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On Sept. 23, U.S. News & World Report released its 2025–2026 national liberal arts colleges rankings, which dropped Middlebury to 19th place — eight positions lower than last year, tied with Grinnell College and Washington and Lee University. This ranking is Middlebury’s lowest since its first appearance on the list in 1988, when the college was ranked 17th.
Over the course of this semester, a group of Super Senior Febs and I will publish a series of op-eds detailing what Middlebury used to be like and what it could be. We hope to provide a similitude of institutional memory. We have conducted hours of interviews with alumni, professors and students, and we plan to conduct dozens more. Throughout our research, it has become increasingly clear that something within our great school is wrong. Our culture, traditions and support for curiosity have decayed over the past decade. I leave in January; all I can do now is write. However, the Earth belongs to those who live upon it: For those of you with more time left than me, I aim to impart to you that you deserve more than what Middlebury is offering. You deserve what they promise: a liberal education.
On Sunday afternoon, a group of Addison County residents gathered in the cozy and historic barn at The Tillerman Inn in Bristol, Vt. to celebrate the release of Issue 17 of Zig Zag Lit Mag — a local arts and literature magazine — and its seventh accompanying poetry chapbook, “All the Grief” by Alice Eckles, a Middlebury-based artist and poet. Attendees enjoyed an afternoon during which 13 of the 31 total published writers and artists read their work from the new issue out loud, a biyearly tradition Zig Zag has upheld to commemorate every issue to date.
The signature block of lime green and low-resolution Arial font has defined these past few months for many. British artist Charli XCX dominated the charts this summer with the release of her sixth studio album, “BRAT.” Known for her boundary-pushing hyperpop stylings, XCX’s album explores the heavy thumping noises of underground clubs just as much as it does the nuances of vulnerable topics like freedom, grief, jealousy and self-worth.
To date, more than 1000 Middlebury alumni have signed the Open Letter to Middlebury College pledging to withhold donations until student demands at the Middlebury Gaza Solidarity Encampment are met. We are immensely proud of the students who are embodying Middlebury’s mission statement principles of leading “engaged, consequential, and creative lives.”
I have worked for The Middlebury Campus since the second week of my freshman year, primarily as an Opinions Editor. When I assumed the role of Editor at Large this year (a wonderfully vague title), I was granted almost total discretion over my writing. Soon into the fall semester, I decided to start an opinion column, Sarah Says, to make use of the ideas I’d been jotting down in my notes app.
The Middlebury West Asian and North African Students Association (WANAS) hosted a fundraising showcase dedicated to celebrating the voices of West Asian and North African voices on campus at Wilson Hall on Friday, April 26.
Every April, when the days get long again and we shed our winter coats, I remember that I am an essentially joyful person and am, perhaps more importantly, committed to cultivating joy. This is the writerly way of saying I suffer from a low-grade form of seasonal depression. Seasonal Affectiveness Disorder (SAD) is estimated to affect as many as six in 100 people and is more common among women and in geographic regions like New England. When spring comes, I’m always surprised to watch the cobwebs clear from my heart like slush evaporating under the sun.
Terry Tempest Williams, an author, naturalist and social justice advocate, will deliver the 2024 Middlebury Commencement address.
Since the news of Taylor Swift’s new album broke at the 2024 Grammy Awards, April 19 has been the most important date on my calendar (although graduation day is perhaps a close second). Published at midnight, the 16-song album “The Tortured Poets Department” (TTPD) was followed at 2 a.m. by the surprise release of “The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology,” adding 15 more songs and bringing the total listening time to over two hours. Some listeners protested, some rejoiced and all wondered: How do you reckon with such abundance?
The newly launched Middlebury website now features what the college has labeled as the “Four Fluencies”: “Solving the Climate Crisis,” “Analyzing Data,” “Transforming Conflict” and “Understanding Cultural Difference. If you are surprised to hear that these are the four pillars of a Middlebury education, so were we when perusing the Middlebury website.
A recent lecture on “Black Life in a Nazi Internment Camp: The Art of Josef Nassy,” examined the invisibility of the Black wartime experience and highlighted art as a form of memory that helps us better understand Black perspectives of Nazi internment. The April 17 talk was led by Sarah Phillips Casteel, an English professor at Carleton University.
Five Middlebury student readers showcased their original essays, short stories and poetry in the most recent event in the New England Review (NER) student reading series.
As an English major, people often make small talk with me by asking about my favorite books. I vastly prefer this question to the alternative question about my degree: “So, what are you going to do with that?” Like most English majors, I read a lot, both for school and for pleasure. After I finish a semester, my reward is a trip to the bookstore where I can indulge in the books that I held off reading due to my coursework. To be clear, this is not a list of my favorite books. That list is unstable, shifting depending on the hour, the mood or the person asking. Instead, this is a list of books tailored to graduating seniors (though anyone could find some pleasure in them) — books that I hope will offer a balm or a new perspective as we prepare for the next phase of our lives.
Instagram announced a big change this February: It would begin to limit political content. I didn’t notice this change until a few weeks ago when many of my Middlebury classmates began to post pleas to circulate a text post instructing us how and why we should self-select back into being shown political content. I can understand why a change that seemed sudden (but wasn’t actually) could be alarming. However, I was deeply relieved. Instagram, the Facebook of our generation, was never designed to facilitate substantive political discourse.
Unknown perpetrators committed vandalism at The Knoll over the weekend of March 29 and 30, damaging tools, materials and projects. Numerous items were burned in The Knoll’s fire pit, and live branches were broken off of nearby cherry and poplar trees. Other items burned included an Adirondack chair, gardening supplies, birch wood and bark.
Across from the swing set outside of Twilight Hall, in the New England Review office, a box of newly minted issues of Volume 45.1 sits beside a shelf of archival issues dating back to the magazine’s founding in 1978. Led by Editor Carolyn Kuebler ’90 and Managing Editor Leslie Sainz, NER delicately toes the line between maintaining a prestigious reputation and a welcoming appeal.
Zahra Moeini Meybodi is the Associate Muslim Chaplain and Interfaith Advisor at Middlebury.
College employees, including faculty and staff, highlight access to affordable childcare as a significant and pressing concern. Within the bounds of the town of Middlebury, childcare centers face long waitlists and struggle to balance adequate pay for center employees with affordable rates for parents.
From up Route 125 to Ripton, Vt., down the coast to Washington, D.C. and across the country in Monterey, Calif., staff members across Middlebury’s far-flung campuses are crucial to the college’s success and its reputation outside of the Green Mountain State.