Academic Centers
Whether it’s the robust offerings from the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research, or the Axinn Center for Humanities, or our state-of-the-art libraries, Middlebury provides access to academic organizations that enhance the undergraduate learning experience.
Axinn Center for the Humanities
The Center for Humanities draws on a range of Middlebury’s resources both on and off campus to support the vital areas of humanistic inquiry and exploration. Our programs and initiatives encourage students and faculty to reach across disciplinary boundaries to pursue innovative research projects in medical humanities, oral histories, digital humanities, and many other fields.
Center for Careers and Internships
Professional advisors at the Center for Careers and Internships can help you select a major, find a summer internship, evaluate career possibilities, apply to graduate school, or look for a job. While each advisor focuses on specific industries or fields, all of our advisors are well equipped to get you started in your own search process.
Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity
The Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity serves the Middlebury College community through its support for pedagogy and research that employs interdisciplinary approaches toward the understanding of formations of race and ethnicity. It encourages scholarship that considers race and ethnicity as intersecting with class, gender, sexuality, religion, age, disability, language, communication, migration, and the environment in human relations. The center and its affiliates are committed to broad discussions of race and ethnicity in local, regional, national, transnational, and global contexts.
Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research (CTLR)
With nearly half of all Middlebury students utilizing its services, the CTLR is a hub of educational inquiry and academic growth in writing, oral presentations, quantitative reasoning, and time management, as well as peer mentoring, and course-content tutoring. Students can also get information and advice about undergraduate research opportunities for several nationally competitive fellowships and scholarships, such as Fulbright, Watson, Rhodes, and Truman. The CTLR is located on the main floor of the Davis Family Library.
Community Engagement
The Center for Community Engagement prepares students for lives of meaning and impact through service, scholarship, and citizenship. Our programs work to strengthen communities and contribute to the public good.
Digital Learning and Inquiry
Digital Learning and Inquiry (DLINQ) explores and creates digital practices and spaces that advance the transformative potential of education in students’ lives, and advances digital fluency and critical engagement with the digital at Middlebury. We are a cross-institutional group of instructional designers, digital scholars, and teaching and learning professionals who offer consultations and workshops to faculty, staff, and students at Middlebury.
Disability Resource Center (DRC)
In recent years, the DRC has helped nearly 15 percent of the student body at Middlebury. We provide confidential accommodations for students who have disabilities that impact learning, vision, hearing, mobility, or physical or psychological health. Such accommodations can include extended time on exams, distraction-reduced exam spaces, screen-reading software and audiobooks, note takers, interpreting services, readers, scribes, and more. We also provide housing and dining accommodations when needed. Students are highly encouraged to contact the DRC to find out more about accommodations.
Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest
Environmental stewardship is an integral part of the Middlebury experience. It’s visible in the habits of individuals, the actions of the Environmental Coalition—a robust consortium of student organizations whose missions relate to sustainability and environmental justice—and in overall institutional initiatives:
- Carbon neutrality, achieved in 2016
- Sustainable Solutions Lab
- The Knoll, the College organic garden
- Our Biomass system
- Integration of sustainability at Middlebury Schools Abroad
- LEED Platinum Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest
International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS)
ISSS provides advising, programs, and support to our international students, staff, and faculty. Middlebury enrolls more than 250 international undergraduates from more than 75 countries. ISSS manages the College’s involvement in the U.S. government’s Student and Exchange Visitor System (SEVIS), as well as institutional compliance with immigration regulations. They coordinate Early Arrival, the preorientation program, for international students and the Friends of International Students (FIS) host program. ISSS also serves as a place of support for students who have international roots by having lived abroad or having immigrated to the U.S.
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs (RCGA)
RCGA is Middlebury College’s flagship site for the production and dissemination of knowledge about international and global issues. Through a diverse set of programs, the center reaches across boundaries of language, culture, and geography to engage students’ capacities for rigorous analysis and independent thought in a rapidly changing world.