On Oct. 7, 2024, the Criminal Division of the Addison County District Court heard a brief competency hearing for Jerry L. Hoffman, who was charged last spring with attempted murder in the second degree, aggravated assault with a weapon and resisting arrest.
Senior Research and Instruction Librarian Brenda Ellis retired on Wednesday after over 23 and a half years in her position, making her the seventh librarian to depart from the college in the past two years and the third in the past five months.
On Sept. 23, U.S. News & World Report released its 2025–2026 national liberal arts colleges rankings, which dropped Middlebury to 19th place — eight positions lower than last year, tied with Grinnell College and Washington and Lee University. This ranking is Middlebury’s lowest since its first ...
The class of 2028 elected Jeffrey Teh ’28 and Namrita Ghani ’28 as their first year senators last week, as the pair from a pool with four other candidates. Sixty-three percent of voters cast one of their two votes for Teh (119 total votes), while 40% of voters cast one of their votes for Ghani (74 ...
As last week’s Clifford Symposium highlighted, affordable housing is one of the most prominent issues facing Vermont today. The town of Middlebury and the college entered into a partnership in 2022 to construct Stonecrop Meadows, an affordable housing development. Construction is expected to commence ...
Participants in club sports have continued to face a mixture of challenges and successes in sustaining and enabling non-varsity athletic activity under the tier system, according to current leaders of their organizations.
It has been 18 months since former Vermont Governor and Executive-in-Residence Jim Douglas filed a lawsuit against Middlebury College for the removal of “Mead Memorial Chapel” from the campus landmark now known as the Middlebury Chapel. In that time, the parties have attended multiple oral arguments, ...
As the class of 2028 begins the next chapter of their academic careers, a new cohort of faculty are taking their next steps on their professional paths at Middlebury. This fall, the college welcomed nine new assistant professors in tenured or tenure-track positions to the Middlebury faculty, in addition ...
The Adirondack chairs known and loved by students for enjoying Middlebury’s seasonally nice weather may soon face a competitor: adult playground equipment.
At this year’s Clifford Symposium from Sept. 19–21, titled “Home: Housing and Belonging in Middlebury and Beyond”, organizers and speakers engaged in discussions on how to support Vermont communities through the lens of the ongoing housing crises.
The “For Every Future” campaign recently entered its second year of public fundraising, having garnered significant momentum since its launch party last October. As of Sept. 3, 2024, the college had reached about 76% of its total fundraising goal and reached 71% alumni engagement, 14 percentage ...
As hundreds of students gathered on campus for a concert co-sponsored by the Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) last Friday, questions remain about the organization’s future on campus. In the wake of legislation passed by members of the previous Student Government Association (SGA) last spring, ...
The Honor Code Review Committee (HCRC) published an interim report this past May outlining themes in current Honor Code practice as well as recommendations to address the code’s shortcomings. Just one month prior, 65% of Middlebury students self-reported having broken the Honor Code in The Campus’ ...
For Joe Russell, Middlebury’s new Dean of Students, arriving on campus has been a whirlwind of new joys and challenges.
Middlebury’s incoming classes of 2028 and 2028.5 are the first to be admitted in light of the Supreme Court’s decision to ban the consideration of race in college admissions. The new challenges posed by the elimination of affirmative action were reflected in a sharp decrease in students of color ...
This fall, there are 2,774 students enrolled at Middlebury’s Vermont campus, an increase from 2,546 in spring 2024, but a slight decrease from 2,800 in fall 2023. Currently, 128, or five percent, of those students are living off campus, and the remaining 2,646 are living in on-campus college housing, ...
This fall, Middlebury will add a new outdoor tennis facility along with throwing areas for the track and field teams to its athletics facilities. The new construction is planned to be completed in late September and will feature 12 new tennis courts on the corner of South Street and Porter Field Road, ...
Renovations began on the mailroom in McCullough Student Center on Monday, June 10, and concluded on Friday, July 19. These changes were part of a general overhaul of the downstairs of the student center, including a new locker system, updated flooring and an updated mail retrieval system.
This semester students, faculty and staff have started off the fall semester with numerous changes in the dining halls and retail food operations. A new retail dining option, South East Asian (S.E.A.) Dinette by Sushi Maru, will exclusively operate the space in McCullough Student Center previously occupied ...
Middlebury College has announced that the role of interim president next year will be filled by Stephen Snyder, dean of Middlebury Language Schools and vice president for Academic Affairs, beginning Jan. 1, 2025. He will serve through June 30, or until the 18th president of the college is chosen.