Our very own scholar-in-residence Bill McKibben on late night television: McKibben: “Take an example. Middlebury College, where I work, is probably the greenest college campus in the world. I’m always telling the kids there, changing the last lightbulb here is less important than going out and building the political movement.” Letterman: “Well, Bill, […]
And the school year events promotion begins. Don’t miss this. Professor Jay Parini writes in an email to English majors: On Tuesday night, September 7, at 7:30, Ian McEwan will read from his fiction in Mead Chapel. This is a major event for us, as McEwan is widely admired in the world as a novelist and […]
Before the financial crisis of 2008, Middlebury College had a long and beneficial relationship with Lehman Brothers, the financial firm that filed for the largest bankruptcy ever. Dick Fuld, the company’s CEO at the time it went bankrupt, served as a trustee of the College until last year. He also gave millions to the College […]
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