Bennington College, a liberal arts college founded in 1932, began as and remains an invitation to learn. Bennington is committed to the belief that teachers should do what they teach, should bring to the classroom an engagement with their discipline learned through active practice in the world. This same spirit continues to animate a faculty of working scientists, writers, scholars, and artists eager to teach, in the words of one, "what keeps them awake at night." There are 550 undergraduate and more than 100 graduate students currently enrolled at Bennington. Virtually all undergraduates live in College housing.