On May 8th our community walked out to protest the recent cuts in compensation and enrollment increases announced by the Senior Leadership Group.

The event, co-organized by AAUP and a group of 12 senior faculty members of the Economics Department, garnered over 300 attendants who showed up to support the demands, and defend Middlebury from a self-imposed crisis.

Importantly, speakers at the event represented students, faculty and staff, in a remarkable display of unity.

You can read their remarks here:

See the coverage in the press:

• Middlebury College faculty, staff and students take action against administration’s budget cuts, VT DIGGER.
• College community protests budget cuts. Addison Independent.
• Middlebury College faculty, students protest proposed budget cuts. WCAX.
• Hundreds attend faculty, staff-led walkout to protest budget cuts. The Middlebury Campus.

At the end of the event we delivered a sense of the faculty motion co-sponsored by AAUP and Faculty Council, demanding the cuts to be rescinded, together with a petition led by the Economists with more than 800 signatures.