Faculty, Middlebury Institute, Staff, Students
| by Laurie L Patton, Jeff Cason, and David Provost
We write with some updates on our budget process to emphasize some key points we discussed in yesterday’s Town Hall meeting with staff and faculty.
| by Jeff Cason and Sujata Moorti
We write with a follow-up to the College’s announcement on Monday that we plan to welcome students back to campus in Vermont this coming fall. We know that there is a great deal of uncertainty about how the fall will look, given the public health situation, but we know this initial decision will help move us forward in our planning for the upcoming semester.
Faculty, Fall 2020, Staff, Students
| by Laurie L Patton
I write to share the much-anticipated news of our decision to move forward with reopening for the fall semester. While this fall will look much different than at any time in our history, I am grateful that we will be able to come together again in a way that upholds educational opportunity while maximizing the health and safety of the entire Middlebury community.
| by Baishakhi Taylor and Derek Doucet
We are writing to remind you about current guidance with respect to travel to Vermont, as well as a recent resolution issued by the Town of Middlebury regarding face coverings.
| by Mark Peluso and Laurie L Patton
Will college students return to Middlebury in the fall? If so, how will we ensure their safety and the safety of the wider Middlebury community? These are the questions that have driven us at the College since we sent the great majority of students home last spring and effectively evacuated the campus.
| by Laurie L Patton
Today, Director of Health Services Mark Peluso and I published a column in the Addison County Independent with information and context on our planning and precautions around COVID-19. The column is part of our continuing dialog with all stakeholders in our work to manage the effects of the novel coronavirus, and responds to questions we’ve received from town residents. Of course, the content is relevant to us all.
| by Laurie L Patton
Once again, we are bearing witness to unconscionable acts of violence, rooted in racism, directed at Black people in the United States.
Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Sean Reed, George Floyd, and countless other Black people have been murdered. For their family, friends, and the Black community, here and around the world, grief and loss have been exacerbated by a literal witness to their death in media—something none of us needs or wants to see, but also knowing that without it, once again, justice would not be rendered.
And still, justice has not been rendered.
| by Baishakhi Taylor
We write to make you aware that during the next few weeks various students from the College will retrieve their belongings from campus while others will move.
| by Derek Doucet
I hope this finds you well and that you are enjoying a well-deserved break from your academic responsibilities and commitments.
