The Appeals Council hears petitions from faculty members who wish to contend a promotion review that results in non-reappointment. Appeals are granted only on grounds involving procedural errors that may have influenced the review committee and/or the president, or violations of academic freedom. The Appeals Council consists of five tenured faculty members, elected by the faculty. No two members of the Council may be from the same department.

 2012-13 Membership

William Hart, History (2015)

Mike Olinick, Mathematics (2013)

Susan Burch, American Studies (2013)

Laurie Essig, Sociology/Anthropology (2014)

Larry Yarbrough, Religion (2014)

The EAC has two primary functions: to oversee the general direction of the College's curriculum and to make recommendations on staffing and the allocation of teaching resources. The EAC consists of five tenured members of the faculty, elected by the faculty. No more than two members of the committee may be from one division, and no more than one from a department.

2012-13 Membership

James Davis, Co-Chair, Associate VP for Academic Affairs; Religion

Andi Lloyd, Co-Chair, Dean of Faculty; Biology

Chris Klyza, Political Science/Environmental Studies (2014)

Suzanne Gurland, Psychology (2014)

Antonia Losano, English & American Literatures (2015)

Amy Morsman, History (2013)

Peter Schumer, Mathematics (2015)

Inquiries for the EAC may be directed to Dean of the Faculty or the Associate VP for Academic Affairs. The entire committee may be contacted via email at educationalaffairscommittee@middlebury.edu.

For more information about requesting staffing positions, teaching expectations, the course release policy, and EAC reports, please visit the EAC subpage.

The Faculty Council advises the president and serves as a channel of communication between the faculty and the administration. The Council consists of four tenured and two untenured members elected by the faculty. Members of the faculty in their first or second year of appointment are not eligible for election, nor are those on part-time, associate, visiting, or other special appointments, or those who are currently under tenure review. Members of Faculty Council sometimes report to the faculty as one of  two subcommittees: the Committee on Conference with the Trustees, and the Committee on Finance and Planning.  At the end of each academic year, Faculty Council also serves as the Committee on Committees, charged with making faculty appointments to other college committees.

2012-13 Membership

Sujata Moorti, Women’s and Gender Studies (2013)

Tamar Mayer, Geography (2013)

Bert Johnson, Political Science (2015)

Peter Matthews, Economics (2015)

Florence Feiereisen, German (2015)

Kareem Khalifa, Philosophy (2015)

The committee may be contacted, en masse, via e-mail facultycouncil@middlebury.edu

Faculty Council Archives - Minutes of council meetings, tagged by content (Content is restricted to members of the Middlebury Community.)

The Promotions Committee advises the president on cases in which a faculty member is under review for promotion with tenure or to full professor.  The Promotion Committee also serves as a body of review in termination for cause cases involving faculty members. The committee consists of three full-time full professors who are elected by the faculty. No more than two members of the committee may be from one division and no more than one from a department.

2012-13 Membership

John Emerson, Mathematics (2013)

Peter Hamlin, Music (2013)

Jane Chaplin, Classics (2014)

The Reappointments Committee advises the president in all reappointment reviews.  This committee also conducts ten-year reviews. The committee consists of three full-time full professors who are elected by the faculty. No more than two members of the committee may be from one division and no more than one from a department.

2012-13 Membership

Guntram Herb, Geography (2013)

Stephen Snyder, Japanese (2014)

Michelle McCauley, Psychology (2015)

Susan Watson, Physics (2013)

The Faculty Moderator presides over Faculty Meetings, participates with Faculty Council and with the administration in planning the agenda for faculty meetings, and encourages faculty to make suggestions for the agenda.

To write to the Faculty Moderator, click here.  The moderator will also maintain a webpage.

2012-13 Membership

Karen Guttentag, Co-Chair (ex-officio), Assoc. Dean for Judicial Affairs & Student Life

David Price, Co-Chair, English & American Literatures

Cates Baldridge, English & American Literatures

Phani Wunnava, Economics

2012-13 Membership

Greg Buckles, Chair, Dean of Admissions

Jeff Buettner, Music

Matt Dickinson, Political Science

John Schmitt, Mathematics

Paul Sommers, Economics

Louisa Stein, Film & Media Culture

Kim Downs, Assoc. VP for Student Financial Services

Jennifer Nuceder, Research Associate, Planning and Assessment

Erin Quinn, Director of Athletics

Student appointees TBD

2012-13 Membership

Jodi Litchfield, Coordinator (ex-officio), ADA Coordinator

Maggie Clinton, History

Hang Du, Chinese

Carlos Velez, Psychology

Laura Carotenuto, Manager of Employee Relations, Human Resources

Elizabeth Karnes Keefe, Asst. Dean of Language Schools

Matt Longman, Dean of Wonnacott Commons

Yonna McShane, Director of Learning Resources, Lecturer in Psychology

Carol Peddie, Assoc. Dean of LIS

Joy Pile, Research and Instruction Librarian

2012-13 Membership

Gus Jordan, Executive Director, Health and Counseling Services

Daniel Brayton, English & American Literatures

Christal Brown, Dance

Robert Prasch, Economics

Erin Quinn, Director of Athletics

Student appointees TBD

2012-13 Membership

Drew Macan, Chair, Assoc. VP for Human Resources & Organizational Development

Kristen Anderson, Assoc. VP for Budget and Financial Planning

Cheryl Mullins, Compensation and Benefits Manager

Patrick Norton, VP for Finance and Treasurer

David Dorman, Mathematics

Dan Breen, Director of Development, Graduate and Special Programs

Rick James, Senior IT Systems Manager

Sandra Laird, Public Safety Officer

2012-13 Membership

Lisa Gates (ex-officio)

Jessica Holmes, Economics

Hedya Klein, Studio Art

Student appointees TBD

2012-13 Membership

Sara Stroup, Representative, Political Science

2012-13 Membership

Richard Saunders, Chair, Director, College Museum

Doug Perkins, Clerk, Administrative Operations Manager, Museum of Art

Kristen Anderson, Assoc. VP for Budget and Financial Planning

James Butler, Studio Art

Pieter Broucke, Director of the Arts

Christa Clifford, Assoc. Director of Operations and Finance, Arts Center

Norm Cushman, Assoc. VP for Facilities Services

Emmie Donadio, Chief Curator, Museum of Art

Robert Graham, Trustee

John Houskeeper, Museum Preparator

John Huddleston, Studio Art

R. Lapham, Arts Council chair

Nicholas Clifford, Friends of the Art Museum representative

Cynthia Packert, History of Art & Architecture

Kenneth Pohlman, Museum Designer

Linda Whitton, Trustee

Janie Chester Young, Director of Parent Giving

Student appointees TBD

2012-13 Membership

Don Kjelleren, Director, Career Services

Sylvia Manning, Manager, Custodial Services

Joanna Shipley, Department Coordinator, Biology

Michael Wakefield, Electrician

Jennifer Nuceder, Research Associate, Planning & Assessment

Kelly Giard, Office Assistant, Dining Services

2012-13 Membership

Shirley Collado, Co-Chair, Dean of the College

Luke Brown, student, Co-Chair

Kim Cronise, Psychology

Leger Grindon, Film & Media Culture

Yumna Siddiqi, English & American Literatures

Doug Adams, Associate Dean of Students for Residential and Student Life Policy

Ashley Calkins, Ex-officio, Community Engagement Coordinator, EIA

Tim Parsons, Facilities Services

Linda Ross, Assistant Director, Custodial Services

Riley O'Rourke ‘14, SGA President

Zachary Hitchcock '12.5

Addie Cunniff '13

Rachel Sider '14, Secretary

Daniel Prior '14, Alternate

The Curriculum Committee considers proposals for new courses, reviews proposals for new minors, and oversees other additions or changes to the curriculum. It is a subcommittee of the Educational Affairs Committee.

 2012-13 Membership

Robert Cluss, Chair, Dean of Curriculum & Faculty Development; Chemistry/Biochemistry

Leticia Arroyo Abad, Economics

Eliza Garrison, History of Art

Samuel Liebhaber, Arabic

Frank Swenton, Mathematics

LeRoy Graham, Registrar

For more information, please contact the chair, or Assistant in Academic Administration Janis Audet. For course proposal forms, please visit the Curriculum Committee subpage.

2012-13 Membership

Claudia Cooper, Chair, Education Studies

Larry Hamberlin, Music

Alexis Peri, History

2012-13 Membership

Andrew Gardner, Co-chair, Head Coach, Men’s & Women’s Nordic Skiing

Charlotte Tate, Co-chair, Assoc. Director, Rohatyn Center for International Affairs

Jach Byrne, Vice-chair, Director of Sustainability Integration

K. Scott (ex-officio)

Natalie Eppelsheimer, German

Jamie McCallum, Sociology/Anthropology

Nicholas Muller, Economics

Jeffrey Munroe, Geology

Missy Beckwith, Assistant Director, Support Services

Drew Macan, Assoc. VP for Human Resources & Organizational Development

Carol Peddie, Assoc. Dean of LIS

Student appointees TBD

2012-13 Membership

Michael Roy, Ex-officio, Dean of LIS and Chief Information Officer

Kemi Fuentes-George, Political Science

Stephen Ratcliff, Physics

Martha Woodruff, Philosophy

Additional appointees TBD

2012-13 Membership

Kim Downs, Chair, Assoc. VP for Student Financial Services

William Hart, History

John Schmitt, Mathematics

Patrick Norton, VP for Finance & Treasurer

Mike Schoenfeld, Senior Vice President and Chief Philanthropic Advisor

Staff support TBD

2012-13 Membership

Robert Cohen, English & American Literatures

Bruce Peterson, Mathematics

Charles Dunning, student 

Gilian Lui, student

2012-13 Membership

Arlinda Wickland, Ex-officio, Director, Student Fellowships & Health Professions Advising

Jeff Byers, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Catherine Combelles, Biology

Molly Costanza-Robinson, Chemistry, Biochemistry & Environmental Studies

Jeff Dunham, Physics

Rachael Joo, American Studies

Tom Root, Biology

Christopher Star, Classics

The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) is mandated by U.S. federal law to oversee and evaluate all aspects of Middlebury College's animal care and use program. The IACUC is committed to assisting faculty, students and staff in upholding the college's commitment to the finest care and most humane utilization of animals and to enabling meaningful scientific research and teaching.

For more information, please visit the IACUC website (content restricted to members of the Middlebury College Community).

The IRB exists to protect people who participate in original research conducted at Middlebury College or by a member of the College community.  Research that involves interviewing other people, distributing surveys, conducting experiments on people, or even observing particular people in their daily lives is normally what we call "research on human subjects," and all such research requires some level of approval from the IRB.

 2012-13 Membership:

Michael Sheridan, Chair, Sociology/Anthropology

Matthew Kimble, Psychology

John A. Maluccio, Economics

Lynn Owens, Sociology/Anthropology

Ira Schiffer, Chaplain’s Office

James C. Davis, Administrative Liaison

Alison Darrow, Science Grants Specialist

Bonnie Stevens, Community Representative

For more information about applying for research approval, please visit the Institutional Review Board website.

Middlebury College invests its students, staff and faculty with the power to maintain community values through our judicial system. The Academic Judicial Board (AJB) reviews alleged violations of Middlebury's Honor Code: cheating, plagiarism, or other forms of academic dishonesty. The Community Judicial Board (CJB) reviews alleged violations of Middlebury's Community Standards and General Policies; Sexual Assault Policy; Alcohol and Other Drugs Policy; and other Handbook policies when the alleged violation is serious enough that official College discipline (probation or suspension) is a possible outcome.

Academic Judicial Board, 2012-13 Membership

Rebecca Bennette, Co-chair, History

Anne Goodsell, Physics

Jason Mittell, Film & Media Culture

Elizabeth Napier, English & American Literatures

Wei He Xu, Chinese

Students appointees TBD

Community Judicial Board, 2012-13 Membership

TBD, co-chair

Lorraine Besser-Jones, Philosophy

Rebecca Gould, Religion

David West, Geology

Susan Levine, Asst. Director of Alumni and Parent Programs

Ian Martin, Dining Services

Student appointees TBD

Please visit the Judicial Affairs website for more information.

In 2008, Middlebury College released its Master Plan to guide the college’s growth and development over the next 50 years. The master plan sets forth 10 overall goals:

• Promoting sustainability in all college operations and planning
• Enhancing Middlebury’s relationship to the ecological landscape
• Reinforcing the campus’s architectural character and scale
• Promoting an accessible pedestrian-friendly campus
• Improving the relationship between town and college
• Increasing the variety of campus open spaces
• Optimizing pedestrian and vehicle traffic flow
• Fostering year-round campus
• Consolidating academic units on campus
• Establishing connectivity between campus areas

The Master Plan Implementation Committee (MPIC) monitors and ensures that all design projects comply with the intent of the Master Plan; interprets the Plan and Guidelines; recommends exceptions when appropriate, and recommends modification or development of the Campus Master Plan as required. The MPIC also evaluates projects to ensure that they meet the highest qualitative and sustainable standards.

2012-13 Membership

Tim Spears, Chair, Vice President for Academic Affairs

Jennifer Bleich, Associate Director of Corporate & Foundation Relations

Pieter Broucke, Director of the Arts

Jack Byrne, Director of Sustainability Integration

Norm Cushman, AVP for Facilities Services

Mark Gleason, Project Manager, Facilities Services

Andi Lloyd, Dean of Faculty

Tom McGinn, Project Manager, Facilities Services

John McLeod, Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture

Tim Parsons, Horticulturist

2012-13 Membership

Paul Monod, Chair, History

Erik Bleich, Political Science

Rebecca Handler-Spitz, Chinese

William Poulin-Deltour, French

Student appointees TBD

2012-13 Membership

Architectural Studies
John McLeod, History of Art & Architecture

Business
William Pyle, Economics

Engineering
Daniel Scharstein, Computer Science

Law
Murray Dry, Political Science

The Space Committee administers the Space Policy and Process as approved by the President’s Staff; makes fair decisions on space requests most beneficial to meeting College goals and mission; acts as arbiter for space conflicts; and allocates annual space change funds among all requests.

2012-13 Membership

Tim Spears, Chair, Vice President for Academic Affairs

Lisa Ayers, Director of Events Scheduling and Information

James Davis, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs

Ann Crumb, Associate Vice President for College Advancement

Michael Geisler, Vice President for Language Schools, Schools Abroad & Graduate Programs

Erin Quinn, Director of Athletics

Mary Stanley, Space Manager

The Staff Resources Committee (SRC) is responsible for reviewing requests for staff positions, and making recommendations to the President as to which requests should be approved. In Fall 2008, in response to the economic recession, the SRC played a lead role in examining staff level, workloads, and departmental missions across the College, and guiding the institution’s efforts to reduce staff through attrition. The committee continues to engage these broader institutional issues while also considering individual position requests.

2012-13 Membership

Drew Macan, Co-Chair, AVP for Human Resources and Organizational Development

Tim Spears, Co-Chair, Vice President for Academic Affairs

Susan Campbell Baldridge, Vice President for Planning and Assessment
Shirley Collado, Dean of the College
Norm Cushman, Director of Facilities Services
Michael Geisler,Vice President for Language Schools, Schools Abroad & Graduate Programs
Jim Keyes,  Vice President for College Advancement
Patrick Norton,Vice President for Finance and Treasurer
Kenneth Pierce, Staff Council President