At Beijing Capital Normal University, where I took my semester abroad this past spring, I enrolled in Classical Chinese. There, I developed confidence and an interest in reading simple classical Chinese. I also became more familiar with major schools of thought in the Pre-Qin period of ancient China, ...
When I last wrote an op-ed about artificial intelligence (AI) in 2024, submissions created with the technology had sneakily won several art and photography contests. Now, it is consistently deceiving hundreds of thousands of internet users every day. Its content creation capabilities have improved so ...
ChatGPT was introduced to me in my sophomore year, the spring of 2023, by Professor of Writing and Rhetoric Hector Vila. We pasted our writing into the then-novel software, asked it for an improved version and reflected on what we liked about our work vs the robot’s. I watched my essay about my complicated ...
On May 28, shortly after the conclusion of exams and our departure from campus, MiddSafe advocates received a letter from the Health and Wellness Education (HWE) office titled “Changes to MiddSafe & Mental Health Peer Educators – Your Eyes and Response Needed!” This email explained that for ...
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The recent uptick in political violence across the country paints a very worrying picture for the future of cross-party dialogue and collaboration, both nationally and here at Middlebury. With the killing of a Minnesota democrat legislator, Melissa Hortman and their spouse this past June, and the killing ...
A career is 80,000 hours of decisions about where your energy goes. It is not just about building a résumé, it is about determining what your one working life will add up to. Choosing whether those hours are spent maximizing comfort or contributing to problems that shape the century is not a neutral ...
Protecting the natural world will require changing the human world. While science is a powerful tool to inform the choices we make in the future, those choices will be made by humans. Politicians, policymakers, business leaders, and consumers need to be convinced to take action now for the long-term ...
After nearly two decades of polemics, the Monterey campus is set to close in 2027. As the books are settled, we must ask ourselves: What will Middlebury do with its new windfall of nearly nine million dollars a year?
Beginning this fall, Health & Wellness Education is making updates to our community’s violence prevention strategy to strengthen our proactive power. This coming year, the MiddSafe hotline is ending, and a new group named PEAR (Peers Educating for Affirming Relationships, which combines the resources ...
The college decided to close its graduate campus, the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS), leaving us surprised at the speed of this decision and cautiously optimistic about what it will mean for Middlebury’s future.
I am a first year at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey pursuing a degree in Environmental Policy and Management (EPM). I may not be a student here for much longer. When the news of the Institute’s closure in June of 2027 — the month of my supposed graduation from the ...
Welcome to the pages of The Campus. Whether you’ve opened our paper to read about the closure of MIIS, the college’s role in a recent lawsuit or that new mural you may have noticed on Main Street, we’re glad you’ve found us. Of the 37 student editors who have made our first issue possible, 19 ...
For many college students at institutions like ours, “finance”, “consulting”, and “big law” have become catch-all terms that describe the failures and inequalities of the American economy. It comes as no surprise, then, that the announcement of Chuck Davis as our commencement speaker was ...
As faculty holding leadership positions in Global Security-related degree programs and research centers at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) at Monterey, we are aware of calls for Middlebury to end its association with MIIS. While we feel sympathy for faculty and staff in Vermont ...
The future of academia and human capability has been called into question in the past several years with the rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Perhaps nowhere is this concern more pressing than in a classroom, where A.I. has weakened trust between professors and students, made cheating ...
The Middlebury Commencement is in the realm of the sacred, in what sociologist Émile Durkheim called “the ritual sense of the word. It has … transcendental majesty.” What are its sacred elements?
Last Tuesday, the college announced that Chuck Davis, CEO of private equity firm Stone Point Capital, will deliver this year’s commencement address. Upon receiving the news, we felt both confused and disappointed.
Middlebury’s classism is genteel, and it’s easy to dismiss when times are good. This past month, it has become harder to ignore.
Three hundred million dollars. Imagine this sum for Middlebury — a king’s ransom. With this sum, we could build forty-two Atwater Dining halls. With this sum we could have Beyoncé at every spring concert for the next three decades. With this sum we could give over 3,000 students full ride ...
International and Global Studies (IGS) is one of Middlebury’s most popular majors. It offers students the opportunity to critically analyze global trends, to specialize in a region or theme of study and to develop foreign language skills before using them while abroad. It should be the Middlebury ...