Education

Sally Mann graduated from the Putney School, an private high school, in 1969 located in Putney, Vermont. During her youthful years at Putney she found her natural passion and talent for photography. There she took her first photography course and made her debut in photography with a photograph of a nude classmate.

She attended three colleges: Bennington College, Friends World College, and Hollins College. While at Hollins College she earned her Bacherlors of Art degree and graduated with summa cum laude in 1974. There she also received her Masters of Art degree in creative writing in 1975. ____________________________________________________________________________________

The Putney School was founded by Carmelita Hinton in 1935. It is a college-preparatory boarding school for both young men and women. The academy enrolls about 225 students a year. They offer education to day-students which is located in another building located in Brattleboro, Vermont. It is set on top of a hill embodied by five-hundred acres of land.

Putney's primary focus for the students are academics, the arts, physical education, and work programs. To teach the students the value of labor, they make it mandatory that the students work on the dairy farm which is a portion of the campus. In fact, most of the campus' buildings were built by their faculty and students.

The Boston Globe addressed Putney's success by writing: "The school's combination of a New England work ethic and a strong academic program, its pioneering of coeducation and community service and its emphasis on music and the arts have made it a model for other independent schools...Putney remains committed to the total community of work and schooling that goes far beyond the more limited pieces of its tradition adopted by other schools."
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In 1932, Bennington College, a liberal arts school, first opened its doors as a women's college and then reformed itself in 1969 as a co-educational school. It is known for its performing arts center and was the first institution to recognize this form of study as an equal to liberal arts majors. It has also been given great recognition for writing. Their main course of action is to strive to push students to the peak of their educational capabilities. to guide them in the direction of their greatest potential; and to enlarge, deepen, and transform their lives.
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Long Island University Global (LIU Global), formerly known as Friends World College originated in Southampton, New York. In the fall of 2005, the curriculum shifted to LIU while also founding the New York City Center. And in 2007, Friends World College was revived into Global College. Finally, in early 2012, LIU opened a rebranding operation

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