On Jan. 25, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz, Dean of the College Shirley Collado and Vice President of Finance Patrick Norton agreed to resume funding several programs — including midnight breakfast and 24/7 open hours at the library during finals week — which the Student Government ...
Following student protests, an expert panel attended by hundreds, and countless letters from current students and alumni, seven students will present on the “moral imperative of divestment” to the Board of Trustees at Board’s tri-annual on-campus meeting on Saturday, Feb. 16. The students will ...
On Tuesday, Feb. 12, international freelance journalist and Middlebury alumnus Dimiter Kenarov ’03.5 spoke to students and community members in a lecture titled “Shale Gas: from Poland to Pennsylvania.” Recently, Kenarov spent six weeks traveling Eastern Europe and the United States researching ...
During the Feb. 11 Community Council meeting, tensions ran high as members discussed attendance issues, faculty and staff representation on the council and the overall role of the Community Council on campus. Student Government Association (SGA) President Charlie Arnowitz ’13 expressed his concern ...
“A health minister doesn’t need to be a medical doctor, but if he is one, then he can’t have committed malpractice. An education minister doesn’t need to have a Ph.D., but if he does, then his dissertation cannot be plagiarized,” Dr. Volker Rieble, professor of law at Munich’s Ludwig Maximilian ...
Ohio University considers guaranteed tuition rate Ohio University is considering implementing a four-year fixed tuition rate for undergraduate students. Administrators at the university view fixed tuition as an incentive for students to graduate within four years, as tuition would be raised if a student ...
Last week the College and the surrounding community mourned the passing of esteemed Professor Emeritus Ana Martínez-Lage who died after battling cancer for many years. Although Martínez-Lage retired last fall to spend more time with her family, her death has deeply affected members of the college ...
Although the panel on the endowment is now available in its entirety online, the Campus has compiled some highlights from last Tuesday's event in the video above. For additional coverage, please see "Divestment Debate Continues" or the Campus Current's liveblog coverage. In a new collaboration between ...
Over the course of two evenings, the College community saw its leaders “do the math” on divestment in two radically different ways. On Sunday evening, Schumann Distinguished Scholar Bill McKibben and others spoke to over 150 college and local community members at Mead Chapel in the last stop on ...
On Monday, Jan. 14, Middlebury Interactive Languages (MIL) and the College introduced a new initiative that will give up to 30 schools across Vermont discounted access to online language learning, developed specifically for K-12 students. The $2.6 million Vermont World Language Initiative was created ...
On July 1, 2013 Former Provost and Executive Vice President Alison Byerly will leave the College after 23 years of service to begin her term as the first female president of Lafayette College in Easton, Penn. “People want to see [Lafayette] balance a need to innovate and change and move into the ...
The College awarded tenure to seven faculty members at the end of December, a decision which provides the opportunity to examine the thorough and complex process by which a professor becomes a permanent member of the College faculty. The Board of Trustees promoted Assistant Professor of Biology Catherine ...
From Jan. 24 - 26, the Middlebury Center for Social Entrepreneurship (MCSE) will host its second annual Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship and Social Justice. The event will feature student presentations on social issues in Addison County, Vt., workshops led by six champions of social entrepreneurship ...
As we start to review the results of the SGA Student Life Survey (Don’t worry! There’s still plenty of time to #takethesurvey), a trend is starting to emerge. A number of students are dissatisfied with the Middlebury social scene and are unable to pursue their “preferred weekend lifestyle.” But ...
At the Student Government Association (SGA) meeting on Sunday, Jan. 20, SGA President Charlie Arnowitz ’13 started the meeting by announcing that break buses from this past winter break were profitable. The only buses that failed to make a profit were those that went to White Plains, N.Y. Next the ...
As France embroiled itself in battles against Islamist extremist rebels in Mali last week, a hostage crisis broke out in nearby Algeria. Last Wednesday, the al-Qaeda linked terrorist group Brigade of the Masked Ones seized a natural gas facility near In Amenas, located 30 miles west of the Libyan border. ...
Laurie Essig, associate professor of sociology and women’s and gender studies, was recently informed by Forbes.com that her blog position would be “sunsetted” as a result of a post she wrote regarding the Newtown, Conn. shootings on Dec. 17. In her last post, Essig confronted issues of masculinity ...
Research conducted by Associate Professor of Psychology Matthew Kimble found that female undergraduates who study abroad are significantly more likely to experience rape and other types of sexual assault than women who remain on campus. Specifically, Kimble’s study found that women abroad are over ...
Middlebury, along with Williams College and Connecticut College, collaborated in a new initiative to increase faculty diversity called the Creating Connections Consortium (C3). The program is sponsored by a $4.7 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. “We recognize now that trying to ...
In the wake of high-profile student protests and amid a growing university movement to combat climate change, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz announced that that the College will host a panel of experts to discuss the feasibility of divesting its endowment from the fossil fuel industry ...