An essay by D. E. Axinn Professor of English & Creative Writing Jay Parini, "Pinter's Plays, Pinter's Politics" appeared in the Nov. 11 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education. For the full text, click here.
The Nov. 25 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education includes an article titled "Fresh From the Farm," which discusses the trend among colleges to buy more products from local farms. The article begins with several paragraphs about Middlebury, includes many mentions of Middlebury throughout the piece, and concludes with several paragraphs about Middlebury. Matthew Biette and Charlie Sargent of dining services are quoted, along with several local food producers who supply food to the college. See full text here.
The Oct.21 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education includes an article titled "How Much is Too Much?" regarding the soaring coast of private colleges. Middlebury College is mentioned twice in the article.
The Oct. 7 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education includes an essay by Middlebury College Professor of English Jay Parini (currently on academic year leave in London), titled "Eyes on the Prizes," about differing attitudes toward literary prizes abroad an in the United States.
The Sept. 16 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education has an item, "Tilting at Turbines," on page A8 in the Short Subjects section about the Spanish School's celebration of the 400th anniversary of "Don Quixote." The item consists of a photo, taken by Ari Joseph '05, of Middlebury's new wind turbine and two members of the Spanish School faculty dressed as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, with a caption: Last month Middlebury College celebrated the construction of a wind turbine on its campus and the 400th anniversary of Cervantes's epic Don Quixote. Instructors and students from the college's summer Spanish School completed a continuous 48-hour reading of the work, including its most famous episode, in which the hero mistakes windmills for giants and sallies forth to slay them. Thankfully, the new wind turbine was spared.
"A Longer View of Sustainability Dominates Annual Campus-Planning Conference" quotes Facilities Planning Project Manager Mark Gleason and describes Middlebury's environmental efforts in the last three paragraphs. A photo of one of the new Atwater Commons dorms with a caption about the building's natural cooling system is included in the hard copy edition, which is on page A25. The article appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 26 online edition and the Aug. 5 hard copy edition.
The hologram of President Emeritus and College Professor John McCardell was the subject of a "Short Subjects" story, "Portraiture's New Dimension," in The Chronicle of Higher Education on June 24. The story was accompanied by a photo of the hologram and included quotes from Richard Saunders.
Bill McKibben was quoted in the April 22 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education in an article titled "Knowing When to Log Off" (http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i33/33a03401.htm).
Professor of English Jay Parini has recently written several essays for The Chronicle of Higher Education, including one about Saul Bellow, "When I Sit at the Typewriter, I Open My Heart," in the April 22 edition and "The Considerable Satisfaction of 2 Pages a Day" in the April 8 edition.
Middlebury is mentioned in an article in the April 29 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education. The article, which appears in "Short Subjects" and is titled "A Warm Acceptance," discusses how S. Fred Singer campaigned for and won the Flat Earth Award (http://www.flatearthaward.org), which was created by students in Assistant Professor of Economics Jon Isham's winter term class, "Building the New Climate Movement," as part of their course work. The text of the article is below.
In the Jan. 7 electronic edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education, the description of a topic for an upcoming colloquy titled "Chalk Talk for Teachers" includes a link to an article on five books that offer faculty advice on how to improve their teaching, "Please Take My Advice." The five books include Professor of English Jay Parini's 2004 book "The Art of Teaching." The text of the article that describes Jay's book is on the Web at http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i23/23a01401.htm.