640 new students currently plan to enroll in September, but this figure is tentative, given uncertainty about the college's fall semester plan and potential student visa challenges.
Associate Professor of Political Science Keegan Callanan, who was appointed to the National Council on the Humanities last August, is helping to advise its chairman on Covid-19 stimulus funding.
Over 120 students signed a petition to college administrators that Tamar Freeland published online last week.
The award is given to the top two graduating female Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) cadets in the nation.
Professors have shown that it's possible to build community while practicing social distancing.
A student strike in 1970 catalyzed anti-war action in the years to follow, but many activists were excluded from the mainstream conversation.
As part of its commitment to pay continuity for existing staff, the college has frozen all hiring that had not been completed before the transition to remote learning.
“Middlebury faces almost daily changes," reads a December 1918 Campus editorial. "It is with a feeling of wonder as to what will come next that we greet each day and it is not strange that under such conditions the student body should be unusually restless and undecided.”
Will Nash will be remembered for his ability to live with joy in the present, his passion for innovating and the boundless love he held for those around him.
“I had to choose between making a financially sound decision or a decision that makes me happy,” said one perspective student. “I ended up choosing the latter.”
The measure failed with 133 faculty, or 52% of attendees, voting against.
College treasurer David Provost has spent the last four years shrinking the college's operating deficit. Now, with millions in Covid-19-related losses, it's back to where it was in 2017.
The funds will be used to cover student emergency financial aid grants and offset Covid-19 related expenses that have already been paid.
“I can’t even put into words how accessible she was to students,” said Roni Lezama '22 about Taylor.
Some Middlebury programs will be taught through remote instruction this summer, while several others have been canceled.
Under the test-optional policy, students may choose not to submit any test scores as part of their application for admission.
Among the 13 candidates on this year’s Student Government Association (SGA) election ballot, only two were female-identifying.
In response to anger from the rising senior class, Turner House and Homer Harris House are no longer available as superblocks for rising juniors.
A committee that the college convened this winter to democratize financial decision-making is now helping it work through coronavirus-related financial woes.
Will had family and friends around the world who will be lighting a candle and remembering him today at 7:47 p.m. PDT, 10:47 p.m. EDT.