Dear Colleagues, Middlebury may nominate two members of the faculty for the annual competition for Summer Stipends sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Each stipend provides $6,000 for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing on a … Continue reading →…Continue Reading NEH Summer Stipend Deadline is July 29
Month: June 2011
New Platforms for Teaching, Learning and Research
Beginning next fall with the 2011-12 academic year, Segue will be replaced by a collection of platforms connected by the Course Hub. The Course Hub will become the definitive starting point for all online course resources and will provide links … Continue reading →…Continue Reading New Platforms for Teaching, Learning and Research
Moodle @ Middlebury
Moodle has been selected as the primary learning management system (LMS) for Middlebury College. Other LMS platforms considered were Sakai and Blackboard. The Curricular Technology (CT) team researched these three LMS platforms extensively and organized a pilot program that involved … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Moodle @ Middlebury
Memorial Trees
Reunion and Commencement is the season when memorial trees always come to my mind. Middlebury has over 85 class trees and memorial trees-a class tree may be planted by a class during a reunion, while a memorial tree is often … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Memorial Trees
Area 51 AD notes, May 26, 2011
Present: Mike Roy, Carol Peddie, Danna Gianforte, Terry Simpkins, Shel Sax, Mary Backus, and Chris Norris Chris presented an overview of Roadmap, a new tool designed for “project portfolio management” and which will supersede the Project Directory. Current thinking is … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Area 51 AD notes, May 26, 2011
College Presents 2011 Staff Recognition Awards
A good crowd was on hand Friday, June 10, at the Juice Bar in McCullough for this year’s Staff Recognition Awards ceremony. The recipients for 2011 were Harold “Butch” Atkins, Eric R. Leno, Tiffany Sargent, and Nina Stowe. President Ron … Continue reading →…Continue Reading College Presents 2011 Staff Recognition Awards
Anne Knowles (Geography) Receives Two Grants
Anne Knowles (Geography) has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend to support her work on a book titled Holocaust Geographies. This book is the culmination of an international, multi-disciplinary collaboration between nine geographers and historians developing new … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Anne Knowles (Geography) Receives Two Grants