (1960s)
* [[David Mamet]] (one semester)
* [[Joseph Mazur]], mathematics
* [[Blanche Honegger Moyse]], music
* [[Louis Moyse]], music

===Alumni===
* [[David Asman]], ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' editor, television journalist
* [[Shura Baryshnikov]], dancer
* [[Deni Ellis Béchard]], novelist
* [[Sophie Cabot Black]], poet
* [[Regina Lee Blaszczyk]], academic
* [[Sara Coffey]], member of the [[Vermont House of Representatives]]
* [[Sean Cole]], journalist
* [[Alicia Dana]], Paralympian
* [[Marcus DeSieno]], lens-based artist
* [[Deborah Eisenberg]], author (left after two years)
* [[Ed Fallon]], member of the [[Iowa House of Representatives]]
* [[Gretchen Gerzina]], author and academic
* [[Harold Grinspoon]], real estate developer and philanthropist
* [[Daniel Harple]], entrepreneur and investor
* [[Parnell Hall (writer)|Parnell Hall]], novelist
* [[Joshua Harmon (poet)|Joshua Harmon]], poet, novelist, and essayist
* [[Geoffrey Holt (philanthropist)|Geoffrey Holt]], philanthropist
* [[Emilie Kornheiser]], member of the [[Vermont House of Representatives]]
* [[Ted Levine]], actor
* [[Robert H. MacArthur]], ecologist
* [[Arthur Magida]], author and journalist
* [[Cate Marvin]], poet
* [[Jonathan Maslow]], journalist and author
* [[William D. Mundell]], poet
* [[Chris Noth]], actor
* [[David Rhodes (author)|David Rhodes]], novelist
* [[Hans Rickheit]], cartoonist (left after one year)
* [[Tristan Roberts (politician)|Tristan Roberts]], member of the Vermont House of Representatives
* [[Eneriko Seruma]], poet and novelist
* [[Jock Sturges]], portrait photographer
* [[Tristan Toleno]], member of the [[Vermont House of Representatives]]
* [[Charlotte Watts]], mathematician, epidemiologist, and academic

===Staff===
* [[Robert Frost]], poet, was the college's first trustee and former teacher of the college's founder, Walter Hendricks<ref name=timeline1945>{{Cite web |url=https://www.marlboro.edu/about/history/timeline |title=Marlboro College Through The Years |publisher=Marlboro College |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009193910/https://www.marlboro.edu/about/history/timeline |archive-date=October 9, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Wikipedia Library |url=https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/?next_url=/ezproxy/r/ezp.2aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuanN0b3Iub3JnL3N0YWJsZS80Mzg5NzI5MD9zZWFyY2hUZXh0PSUyMndhbHRlcitoZW5kcmlja3MlMjImc2VhcmNoVXJpPS9hY3Rpb24vZG9CYXNpY1NlYXJjaD9RdWVyeT0lMjUyMndhbHRlcitoZW5kcmlja3MlMjUyMiZhYl9zZWdtZW50cz0wL2Jhc2ljX3BocmFzZV9zZWFyY2gvY29udHJvbCZyZWZyZXFpZD1mYXN0bHktZGVmYXVsdDo0Yjg3NzU0NGRmODUzM2NiOTUzYTNiYjQ1NzM4YzczZQ-- |access-date=2023-09-30 |website=wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org |archive-date=2023-12-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231216111100/https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/?next_url=/ezproxy/r/ezp.2aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuanN0b3Iub3JnL3N0YWJsZS80Mzg5NzI5MD9zZWFyY2hUZXh0PSUyMndhbHRlcitoZW5kcmlja3MlMjImc2VhcmNoVXJpPS9hY3Rpb24vZG9CYXNpY1NlYXJjaD9RdWVyeT0lMjUyMndhbHRlcitoZW5kcmlja3MlMjUyMiZhYl9zZWdtZW50cz0wL2Jhc2ljX3BocmFzZV9zZWFyY2gvY29udHJvbCZyZWZyZXFpZD1mYXN0bHktZGVmYXVsdDo0Yjg3NzU0NGRmODUzM2NiOTUzYTNiYjQ1NzM4YzczZQ-- |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Ethan Gilsdorf]], author, worked in the marketing department in the late 1990s

==See also==
* [[List of colleges and universities in Vermont]]

==References==
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== External links ==
{{Commons}}
* [http://www.marlboro.edu Marlboro College Archives at Emerson College]

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