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(10/30/25 1:04pm)
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.
(05/08/25 10:08am)
As the May 25 commencement ceremony quickly approaches, the college has quietly altered the selection process for the student speaker. Student Government Association (SGA) President Brandon Straker ’25, known as B Striker, will be the only student speaker at commencement, marking a departure from the college’s tradition of allowing a student committee to choose a speaker from the pool of candidates.
(05/01/25 10:08am)
(04/24/25 10:05am)
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.
(04/17/25 10:02am)
With temperatures reaching over 45 degrees, Middlebury women’s tennis hosted its first outdoor matches of the season against Connecticut College last weekend. As balls whirled back and forth, the Panthers fell into a rhythm — unbothered by the chilly air — and captured their third straight 7–0 win. The team is soaring high this season and remains undefeated in NESCAC play.
(03/06/25 11:02am)
Under balmy 70-degree Georgia skies, the Middlebury men’s baseball team opened its 2025 campaign with a sobering reality check, dropping all three games to a battle-tested Emory University squad. The defending NESCAC champions showed clear signs of off-season rust as they were overwhelmed 19–5 and 12-2 in Saturday’s doubleheader, before falling 5–3 in a more competitive Sunday contest.
(05/02/24 10:00am)
Ah, the best four years of our lives. Middlebury College is supposed to be more than just a place we go to school. We are a community of students living together — we go to parties together, play sports together and this year, we experienced a total eclipse together. In its sixth year, Zeitgeist seeks to find out the diverse experiences of Middlebury students.
(01/25/24 11:01am)
On the steps of the Vermont statehouse, former Middlebury College employee and Middlebury Union Middle School administrator Esther Charlestin announced the launch of her gubernatorial campaign. Delivering the announcement on Friday, Jan. 5, Charleston became the first Democrat to throw their name in the ring for the 2024 Vermont gubernatorial race.
(12/07/23 11:01am)
Tahseen Ali Ahmad and Kinnan Abdalhamid went to visit their close childhood friend Hisham Awartani’s family in Burlington, Vt. over Thanksgiving break from college. All three men were shot while walking down the street on Nov. 25 while two of them were wearing keffiyehs, patterned scarves that symbolize Palestinian identity, and all three were speaking a mix of English and Arabic at the time they were shot, according to Seven Days. They all survived, but Awartani is currently paralyzed from the chest down.
(09/21/23 10:03am)
After thirty minutes of vicious shaking, the world once again stood still, save for the giant cloud of dust rising story by story to envelop the city. Then the screaming started.
(09/14/23 10:03am)
Unquestionably the movie of the summer, Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” supplied that oft-sought but rarely found commodity: crowd appeal.
(05/04/23 10:08am)
“The Middlebury experience” is often referred to by students, alumni, faculty, parents and tour guides as the all-encompassing vision of student life. These four years are supposed to be a life-changing whirlwind of academic rigor, close friends, athletic victories and personal growth — all while surrounded by the idyllic fall foliage of rural Vermont. But what does this really mean? What truly defines our Middlebury experience?
(04/20/23 10:04am)
This coming Monday, April 24 is the Student Government Association (SGA) presidential election. Next year’s SGA senators and president will work with the administration and advocate for the needs of the student body as well as allocate student activity funding and make appointments to student, faculty and trustee committees. This week The Campus interviewed each of the SGA candidates.
(04/06/23 10:05am)
Former Vermont Governor and executive in residence at the college, Jim Douglas ’72, filed a lawsuit against the college on Friday March 24, contesting the removal of the “Mead Memorial Chapel” name from the building. The decision that the chapel would no longer bear the name of John A. Mead was enacted in September 2021, due to Mead’s role in advocating and promoting eugenics policies in Vermont in the early 1900s.
(05/05/22 10:00am)
The Middlebury we know today is not the same as the one we surveyed during the first Zeitgeist student body survey in 2019. We may have expected the college to change over these four years, and it did — entire classes matriculated and graduated, presidents were elected and impeached, social trends rose and fell, boats got stuck and unstuck in canals — but few could have foreseen the transformation that our community and our world would experience in that time.
(04/21/22 9:57am)
With no major available at the college, Middlebury’s aspiring engineers are often left waiting for a letter of admission for the dual-degree program from Dartmouth or Columbia. Middlebury partners with other colleges to offer specific career programs for STEM students at the college, and these two universities are the most popular choices among Middlebury students applying to dual-degree engineering programs.
(03/31/22 2:03pm)
Alexis Ballo ’25, from Baltimore, Md., is a first-year on the men’s squash team. In this installment of “Seven Questions,” Ballo discusses what drew him to Middlebury, his favorite memory on the squash team and his favorite dining hall meal.
(03/31/22 9:59am)
It was an early fall morning, around 2:30 or 3 a.m., when the tones of a pager awoke Emily Jones ’23.
(02/24/22 10:57am)
This week, four years ago, I took my first steps as a Middlebury student. My dean told me, the first of many times, that new Febs bring new energy to campus just when it’s needed most. I was eager to see if this was true.
(12/09/21 10:54am)
The College’s decision, announced on September 27, to remove the name of John A. Mead from one of the tallest structures of the campus’s built environment should be just the beginning of a deeper institutional and broader historical introspection into the college’s relationship to structural forms of injustice. In the history of eugenics in the state of Vermont, Mead, as a governor who advocated for eugenics legislation in the early 1900s, is merely the tip of the iceberg.
