Blog Posts from the Office of Digital Learning: ODL Summer Interns, Digital School of Russian, School in Morocco Pre-Immersion, & More!

Check out the latest blog posts from the Office of Digital Learning: Introducing ODL’s Summer Interns AALAC: Digital Language Learning—Wrap Up School in Morocco Pre-Immersion Update Digital School of Russian President’s Course Videos Morris Presents in Denver MiddCast News: A New Podcast Begins Soon! Want to receive blog updates in your inbox? Subscribe to our…Continue Reading Blog Posts from the Office of Digital Learning: ODL Summer Interns, Digital School of Russian, School in Morocco Pre-Immersion, & More!

Pay Guidelines for Temporary Student Employment

The Student Employment Office has come up with recommended guidelines for paying students that perform work that is one-time only (i.e.; DJs, musicians, photographers, etc…), based upon an audit of Temp Cards received during the previous academic year. These recommendations can be found on the SEO website under Supervisor FAQs. See ‘What’s the pay rate…Continue Reading Pay Guidelines for Temporary Student Employment

Sustainability Pledge Benefit

We’re excited to announce the Sustainability Pledge Benefit available to all Middlebury College faculty and staff! One of our core values at Middlebury is a commitment to leadership in environmental stewardship and sustainability. As a way to support this value and to celebrate our recent achievement of carbon neutrality, Middlebury is encouraging employees to reduce…Continue Reading Sustainability Pledge Benefit

Reacting to the Past

Please join us on Tuesday, May 9, 2017, at 12:15 pm in the Center for Teaching, Learning & Research for a discussion of the Reacting to the Past approach to learning. Reacting to the Past (RTTP) consists of elaborate games, set in the past, in which students are assigned roles informed by primary and secondary…Continue Reading Reacting to the Past

Academic Roundtable – The DLA at Three Years: Looking Back and Moving Forward

Please join us at 12:15 pm on Tuesday, May 16, 2017, in the Abernethy Room in the Axinn Center (please note change of venue). As we approach the three-year anniversary of the Digital Liberal Arts Initiative (and the conclusion of our Mellon grant), we want to discuss what we have learned, and where we will…Continue Reading Academic Roundtable – The DLA at Three Years: Looking Back and Moving Forward

Premiere of a new choral work by Middlebury alumna Christina Whitten Thomas ‘01.5

Award-winning composer and Middlebury alumna Christina Whitten Thomas ‘01.5 returns to campus for the premiere of her new choral suite, Songs of Gold, on Friday evening, April 21, 2017, 7:30 p.m., in Robison Concert Hall at the Mahaney Center for the Arts. Commissioned by the Vermont Choral Union (directed by Jeff Rehbach, music department, who also conducts…Continue Reading Premiere of a new choral work by Middlebury alumna Christina Whitten Thomas ‘01.5

JOIN US FOR THE 11TH ANNUAL SPRING STUDENT SYMPOSIUM ON FRIDAY 4/21

Spring Student Symposium We invite all members of the Middlebury College community, guests, and members of the public to join us in celebrating the academic and creative endeavors of Middlebury students. The symposium on Friday, April 21 will feature oral and poster presentations and displays throughout the day in McCardell Bicentennial Hall. Student presenters come…Continue Reading JOIN US FOR THE 11TH ANNUAL SPRING STUDENT SYMPOSIUM ON FRIDAY 4/21

Will Nash receives funding to participate in NEH Summer Institute

William Nash (American Studies, English & American Literatures) has been awarded a grant to participate in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute titled Making Modernism: Literature and Culture in Twentieth-Century  Chicago, 1893-1955. The four-week institute is sponsored by and based at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Participants will explore Chicago’s contribution to the…Continue Reading Will Nash receives funding to participate in NEH Summer Institute