Karen Guttentag joined Middlebury College deans’ staff in June 2001. She earned her B.A. at Carleton College (English) and her Ed.M. from Harvard University (Higher Education). Her professional areas of interest include personal and academic integrity education processes, undergraduate research, campus and community education around issues of race, gender, sexual orientation and alcohol.
Karen serves as the College's Judicial Affairs Officer, and in this role she oversees the administration of the Academic Judicial Board and the Community Judicial Board. She co-chairs the Administration Committee, which reviews student petitions for academic policy exceptions, and is chairing the 2008-09 Honor Code Review Committee. With the associate dean of undergraduate research, Karen co-directs Middlebury's Spring Student Symposium, and she serves as an adviser for a variety of internal and external grants, fellowships and scholarships. Karen is the Office of the Dean of College's liaison to the Office for Institutional Diversity, and plays a lead role in addressing campus sexual assault education and prevention efforts.
Karen's background in higher education includes positions at Bowdoin, Lafayette, Simmons, and Mount Ida College. She served in the Peace Corps in the Chadian village of Koubo-Adougoul, and spent two years in the non-profit arena strengthening federal food programs for disadvantaged children. Since moving to Vermont, Karen has adopted a spectacular dog, has learned to blow glass and grow tomatoes, has successfully hiked up and skied down several large hills, and serves as the least-talented member of one of Middlebury's intramural hockey teams ("The Staff Infection"). She chairs the the board of WomenSafe, which works to prevent sexual, physical, and emotional abuse against women in Addison County and their children.
Karen Guttentag
Associate Dean of the College
Meeker House 111
Phone: 802.443.2024
E-mail: kguttent@middlebury.edu