Alumni College 2012
August 30-September 2, Bread Loaf Campus
Click on the photo above to see a video about what four days at Middlebury's beautiful Bread Loaf campus with some of the College's most inspiring teachers is like.
Take a vacation in Vermont this summer and explore your interests with other alumni, parents, and friends of the College. This year’s Alumni College brings together some of Middlebury’s finest professors to share their knowledge and excitement about five fascinating topics. You might have a hard time deciding which course to take, so it’s reassuring to know that you can’t go wrong: they’re all going to be great!
- Examine the issues and the strategies in the current presidential campaign with an expert whose blog, Presidential Power, is a must-read for journalists and political insiders.
- Explore Lake Champlain with two senior geologists aboard our new research vessel, R/V Folger, and learn about the dramatic changes taking place in the lake due to human impacts, invasive species, and global warming.
- Study the poems of Robert Frost while visiting some of the places that inspired them with an author who is widely regarded as one of this generation’s best nature writers.
- Learn how technology is changing our communications, our relationships, and even our brains with a researcher who has been studying the psychological aspects of the communication revolution.
- Investigate the Pantheon in Rome with an art historian and architect who will show how imperial ambition, daring structural innovation, disastrous construction setbacks, radical changes in plan, and even murder helped to shape one of the ancient world’s greatest buildings.
In addition to stimulating classes and discussions, you'll have time to hike, swim, visit Middlebury, or just sit on the porch and enjoy the view. Meals are taken together in the Bread Loaf dining room, and menus feature fresh, local ingredients.
Alumni College is open to parents and friends of the College, as well as alumni. Explore the website or download the brochure for more information.
Alumni College Schedule
- Check-in will begin at 10 a.m. on Thursday, August 30. For your convenience, we are offering housing at Bread Loaf on Wednesday night. Dinner will not be provided on Wednesday, but breakfast will be served on Thursday morning for those who choose the Wednesday night option.
- Lunch on Thursday will be served at noon.
- The first class begins at 1:30 p.m.
- The last class will end at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, September 2.
