…motion against him at Harvard.) And some of the presidential statements–Middlebury president Ron Liebowitz’s remarks particularly stand out–have been both eloquent in construction and unequivocal in message. That said: a…
…Insurrection, which has been all over this story, has the list. Presidents are a cautious species, so it is notable when Ron Liebowitz, President of Middlebury College calls the ASA’a…
…rediscover forgotten school traditions or, if necessary, to invent new ones. Similar committees had also been created by administrators on a number of other campuses including Emory, Duke, Middlebury, and…
…a resonant chord. I’ve also heard (positively) from readers at other colleges that number among Bowdoin’s peer institutions, including Amherst, Middlebury, and Mt. Holyoke. One of the senior professors at…
…2006, and that year Middlebury College began “giving students who identify themselves as gay in the admissions process an ‘attribute’ — the same flagging of an application that members of…
…at Kalamazoo College in Michigan.” Colleges have attempted to tighten controls on students taking study-abroad programs. One method, adopted by Middlebury College in Vermont, is to place all the grades…
…the Middlebury professor wildly asserted, “I do not believe all speech is free. I do not believe attacks against the most marginalized members of academe or society (and believe me,…
…a course in Shakespeare, including Harvard University, Catholic University, California Institute of Technology, Middlebury College, Stanford University, and Wellesley College. However, 55 of the 70 did not require its English majors…
…Middlebury College anthropologist, happened upon the town plaza of Chajul, which is near Ms. Menchu’s village of Chimel. In passing, he mentioned a key passage in Ms. Menchu’s autobiography to…
…arts colleges are eye-opening. For instance, students at Pomona College whose parents earned no more than $30,000 per year paid net prices averaging just $344. Low-income students at Carleton, Middlebury…
…worship on campus. Middlebury College in Vermont is in the midst of a similar controversy. Proposed anti-bias language in the student handbook says that no student may be eliminated from…
Middlebury College is expected to announce a plan to hold the annual rise of tuition to one percentage point above the inflation rate. This announcement will likely be greeted with…
…by Middlebury College in Vermont, is to place all the grades students earn overseas on their transcripts. David Macey, director of off-campus study at Middlebury, believes that this measure “…will…
…that a director of institutional research at his school had forced the resignation of the provost by telling the president that manipulated data had been sent to U.S.News. Middlebury College…
…declines. Even top-ranked liberal arts colleges from the U.S. News and World Report list saw application drops: 20% at Williams, 12% at Middlebury, 10% at Swarthmore, 3.5% at Carleton. The…
…array of well-regarded private colleges, including Bowdoin, Brandeis, Colby, Grinnell, Middlebury, and Oberlin, have found ways to get around need-blind. The typical strategy is to increase the number of transfer,…
…as a side effect of the global financial crises would be a mistake says David Colander, chair of the economics department at Middlebury College. In his recent Chronicle of Higher…
…top liberal-arts colleges such as Bard, Bowdoin, Mount Holyoke, Middlebury, and Wheaton. Among the very most selective schools, Harvard and Yale still require applicants to submit SAT scores, but at…
…gender, sexual orientation). In a baccalaureate address at Middlebury College’s graduation, President Ronald D. Liebowitz talked about the “value of discomfort” in listening to and grappling with new ideas. Liebowitz…
…of a Rehnquist Professorship at Middlebury was dubbed a “symbolic act of violence” by a professor. Presumably, due to his greater proximity to Asmodeus, Andrew Card would stand as an…