As traditional academics have been disturbed by the pandemic, some professors are using this opportunity to adopt unconventional grading systems in their courses.
First-year Feb Isabeau Trimble ’24.5 returned to their room on Tuesday morning to find the contents of the whiteboard on their door edited to display a homophobic slur. A resident of Forest Hall, Trimble had originally written “FAQ” on the board followed by a few personal fun facts. On Tuesday, ...
After a year of financial uncertainty amid the pandemic, the Trustees raised tuition by 2.5% and limited the endowment draw to 5% with the goal of the college operating at a surplus by fiscal year 2022.
The Sports Innovation Lab, a sports marketing analytics startup, established an internship in honor of Jack Langerman ’19.5, who worked at the company for two summers and passed away this January.
The money, raised during a joint fundraising campaign by the Student Government Association and Office of Advancement, will be used to promote student-run initiatives for diversity, equity and inclusion.
Amid Covid-19 travel restrictions and school closures, many juniors saw study abroad plans cancelled, and sophomores applied to programs without knowing what next year will look like.
MCAB has planned a number of indoor, outdoor and virtual events for this year’s eight-day Winter Carnival, including a performing arts festival and a socially distanced dance.
Some members of Middlebury dining staff worked over seven days in a row and more than eight hours a day in the weeks leading up to the start of the spring semester.
UPDATE — Saturday, Feb. 27 One new positive was discovered among the latest batch of mid-week testing results, which were released on the college Covid-19 reporting dashboard at noon today. The student is now in isolation. An additional two student contacts are now in quarantine, bringing the total ...
One student tested positive for Covid-19 out of 1,932 tests conducted during Sunday and Monday’s Day Zero arrival testing, according to an email from the college. The student is currently in isolation and contact tracing has been completed. The college also reported a combined total of 30 tests that ...
Facilities staff and the Student Activities Office have worked to increase outdoor social offerings for the spring semester, adding 25 new fire pits and collecting skis for students to use on the college golf course.
“Rao’s work on the economics of using Earth's orbits is pathbreaking and crucial for humanity’s successful exploration of space,” said Middlebury Assistant Professor of Economics Julia Berazneva.
This spring, the college is implementing a new approach to communicating Covid-19 guidelines, increasing private study spaces, and adding new indoor and outdoor dining options.
Ranked among the top 150 influencers in the 2016 election under his pseudonym Ricky Vaughn, Mackey was arrested last Wednesday for an online disinformation campaign.
Though nearly all students left Middlebury in November, some were approved to live on campus this winter due to travel difficulties or the need to access campus resources.
In her five years as vice president for HR and chief risk officer, Karen Miller oversaw workforce planning, the introduction of Oracle HCM and the college’s entry into the Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium, among other initiatives.
With Vermont’s new daily cases higher than fall levels, spring move-in procedures are expected to remain the same except for more consolidated arrival dates.
Middlebury’s applicant pool set a new record this year, growing to 11,908 students — a 30% increase from last year’s 9,165 applicants. It was also a notable increase from the previous record of 9,750 applicants for the class of 2023. !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(a){if(void ...
Nonproliferation, economic diplomacy and localization management are terms seldomly heard on the college’s Vermont campus.But 2,500 miles away on the coast of California, more than 600 graduate students and hundreds of faculty and staff research these very topics at the Middlebury Institute for International ...
Although the Middlebury Schools Abroad have consistently turned a profit in years past, generating an annual surplus of roughly $1 million, closures in the fall and spring semesters have led the college to project a net loss for the schools this fiscal year.