Middlebury College

Vermont’s Middlebury College held a commencement ceremony Tuesday, to celebrate the achievements of the class of 2020 — which was denied its originally-expected commencement because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “It is a graduation that is also a homecoming,” Middlebury College President Laurie Patton observed in addressing the class of 2020 at a ceremony outdoors on the campus’s quad Tuesday. “We…

The class of 2020 didn’t get a proper commencement ceremony after COVID-19 sent students home early. Tuesday they were welcomed back to celebrate the milestone properly.

Middlebury College is moving to remote instruction to end the fall semester in light of rising COVID numbers on campus, the school announced Thursday. The news comes as the Vermont college reported 34 newly confirmed cases in addition to 15 cases already active. All but one of those cases were in students. The school’s final day of in-person classes was…

A private liberal arts college in Vermont says it’s getting closer to its goal of powering its buildings in ways that address the threat from climate change. A 30-acre parcel in Middlebury will soon be home to 29,000 solar panels built on trackers that are able to follow the movement of the sun. The panels will provide roughly a third…

A Vermont college is getting closer to powering all its buildings sustainably.

Students at Vermont’s Middlebury College are reacting to a change this week to one of the most recognizable buildings on campus, due to a link its old name had to a shameful chapter in history. The liberal arts school removed the name Mead from Mead Memorial Chapel. “We wouldn’t want the name of a eugenicist on one of the...

The Vermont college changed a dormitory’s name because of its eugenics-promoting namesake, John Mead.