現在，可以參考http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennington_College 的1990s部分。
...In 1993, the Bennington College Board of Trustees initiated a process known as "The Symposium." Arguing that the college suffered from "a growing attachment to the status quo that, if unattended, is lethal to Bennington's purpose and pedagogy,"[3] the Board of Trustees "solicit[ed]...concerns and proposals on a wide and open-ended range of issues from every member of the faculty, every student, every staff member, every alumna and alumnus, and dozens of friends of the College."[4] According to the Trustees, the process was intended to reinvent the college, and the Board said it received over 600 contributions to this end.[4]
The results of the process were published in June 1994 in a 36-page document titled Symposium Report of the Bennington College Board of Trustees. Recommended changes included the following:
Adoption of a "teacher-practitioner" ideal;[5]
Abandonment of academic divisions in favor of "polymorphous, dynamically changing Faculty Program Groups";[6]Replacement of the college's system of presumptive tenure with "an experimental contract system";[7] and A 10% tuition reduction over the following five years.[8]
Near the end of June 1994, 27 faculty members (approximately one-third of the total faculty body) were notified by certified mail that their contracts would not be renewed.[9] (The exact number of fired faculty members is listed as 25 or 26 in some reports, a discrepancy partly due to the fact that at least one faculty member, photographer Neil Rappaport, was reinstated on appeal shortly after his firing.)[10] As recommended in the Symposium, the Trustees abolished the presumptive tenure system, leaving the institution with no form of tenure. The firings attracted considerable media attention...
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