On Jan. 17, alumni from the Sunday Night Group (SNG) and 350.org held a ten-year anniversary reunion for the conference “What Works? New Strategies for a Melting Planet.” SNG is Middlebury’s first environmental activism group, and 350.org is the largest international campaign for climate action. Ten ...
The College has offered admission to 280 students for the Class of 2019 under its Early Decision I plan. Decisions were released on Saturday, Dec. 6, via an online portal, and physical copies were mailed to applicants’ homes a day prior. The admitted students will represent about 40 percent of the ...
Last week, Forbes released its third annual “30 under 30” list, highlighting young adults in different work fields. The list included three Middlebury alumni: Alexandra Cart ’08 and Emily Núñez Cavness ’12 were featured in the social entrepreneurs list, and Lisa Gretebeck ’10 was included ...
On Jan. 12, 2015, Community Council met to discuss the idea of students returning early to campus. Dean of Students Katy Smith Abbott often reviews requests from students traveling from great distances to arrive on campus earlier than the Sunday before classes start, but students are not allowed to ...
This past Tuesday, Jan. 13, award-winning New York Times columnist and best-selling author William C. Rhoden addressed the College community as the keynote speaker for the 17th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. Rhoden has been a sports writer for The New York Times since March 1983. Before ...
On Jan. 7, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz announced the launch of Middlebury’s new brand identity system. In an email to students, Liebowitz explained that the new system intends to clarify what had been a somewhat unclear relationship between the undergraduate institution and the other ...
In a campus-wide email sent Wednesday, Dean of the College and Vice President for Student Affairs Shirley Collado announced the approval of a new Intercultural Center in Carr Hall that will serve to provide students with a space to embrace diversity on campus. The proposal was introduced last spring ...
The Student Government Association (SGA) met on Sunday, Nov. 16 and Sunday, Nov. 23 to discuss a number of resolutions that addressed both old and new matters. They considered internal operational issues and passed two resolutions: The Second Hand Smoke Prevention Initiative and the Ian Burgin ...
Effective Feb. 1, 2015, Dr. Sunder Ramaswamy will step down from his position as the 13th president of the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS), a graduate school of Middlebury College. Ramaswamy announced his plans in an email addressed to MIIS faculty, staff, and students on Nov. 20, ...
Students, faculty and staff walked out of classrooms and offices on Monday, Dec. 1 to stand in solidarity with Ferguson, Mo. in light of the recent grand jury decision not to indict former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. The crowd of approximately ...
Students, staff and community members gathered in the Robert A. Jones conference room on Nov. 12 to discuss the feasibility of creating a “microgrid” on Middlebury College’s campus. A microgrid is a smaller, more localized version of a larger power grid that brings distributed energy resources ...
On Saturday, Oct. 25, ten seniors were inducted into The College’s official chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest honor society, and it recognizes students for extraordinary academic achievement. Middlebury’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was founded in 1868, making it the ...
Community Council had several guest students attend the meeting on November 10, 2014 that offered new perspectives on student social life at Middlebury. The council discussed current issues surrounding social life at Middlebury as well as how the council can create a forum to continue discussing possible ...
Middlebury was ranked 7th overall in The Daily Beast’s list of the “25 Most Rigorous Colleges,” ahead of Harvard, Yale, and Stanford. Middlebury is the highest-ranked NESCAC school on the list; Amherst is the only other to make the list, at spot 14. According to The Daily Beast’s website, ...
Dr. Laurie L. Patton was named Middlebury College’s 17th president, and the College’s first female president in its 214-year history, at an announcement ceremony in Mead Chapel on Nov. 18. Patton, who is currently dean of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University and the Robert ...
In late September, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced its plan to divest its money from investments in fossil fuels. The fund, with nearly $860 million in assets, announced that it would divest roughly seven percent of its funds currently invested in fossil fuels. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, ...
The Student Government Association (SGA) convened on Sunday, Nov. 2 and Sunday, Nov. 9 to discuss old and new resolutions. Notably, they re-introduced a discussion concerning the AAL requirement. At the Nov. 2 meeting Treasurer Ilana Gratch ’16.5 presented the Financial Committee’s (FC) biweekly ...
On Oct. 30, Michael Geisler, vice president for Language Schools and Schools Abroad, Chief Risk Officer, and Professor of German and Dr. Mark Peluso, the College Medical Director and College Physician, sent out a school-wide “Important Ebola Update.” The message included new policies that will ...
There has been considerable confusion and debate among students about Middlebury’s party registration policies following the Nov. 2 forum on social issues hosted by the administration. The policies, which can be found at go/party, distinguish between three types of parties: licensed parties, registered ...
On Monday, Oct. 27, at 5:35 a.m., the historic Osborne House was moved from its home on 77 Main Street to the other side of the Cross Street Bridge at the corner of Cross and Water Streets. The move of this house, weighing a total of 120 tons, was not only an act of preserving one of Middlebury’s ...