Monthly Archives: February 2015

Professional Development Workshops Presented by John Tallmadge

Join us for professional development workshops presented by John Tallmadge, an educational and literary consultant (who is the author of Meeting the Tree of Life: A Teacher’s Path), on Friday, March 6th, in the CTLR Suite in the Davis Family Library. John has worked with a number of Middlebury faculty. To sign up, please visit https://sites.middlebury.edu/ctlrmarch2015/

The three workshops on Friday are:

12:15-1:20 pm Workshop 1 – Staying Alive in the Beginning and Warrior Phases of a Career (for junior and term faculty) – This workshop is primarily for junior faculty as well as to those not on the tenure track and deals with the challenges of leading a balanced life during the beginning and warrior phases of one’s career. Lunch included.

1:30-2:30 pm Workshop 2 – Academic Publishing: from leveraging the dissertation to rendering mature work into articles and books (for all ranks) – This workshop, designed for both junior and senior faculty, deals with the nuts and bolts of academic publishing, both for those just getting started and for those whose experience may feel a bit out of date; it covers journals (print and online) as well as books.

2:45-3:45 pm Workshop 3 – Staying Vital in the Citizen and Later Phases of a Career: leadership, mentoring, and retirement (for senior faculty) – This workshop engages senior faculty in the citizen and later phases of their careers, when leadership calls and retirement looms (or beckons) and the challenges of leading a balanced, healthy life can feel particularly acute.

Application Deadline for Spring Student Symposium is Fri. 2/27

Remember to submit your application by midnight on Friday, 2/27 to present in the Spring Student Symposium this April! Check out the video below to hear from fellow students who have presented why they would do it again.

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Dear Students and Colleagues:

Join us in celebrating the diversity of a Middlebury education! The 2015 Spring Student Symposium will begin in the Mahaney Center for the Arts on Thursday night, April 9 with a keynote talk by Kevin Murungi ’01, the Director of Human Rights and Foreign Policy at Global Kids, followed by a reception and student presentations. The Symposium continues all day Friday, April 10 with presentations of student work in McCardell Bicentennial Hall.

We invite students from all four years and in all departments and programs to participate. If you have done research in a class, independently, or through an internship; if you would like to read, show, or perform a creative work; if you have a project to present in a poster or oral format, please apply to present your academic work! The application deadline is February 27, 2015.

Why you should present with graphic

More information and the application are available at the Undergraduate Research website at http://go.middlebury.edu/sym.

Students: Your application must include a project description (200 words) that has been approved by your faculty or staff sponsor.

Faculty and Staff: Please encourage students to apply.

We look forward to seeing you all at the Symposium!

Pat Manley, Professor of Geology
Lisa Gates, Associate Dean for Fellowships and Research

for the Spring Symposium Planning Committee

…the Symposium encapsulates Middlebury at its best. It was valuable for me to prepare and then present in a professional setting. An equally valuable component of the Symposium is how it celebrates students work. I am grateful that Middlebury has put time, energy and thought into a creating a day that celebrates all that goes on here– much of which could go unseen and unheard.
— 2014 Symposium Participant

Writing In the Changing Academy

The Writing Program invites you to attend one of the events in our upcoming symposium, Writing In the Changing Academy.

Tues, Feb 24 4:30- 6 pm, “Memoria: Every Writer’s Muse,” an interactive lecture with Victor Villanueva,Regents Professor and Director of the Writing Program at Washington State University, author of the award-winning book:Bootstraps, From an American Academic of Color, Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114 BCE to 2013 CE..Abernethy Room

Wed, Feb. 25 12:15-1:30 pm, “Writing, Identity and Power,” a student-led conversation for faculty, students and staff. Carr Hall Lounge. If you know that you plan to attend lunch, please RSVP our coordinator, Sheerya Shivers, sshivers@middlebury.edu. If you can’t commit to lunch in advance, you are still very welcome to show up.

Sadly, because of illness of the speaker, the Wednesday lecture is cancelled.

4:30-6 pm, “Traveling Down a Desire Line: Surviving Where Academia and Community Meet,” an interactive lecture with Julianna Ávila, Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, author of Moving Critical Literacies Forward: A New Look at Praxis Across Contexts (Routledge). Robert A. Jones House

Mary Ellen Bertolini
Writing Center Director & Senior Lecturer, Writing
Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research