Tag: Diversity

Women’s Association of Venture & Equity (WAVE)

APPLY NOW to attend the 2023 Women in Alternative Investment Career Forum on October 13th The headlines and studies are pervasive on the gap in women in alternatives despite the proven value to diversity.  The goal of the Career Forum is to broaden the funnel of women into the alternatives industry and provide a setting […]…Continue Reading Women’s Association of Venture & Equity (WAVE)

Ryan Tauriainen, Former White House Fellow serving in the US Department of Education, answers career related questions LGBTQ+ identifying students might have when seeking job opportunities

Peer Career Advisor (PCA) and Posse Scholar Zoey Ellis ’22 interviewed Ryan Tauriainen ’08 to answer common career related questions LGBTQ+ identifying students might have when seeking job opportunities. Zoey: What activities or student organizations were you involved in during college and how did they help you get to where you are today? Ryan: While […]…Continue Reading Ryan Tauriainen, Former White House Fellow serving in the US Department of Education, answers career related questions LGBTQ+ identifying students might have when seeking job opportunities

Meaningful Juxtapositions: Reshaping our Permanent Collection Galleries

Since, as a result of pandemic safety measures, the Museum is physically closed to the public until March of 2021, our staff are taking advantage of the continued closure to rethink substantially the ways in which we contextualize and display objects a……Continue Reading Meaningful Juxtapositions: Reshaping our Permanent Collection Galleries

Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education-FREE

AASHE Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher EducationMobilizing for a Just TransitionOctober 20 – 22, 2020 Middlebury College is a Host Institution for this virtual conference and FREE REGISTRATION is available for interested Middlebury students, faculty and staff.  Registration includes access to all sessions and events during and for 30 days after the conference. Humanity faces a series of intensifying and interrelated […]…Continue Reading Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education-FREE

A Roomful of People, Thinking and Talking

Last week, the College held a panel discussion about affirmative action and the case currently before the Supreme Court, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, which could overturn affirmative action in higher education. We hoped that the discussion would be sincere and honest—and that people would feel comfortable enough to express themselves, even if […]…Continue Reading A Roomful of People, Thinking and Talking

Factoring-in Race

On October 10, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments about whether the University of Texas exceeded its right to consider race and ethnicity in its admissions decisions (Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin).  Institutions of higher education flooded the Supreme Court with amici curiae briefs supporting the University of Texas. Middlebury joined with […]…Continue Reading Factoring-in Race