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Beginning next semester, the Research Desk at the Davis Family Library will be terminated as part of a broader restructuring of the Library’s Research, Instruction and Data Services (RI&D) department to adapt to student needs and budget constraints. The RI&D team will instead focus on individual consultation appointments to support student research.
If you stop by the Ilsley Public Library’s temporary location in the National Bank of Middlebury on the first Thursday of each month and overhear a group of about 10 of your neighbors talking about a serial killing or a kidnapping streak, know that you can probably still sleep peacefully. They’re not planning a murder, nor recounting what they saw in their backyard last night. They are the library’s true crime podcast club, and anyone can join them.
Although Covid-19 pandemic restrictions on campus ended over two years ago, the college’s staffing has not climbed back to pre-pandemic levels, and several departments, including Custodial Services, the Davis Family Library, Catering and Dining are struggling with unmanageable workloads and burnout. According to staff, much of this struggle has been caused by the college’s poor human resource policies.
Between 2019 and 2025, Middlebury’s undergraduate population rose from 2,580 to 2,653 students, according to data from the college’s Office of Assessment and Institutional Research. Enrollment saw large surges after students took time off during the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions in 2020 and then returned to campus in 2021 and 2022, causing a record peak of 2,858 on campus students in the fall of 2021.
The Chateau marked its 100th birthday on Saturday, welcoming French Department alumni, students and professors for a celebration of its legacy. The dorm was the first of its kind in the U.S., a maison française or “french house” conceived and built with the purpose of speaking only French inside in mind. With its iconic dormers and peaked towers, the building has long stood out among the campus’s predominantly gray-stone Georgian architecture.
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.
On Sept. 24, the Political Science Department hosted a roundtable discussion titled “Is the U.S. Still a Democracy?”. Professor of Political Science Erik Bleich moderated as Associate Professors of Political Science Sebnem Gumuscu and Ajay Verghese and Professor of Political Science Murray Dry provided their perspectives.
As the Armstrong Science Library in BiHall closed last fall, the Quantitative Center (Q-Center) was implemented in its former space, welcoming STEM students to a collaborative study spot. Meanwhile, the project of relocating Armstrong’s collections presented difficulties for librarians, a challenge that may resurface when items from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS) will have move to Middlebury’s campus after its closure.
ChatGPT was introduced to me in my sophomore year, the spring of 2023, by Professor of Writing and Rhetoric Hector Vila. We pasted our writing into the then-novel software, asked it for an improved version and reflected on what we liked about our work vs the robot’s. I watched my essay about my complicated relationship to my family in the Netherlands transform into something decidedly less authentic. I closed the tab, assured that the technology could never replace good human writing.
Debbie Gardner of New Haven brought her 4- and 7-year-old grandchildren to Middlebury’s Retro Realm arcade on a recent Thursday so that they could play alongside other kids. But when she spotted familiar games from the arcades of her teen years — including an original 1981 Ms. Pac-Man — she joined right in.
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).
A career is 80,000 hours of decisions about where your energy goes. It is not just about building a résumé, it is about determining what your one working life will add up to. Choosing whether those hours are spent maximizing comfort or contributing to problems that shape the century is not a neutral choice. It is, in practice, the most consequential ethical decision most people will ever face.
Beginning this fall, Health & Wellness Education is making updates to our community’s violence prevention strategy to strengthen our proactive power. This coming year, the MiddSafe hotline is ending, and a new group named PEAR (Peers Educating for Affirming Relationships, which combines the resources of both MiddSafe and the Mental Health Peer Educators, will take its place. This change allows our community to bolster our efforts in the prevention of interpersonal violence through increasing professional staff focus on Green Dot Bystander Intervention and the promotion of healthy relationships more actively and effectively in partnership with student peer health educators.
The college will end all residential graduate programs and certain online degrees at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) by June 2027. In a community-wide email and video announcement, college President Ian Baucom said that the Board of Trustees decided on Wednesday, August 27 to approve his recommendation that Middlebury phase its Monterey-based programs out within the next two years, citing severe under enrollment and financial deficits.
Middlebury baseball’s season started like a car in the dead of Vermont winter — slow to turn over but now running strong. The Panthers extended their winning streak to eight games last weekend, demolishing Skidmore in a doubleheader (13–3, 13–7).
For 11 years, there was one room in the golf world that Rory McIlroy could not enter — the Augusta National Champions Clubhouse. On Sunday, April 13, Rory exorcised his demons and finally stepped into that hallowed space after his second shot into the first playoff hole sealed his place in an elite seven-man club alongside Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus.
In 2015, Spiethsanity rocked the golf world. As the 21-year-old golf prodigy Jordan Spieth won two major championships and five tournaments overall, fans and players alike marveled at the PGA Tour Player of the Year. Middlebury men’s golf had their own Spieth-like run in the 2022–23 season, winning the NESCAC championship by 15 strokes – their first title since 2015–16.
The Middlebury men's track and field team has been rewriting the record books this season, and the whispers around the NESCAC are growing louder — the Panthers might just be on the verge of claiming their first conference championship in six years.
If you walked into Proctor or Ross dining hall on Thursday for lunch last week, you probably saw a couple students tabling outside to promote the Migrant Justice Milk with Dignity campaign. On that day, around 80 Middlebury students called Hannaford Supermarket to demand the grocery store chain join the Milk with Dignity program and guarantee humane working and living conditions for the farm workers that produce their dairy products — many of whom are undocumented immigrants.
Gallery hoppers, Spotify stalkers, bookworms, Letterboxd users and anyone who enjoys art, this is the place for you. Makes Ya Feel highlights art across all of its mediums, small and large-scale, that (you guessed it) makes ya feel!