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MiddCORE, the college’s experiential learning program, recently announced its partnership with OpenAI for its 2026 J-Term session. Serving as a credit-bearing J-Term class, MiddCORE’s winter program requires a competitive application process and involves working with a company partner to take on challenges and foster leadership and problem-solving skills.
Since the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions ended, staffing has generally improved on campus. However, several departments still face the burden of being undersupported, especially in light of the budget cuts announced in April. The cuts reduced staff and faculty retirement benefits and offered some staff a financial incentive to retire early.
Two weeks ago, I made the case for specifying the global problems you wish to spend years on. Today I want to place these choices at the right altitude, because from arm’s length everything blurs and from 10 years out it usually becomes embarrassingly clear. Set aside the buzz lines, and your career adds up to about 40-50 years, roughly 80,000 working hours. That is the single largest block of time you will ever control. Life is smaller than it feels, and if you do not decide what those hours are for, inertia will determine it for you.
Since the Covid-19 pandemic, persistent staffing shortages have strained Middlebury’s dining team. On Aug. 15, to combat recruitment challenges, the college’s Human Resources Office launched a three week targeted pilot referral program, offering a $500 bonus in December to faculty and staff members if they helped to recruit a new dining employee.
This past Saturday, Sept. 20, the Town of Middlebury hosted the Tour de Farms, an annual biking fundraiser for the Addison County Relocalization Network (ACORN), a non-profit that promotes the healthy growth of food and agriculture in the Champlain Valley.
This past Sunday, Sept. 21, the Middlebury Area Land Trust (MALT) hosted its 22nd annual Trail Around Middlebury (TAM) Trek to raise money and awareness for their organization. The TAM Trek, which spans a 19-mile course, aimed to include various levels of participants by offering a 10k run, a 5k run, and a two-mile family “fun run” in addition to the full-length race.
The Center for Health and Wellness (CHW) recently announced the termination of MiddSafe, a student-run mental health and violence prevention hotline that has been in use for more than a decade. Director of Health and Wellness Education Madeline Hope cited a decrease in student use as the reason for its termination. With the program Mental Health Peer Educators (MHPE) also ending due to low participation rates, CHW has introduced a new group called PEAR (Peers Educating for Affirming Relationships).
With the decision to shut down several programs at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) within two years finalized, Monterey-based faculty, staff and students are mourning the future of their school. On the other side of the country, the Vermont community has commended the choice, but is left wondering what the pivot will really change in the short term considering the college’s persisting budget deficit. Administrators have decisions to make about what is to come for two campuses that, though thousands of miles apart, have been intertwined for 20 years.
Over 300 Middlebury community members walked out of classes and their jobs on Thursday, May 8 to rally outside of Old Chapel in protest of recent budget cuts. About 10 faculty members, staff members and students addressed the crowd calling for reversal of changes to retirement benefits, in addition to dissociate from Monterey, staff unionization and community solidarity in the face of future changes.
The college announced on May 1 that it had received 11,831 applications for the class of 2029 and 2029.5, a six percent drop from last year’s 12,540. Meanwhile, the overall acceptance rate increased to 13.9% from last year’s 12%.
In a series of moves last week, Middlebury’s next president Ian Baucom began to stake out positions on key issues at the college and in higher education that will shape his tenure, standing up for the college — and for Monterey.
Ruth Hardy is a State Senator for the Addison District. She delivered these remarks on the floor of the Vermont Senate on April 22, 2025.
They say champions aren’t fazed by a little water, and last Saturday, Middlebury’s women’s track and field team transformed a rain-soaked Allan Dragone Track into their personal splash zone of dominance. In their final home performance, before attempting an unprecedented fourth consecutive NESCAC title, the Panthers didn't just compete — they conquered, stacking the podium like a game of Jenga.
In a plenary faculty meeting on Friday, April 18, 94% of the nearly 200 faculty members in attendance voted to pass a motion demanding that the administration and Board of Trustees reverse the recently announced compensation cuts for employees and enrollment increase.
When I arrived at Middlebury College in the fall of 2022, I never thought that I would run a half marathon, organize a fundraising soccer tournament or raise over $3,500 in just three weeks for a humanitarian organization that is over 4,000 miles away. However, that is exactly what I am doing because some causes are personal, and some moments demand more than thought: they demand action. Please consider helping us reach our $10,000 fundraising goal by May by attending our upcoming soccer tournament (details coming soon) and donating to the GoFundMe.
On Saturday, April 5, an estimated 400 people gathered in downtown Vergennes along Main Street outside City Park as part of the approximately 1,300 nationwide Hands Off! protests against the Trump administration. Beginning around noon, the protest lasted roughly two hours through wind and rain. At its peak, protesters spread across Main Street and the intersection at North Green Street and Green Street. The protest was planned concurrently with other Hands Off! protests throughout Vermont, with an estimated 10,000 in attendance at the Montpelier, Vt. protest. The local chapter of the progressive Indivisible movement placed attendance in Brattleboro, Vt. at around 1,500.
The college announced a series of cost-saving measures on Wednesday, April 2 that aim to cut over $10 million from the annual budget through reducing staff and faculty benefits and permanently raising the student enrollment projection to 2,600–2,650. The college attributed the changes to 15 years of consistent deficits, culminating in the unexpectedly high $14.1 million shortfall this fiscal year, a large portion of which is due to lower enrollment at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS).
I’m shocked when I hear accounts of other American undergraduate students' time abroad, learning nothing more than how to say “merci” while in Paris. As I wrapped up my semester abroad this past December in Bordeaux, France, I could safely say that my French improved exponentially and that there was value in the intense and immersive qualities of the Middlebury program, which is known for its notorious Language Pledge requiring students to only speak in their target language. I lived with a host family and was directly enrolled at the local university, taking courses any native student would take. I successfully blended into the lecture halls, challenging the stereotype that American exchange students can only speak English.
The Middlebury Board of Trustees approved a 4.5% increase in the annual undergraduate cost of attendance at its Feb. 7–8 meeting, raising the comprehensive fee from $86,850 to $90,756. At the same meeting, the trustees learned that the college’s budget deficit for the 2025 fiscal year is now expected to reach $14.1 million, about $5 million higher than the $8.9 million gap projected in October.
Vermonters are known for being welcoming, but not to everyone — and if there is one thing they are protective of, it’s their ski mountains. When Vice President J.D. Vance arrived at Sugarbush Ski Resort in the Mad River Valley with his family for a ski vacation this past weekend, he was met by over a thousand protestors in Waitsfield and Warren, Vt. and at the mountain opposing his visit and the Trump administration. Meanwhile, a smaller group of locals took to the streets in a counterprotest, celebrating Vance’s arrival.