Members of the Board of Trustees discussed the College’s financial state and promoted two faculty members to the position of associate professor at their Dec. 10 meeting in New York.
The one-day meeting focused on discussions of the budgets for the fiscal years of 2011, 2012 and 2013. Members of the board discussed the steps the College has made to bring those budgets in line with the resources predicted to be available.
“We spent a lot of time discussing the assumptions we use in our financial model for planning purposes, and the changes we are considering for future planning that will us to balance our budgets beyond next year,” said President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz.
Trustees also heard a report about the possibility of an online partnership to create language materials. Students in the Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy program would utilize those resources, according to Liebowitz.
Additionally, the board approved the promotions of political science professor Kateri Carmola and sociology and anthropology professor Michael Sheridan to the rank of associate professor. The promotions take effect on July 1, 2010.
Carmola arrived at the College in 2001 after receiving her B.A. from the University of Chicago and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkley. Her research interests combine the fields of political philosophy and security studies. Her book Private Security Contractors in the Age of New Wars: Risk, Law, and Ethics will appear in 2010.
Sheridan came to the College in 2006 after earning his B.A. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Boston University. He taught previously at the University of Vermont. He is highly regarded in the fields of environmental anthropology, environmental history and African history. His book, Cooling the Land: Scale, Power, and Political Ecology in North Pare, Tanzania, is in preparation.
The trustees will next meet February 18-20 in Middlebury.
Middbrief: Trustees discuss financial models
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