Personalized teaching and mentoring relationships between faculty and students are at the heart of a Middlebury education. To ensure small classes, excellent advising, and meaningful mentoring, the College intends to add 25 new faculty positions, create professorships to honor exceptional faculty achievement, provide additional funds for curriculum development, and support collaborative research by professors and students. Here are some selected funding opportunities to support the teaching and mentoring goals of the College:
Annual Professorships and Fellowships
» Undergraduate
Annual Faculty Fellowship, $75,000
Supports salary and benefits for non-tenured faculty
» Language Schools
» Bread Loaf School of English
Annual Teaching Fellowship, $10,000
Endowed Professorships and Fellowships
» Undergraduate
College Professorship, $3,500,000
Supports salary and benefits as well as research and teaching stipends for the most senior faculty
Professorship, $2,500,000
Supports salary and benefits as well as research and teaching stipends
Faculty Fellowship, $1,500,000
Supports salary and benefits for non-tenured faculty
Distinguished Visiting Scholar-in-Residence, $1,000,000
» Language Schools
Dean of Language Schools and Schools Abroad, $2,500,000
Individual Language School Directorship, $500,000
Language Schools Teaching Fellowship, $200,000
» Bread Loaf School of English
Directorship (Vermont), $2,500,000
Teaching Fellowship, $200,000
» Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
Directorship, $300,000
Teaching Fellowship, $150,000
Undergraduate Faculty Development and Research (Endowment Minimum $100,000)
Faculty Professional Development Funds
Supports research needs including travel and supplies
Faculty Research Assistant Funds
Supports student assistants working short term with faculty on their scholarship or course development
Faculty Start-Up Funds
Supports research equipment and other needs for new faculty
Undergraduate Student Support and Mentoring (Endowment Minimum $50,000)
First Year Seminar Fund
Supports first year seminar program
Scholarly Publication Funds
Supports production costs for students
Senior Work Funds
Supports student travel and research related expenses
Undergraduate Collaborative Research Funds
Supports academic year or summer research assistants
Departments and Programs (Endowment Minimum $50,000)
Individual Department and Program Funds
Supports curriculum and programming within the departments.
Specific examples available upon request