Student organizations that have yet to receive funding will see a shortage of resources available to them in the 2015- 16 academic year. The Student Government Association (SGA) Finance Committee has already allocated around $900,000 of the $1,000,000 Student Activities Fee (SAF). Roughly 40 organizations ...
On Wednesday, Sept. 16 — the same day classes began at the College — U.S. District Court Judge J. Garvan Murtha ordered the College to temporarily re-enroll a student who had been expelled for an alleged sexual assault charge that took place while the student was studying abroad through the School ...
I am delighted to watch the campus transform itself from summer to autumn rhythms as the students return. I have been eager to dive in to the everyday life of the College. Many of you were here over the summer, and brought bread and vegetables and many other gifts of welcome. Thank you! And many of ...
The Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey (MIIS) will offer a $10,000 Legacy Scholarship to Middlebury College alumni and their family members. Family members include an alumnus’ parents, siblings, spouses, children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews. In its initial press release ...
August marked the introduction of two new student life staff members to the College: Baishakhi Taylor joined the College as the new Dean of Students, taking over from Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of the College Katy Smith Abbott, while AJ Place assumed the role of an Associate Dean of ...
The College rose in the U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings for national liberal arts colleges posted on Sept. 8. The College — which had previously ranked seventh among its peer institutions — is now tied for fourth alongside Bowdoin College, Pomona College and Wellesley College. “It ...
On Jul. 24, 2015, a student was expelled from the College for an alleged sexual assault charge against a non-Middlebury student. The incident allegedly took place in the fall 2014 semester while the student was studying abroad through the School for International Training (SIT). The College is now being ...
Four Middlebury graduates were elected to the Board of Trustees in July, including two women of color, as term trustees and an alumni trustee. The new trustees include Joseph W. Brown ’90, Leilani McClellan Brown ’93, Janine Feng ’92 and Henry J. Simonds ’97. These appointees will serve on the ...
On Monday April 27, Community Council continued discussing security cameras, a controversial topic that was the subject of some of the graffiti that appeared on Ross dining hall, Atwater dining hall and BiHall that morning. Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of the College and Community Council ...
As the latest addition to the wave of graffiti found across campus, more spray-painted words, stenciled images, and stickers were found on the Ross complex, Atwater Dining Hall, Bicentennial Hall, McCullough Student Center and Axinn early last week. The probing messages behind the graffiti work and ...
Following a voting period that saw the highest level of voter participation in recent years, Ilana Gratch ’16.5 was elected President of the Student Government Association (SGA) for the 2015-16 academic year. “I look forward to an SGA that engages in meaningful conversation that translates to tangible ...
The Middlebury Campus previously sat down with College President Ronald D. Liebowitz in the fall to discuss his time at the College. This is the second and final installment of the conversation, which took place prior to and after the announcement of Laurie L. Patton as the College’s 17th President. ...
A faculty meeting was held on Tuesday, April 28 to address heightened student stress as the semester comes to a close. Out of what some have called an “emergency meeting” emerged a community-wide conversation on short-term methods to mitigate anxiety and the acknowledgement that long-term goals ...
The Classics department received a significant donation that will endow a lecture series, professorship, and summer programming. The department will be renamed the Eve Adler Department of Classics. Donations such as this are normally named in honor of the donor, as with the Albert A. Mead Professorship ...
This year, two Middlebury College students, Maddie Orcutt ’16 and Kate Hamilton ’15.5, were selected to receive the prestigious Truman Scholarship. The Truman Scholarship is a $30,000 grant awarded to a select number of college juniors interested in government and public policy with the purpose ...
On Tuesday, April 21, students, faculty and members of the community gathered in Mead Chapel to hear Middlebury College Activities Board’s (MCAB) spring speaker, veteran Democratic political strategist Donna Brazile, in her talk titled “Political Outlook: A Comprehensive Picture of What’s Going ...
The SGA meeting on April 19 opened with an announcement from President Taylor Custer ’15 that the recently passed proposal Coffee Hour would take place at 8:30 p.m. every remaining Tuesday of this school year, in either Davis Family Library or Bicentennial Hall. Next, Director of Membership Nick Warren ...
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Community Council voted on Monday against a proposal to install security cameras in the hallways where bags are left outside of dining halls, with the intention of deterring and monitoring theft.Graffiti protesting the installation of cameras appeared Monday morning at a number of locations on campus. ...
On Tuesday, April 14, Kelly Boe, manager of the central biomass heating plant, died in a bicycling accident that took place along Hamilton Road in Weybridge. Boe was riding with his wife, Kathy, when he was struck by a car. His passing was announced in an email sent by Vice President for Finance and ...