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.
Director of Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies Derek Penslar gave this year’s Hannah A. Quint Lecture in Jewish Studies, titled “The Struggle for Palestine on the World Stage, 1947–1949.” As Harvard’s William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Penslar studies Jewish history within the ...
The college’s crew and rugby teams have moved under the umbrella of the Middlebury Athletics department, beginning the process to exit the supervision of the Student Activities Office (SAO). Anonymous donations made the transition in February possible by funding new coaches and other support for the ...
From sushi to poke bowls, S.E.A. Dinette has served a variety of seafood since its opening on Sept. 8, 2024, replacing the space in McCullough Student Center that once housed the student-run Crossroads Café and then Wilson Café for the 2023–2024 academic year, which sold Starbucks products. The ...
Earth Day is celebrated internationally on April 22, but at Middlebury, this year’s festivities spanned the entire month and beyond. Between March 29 and April 30, campus groups including the Sustainability and Environmental Affairs team, the Climate Action Program, the Prism Center and the Knoll ...
On April 11, students, faculty and visitors filtered through BiHall to explore the 248 student research projects and presentations given at the annual Spring Student Symposium. Community members stood shoulder-to-shoulder in the packed Great Hall during poster sessions and hopped around classrooms throughout ...
On April 9, Judge Robert A. Mello of the Addison Unit of the Vermont Superior Court ruled in favor of the college in the ongoing case to restore the Mead name to the Middlebury Chapel. The court denied all motions made by Jim Douglas ’72 on behalf of the Mead estate and granted the college’s motion ...
On Wednesday, April 16, the college announced that a current international student at Middlebury had their Student Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) records revoked by the U.S. government, placing their legal status in question and leaving them at risk of deportation. Three alumni from the ...
Crossroads Café has raised prices again this year, meaning students now pay over $6 for a specialty matcha, mocha or maple latte from Middlebury’s only student-run coffee shop.
After a high-turnout contest on Monday, April 14, Nicole Meyers ’26.5 won the Student Government Association election and will serve as Middlebury’s first female Feb president next year. Together with vice presidents Anna Miller ’26 and Anina Dentel-Pham ’27, Meyers defeated Tony Wang ’26 ...
The college announced a series of cost-saving measures on Wednesday, April 2 that aim to cut over $10 million from the annual budget through reducing staff and faculty benefits and permanently raising the student enrollment projection to 2,600–2,650. The college attributed the changes to 15 years ...
Middlebury is gearing up for its Student Government Association (SGA) presidential election scheduled for Monday, April 14. The student body faces an important decision among three capable and motivated candidates: Nicole Meyers ’26.5, Tony Wang ’26 and Islam Abushareah ’26.5. Each candidate has ...
TEDxMiddlebury returned to the Mahaney Arts Center Concert Hall last Saturday, April 5 with a series of thought-provoking talks guided by this year’s theme: “Testing the Waters.” The event featured five speakers whose stories explored personal identity, creative reinvention, language, leadership ...
The recent detention of over a dozen international students on college campuses across the country has raised concerns among students, faculty and staff about the potential appearance of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on campus. Following these high-profile detention cases, on ...
This April, Middlebury’s Department of Religion is hosting a four-part lecture series on Christian nationalism, bringing journalists, Christian ethicists and scholars of religion to campus. The first two lectures focused on the implications of this movement for American democracy and how social media ...
Middlebury College was one of 60 colleges and universities that received a letter from the Trump administration on Monday, March 10 informing the school that prior allegations of antisemitism on campus would be reinvestigated. The renewed scrutiny on the institution’s treatment of Jewish students ...
Khuram Hussain, vice president of equity and inclusion and professor of Education Studies, announced in early March that he will step down from his current administrative role on June 30 and return to the classroom as a full-time faculty member in the fall.
Students returned from spring break to a new dining option officially available on campus: a food truck operated by So-Full Sisters will now be parked outside BiHall and the Freeman International Center every weekday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. starting Monday, March 24. The email announcing the food truck’s ...
Middlebury has been named a Fulbright Top Producing Institution for the 15th consecutive year, with nine alumni teaching, researching and interning abroad on a Fulbright scholarship for the 2024–25 academic year. These Fulbright recipients have experienced recent uncertainty over their funding following ...
Last month, the organizations Black Student Union (BSU) and Black Students Heard (BSH) launched a public initiative to reclaim the Adirondack House (ADK) as an affinity space for Black students, citing historical promises by the college and what they see as an urgent need for community building at Middlebury. ...