Month: May 2016

EBL Ebook Program Suspended Until July 1

You may know that Middlebury uses what’s called a “purchase on demand” model for its largest collection of electronic books, EBL (Electronic Book Library). Under this model, we place the catalog records in Midcat but don’t pay anything for the ebook unless and until it’s actually used. Then, we pay a fraction of the list […]…Continue Reading EBL Ebook Program Suspended Until July 1

THE WEEK’S HEADLINES

Here are the week’s headlines from the News Room: Middlebury Celebrates Commencement 2016 Nine from Middlebury Receive Fulbright Awards College Grants Tenure to Six Members of the Faculty Broad of Trustees Approves Budget, Tenure at Spring Meeting Middlebury Institute Confers 270 Graduate Degrees College Counseling Workshop June 10 Painter’s Cane: The Story Behind a Middlebury […]…Continue Reading THE WEEK’S HEADLINES

HR UPDATE: THIS WEEK’S EMPLOYMENT SNAPSHOT

There are currently 1 faculty position, 49 external job postings (regular, on-call and temporary), and 5 internal job postings on the Middlebury employment opportunities web sites. Employment Quick Links: Faculty Employment Opportunities:http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/administration/prospective_faculty/employment Staff Employment Opportunities: go/staff-jobs (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/staff-jobs (off campus) Please note – to view only internal staff postings, please use the internal posting search filter that was highlighted […]…Continue Reading HR UPDATE: THIS WEEK’S EMPLOYMENT SNAPSHOT

College Counseling Workshop June 10, 2016

Register Here for Workshop The annual “Applying to College” workshop sponsored by the Admissions Office has been scheduled for Friday, June 10, 2016 of Reunion Weekend at McCardell Bicentennial Hall. High school age children and grandchildren of Middlebury alumni, faculty and staff as well as students from Vermont high schools are invited. Preference is given […]…Continue Reading College Counseling Workshop June 10, 2016

To My Favorite Student in the Class of 2016

It’s that time of year again.  Middlebury held its commencement ceremony Sunday, and as I have done ever since I started this blog, I commemorate the event by sitting down on the deck and, while the bluebirds fly by,  pouring a deep glass of single malt (thanks Tuesday Luncheon auditors), and raising a toast to […]…Continue Reading To My Favorite Student in the Class of 2016

Weekly Web Updates – May 30, 2016

Updates WordPress BadgeOS 1.4.8 WordPress Jetpack 4.0.3 WordPress Social Icons Widget by WPZOOM 2.0.2 WordPress The Events Calendar 4.1.4 Tweaks and Fixes A recent update to MediaWiki caused an error when looking at the difference between revisions, which we’ve now fixed. The “GObacktionary” now lists GO shortcuts alphabetically by URL. Fixed an issue where the […]…Continue Reading Weekly Web Updates – May 30, 2016