The college is taking volunteers to recruit students.

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Marlboro College fights to stay alive

One hint that Marlboro College may not be for everyone: the 6-foot-high wooden poles sticking out of the ground, lining the walkways. They’re guides for the snow plows, an ominous sign of the coming winter.

“I didn’t even know what a proper winter jacket was until I came here,” said sophomore Alex Quick from Pennsylvania.

Marlboro was founded in 1946 on an old farm in southern Vermont. It was built to be a different kind of college, where students direct their own learning. There are no core course requirements or traditional majors. Students spend their junior and senior years on a self-designed independent study.