Connection spaces

  • Knots ‘n Thoughts: Meets every Thursday from 3:00PM-5:00PM in 123 Classic Battell South— dogs, crafts, games, lite snacks. 
     
  • Student Success Drop-in Hours ONE-STOP-SUPPORT with a CARE Manager, Class Dean  and/or CTLR — Regardless of your class year, all are welcome.   Have a “quick question”, need help planning your semester, adjusting your routine, or finding a tutor, life affecting your academics? We are here to help you figure it out. Drop by for a chat in a warm cozy environment.
     
    • Mondays 2:00PM - 4:00PM in 153 Allen Hall & CTLR colleague Jenny Orten
    • Thursdays 10:00AM - 12:00PM in 123 Classic Battell South & CTLR colleague Jennifer Bates 
       
  • Upcoming Events
     
    • Campus Trick-orTreat 10/31/25 2-4:30pm Stop by for some Candy/Dogs/Fun!!!
    • Special Knots ‘n Thoughts 11/13/25 3-5pm Cat nip toy making workshop with Counseling, Nick Parrish for Addison County Humane Society. 
       
  • Plants for adoption (including cacti) Our CARE office offers these to you, come - they are free and available for pick up anytime the office is open.  

Upcoming Events

For more events, please visit MiddPresence.

  • Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation

    Join us for 15 minutes of silent meditation every weekday morning, led by various staff, faculty, and students.  No registration required.  Drop in any day that works for you!

    McCullough Crest Room

    Closed to the Public

  • Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation

    Join us for 15 minutes of silent meditation every weekday morning, led by various staff, faculty, and students.  No registration required.  Drop in any day that works for you!

    McCullough Crest Room

    Closed to the Public

  • Critical Incident Analysis for Reflective and Impactful Pedagogies (Part I)

    Our teaching doesn’t always go as planned. Join this two-part session for faculty and staff on using Critical Incident Analysis as an approach to unexpected events in teaching.

    Facilitated by Netta Avineri (Conflict Transformation).

    Open to all staff and faculty. Register here.

    McCardell Bicentennial Hall 169

  • Therapy Dog Hour

    Come visit with Milo and friends for some dog snuggles or a quick pet, and share stories and pictures of your pets at home. You can find us outside Davis Library when weather is nice, otherwise you will find us across from the info desk. 

    Davis Family Library

  • Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation

    Join us for 15 minutes of silent meditation every weekday morning, led by various staff, faculty, and students.  No registration required.  Drop in any day that works for you!

    McCullough Crest Room

    Closed to the Public

  • Critical Incident Analysis for Reflective and Impactful Pedagogies (Part I)

    Our teaching doesn’t always go as planned. Join this two-part session for faculty and staff on using Critical Incident Analysis as an approach to unexpected events in teaching.

    Facilitated by Netta Avineri (Conflict Transformation).

    Open to all staff and faculty. Register here.

    McCardell Bicentennial Hall 169

  • The SlowDown

    Come slow down with beads, collaging, watercolors, grown-up coloring books and more. Homemade hot chai and cookies too! 

    McCullough Crest Room

    Closed to the Public

  • Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation

    Join us for 15 minutes of silent meditation every weekday morning, led by various staff, faculty, and students.  No registration required.  Drop in any day that works for you!

    McCullough Crest Room

    Closed to the Public

  • Winter Term Workshop: Peer Support Skills Training (psst...)

    Ever felt stumped about how to help a friend going through a hard time? Interested in working in a helping field in the future? Register for this training all about common mental health challenges and how to best support friends who are going through a hard time. Participants will leave with more confidence to express care and concern for friends, bring up worries and help friends to get help! Participants will meet for 1 hour for 4 weeks and receive a certificate to celebrate your learning. 

    Health and Wellness Education Conference Room

  • Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation

    Join us for 15 minutes of silent meditation every weekday morning, led by various staff, faculty, and students.  No registration required.  Drop in any day that works for you!

    McCullough Crest Room

    Closed to the Public

  • Gather: Radically Inclusive Christian Community

    For the Christian, Christian-curious, and Christian-conflicted. We’ll share appetizers and mocktails over lightly-guided scripture readings, discussion and prayers.  Hosted by Prof. Mary Jane Simpson, msimpson@midd. 

    Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life (Hathaway House)

    Closed to the Public

  • Shape Note Singing

    Described as spiritual, joyful, powerful, and raucous, Shape Note (or Sacred Harp) singing is a traditional American style of four-part, a capella, community singing popular in the United States before the Civil War. This style still thrives across the US and in the UK, with strongholds in the American South and New England. It is called Shape Note because the notes of the scale are indicated by distinctive shapes and names.

    McCullough - Mitchell Green Lounge

    Open to the Public

  • Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation

    Join us for 15 minutes of silent meditation every weekday morning, led by various staff, faculty, and students.  No registration required.  Drop in any day that works for you!

    McCullough Crest Room

    Closed to the Public

  • Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation

    Join us for 15 minutes of silent meditation every weekday morning, led by various staff, faculty, and students.  No registration required.  Drop in any day that works for you!

    McCullough Crest Room

    Closed to the Public

  • The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI

    Higher education stands at a crossroads. Economic, cultural, and technological forces are encouraging and permitting students to cheat in new and more pervasive ways. Generative AI has rendered current assessment regimes obsolete and called traditional pedagogical strategies into question across disciplines. How then, is an instructor to respond in the face of overwhelming change?

    McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216

  • Therapy Dog Hour

    Come visit with Milo and friends for some dog snuggles or a quick pet, and share stories and pictures of your pets at home. You can find us outside Davis Library when weather is nice, otherwise you will find us across from the info desk. 

    Davis Family Library

  • Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation

    Join us for 15 minutes of silent meditation every weekday morning, led by various staff, faculty, and students.  No registration required.  Drop in any day that works for you!

    McCullough Crest Room

    Closed to the Public

  • The SlowDown

    Come slow down with beads, collaging, watercolors, grown-up coloring books and more. Homemade hot chai and cookies too! 

    McCullough Crest Room

    Closed to the Public

  • Narcan Training with Turning Point Center of Addison County and PEAR

    go/NarcanTraining/ to sign up! Meet staff from Turning Point Center of Addison County, Middlebury’s local peer-based recovery services center, and members of PEAR, Middlebury College’s trained peer health educator group Peers Educating for Affirming Relationships. Through this Narcan training participants will understand the context of the bio-psycho-social elements of opioids, overdose reversals, and trends in substance misuse.

    Health and Wellness Education Conference Room

  • Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation

    Join us for 15 minutes of silent meditation every weekday morning, led by various staff, faculty, and students.  No registration required.  Drop in any day that works for you!

    McCullough Crest Room

    Closed to the Public

  • Winter Term Workshop: Peer Support Skills Training (psst...)

    Ever felt stumped about how to help a friend going through a hard time? Interested in working in a helping field in the future? Register for this training all about common mental health challenges and how to best support friends who are going through a hard time. Participants will leave with more confidence to express care and concern for friends, bring up worries and help friends to get help! Participants will meet for 1 hour for 4 weeks and receive a certificate to celebrate your learning. 

    Health and Wellness Education Conference Room

  • Decolonizing Substance Abuse, Addiction and Recovery

    Join Len Pierre, who is Coast Salish from Katzie (kate-zee) First Nation and a professor, social activist, and traditional knowledge keeper, for a workshop to explore the link between colonialism, Indigenous health, and social inequities with a focus on the toxic drug crisis and its impact on Indigenous communities today. Participants will discuss strategies to address stigmas associated with substance use, examine Indigenous perspectives on harm reduction, and learn.

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

  • Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation

    Join us for 15 minutes of silent meditation every weekday morning, led by various staff, faculty, and students.  No registration required.  Drop in any day that works for you!

    McCullough Crest Room

    Closed to the Public

  • Gather: Radically Inclusive Christian Community

    For the Christian, Christian-curious, and Christian-conflicted. We’ll share appetizers and mocktails over lightly-guided scripture readings, discussion and prayers.  Hosted by Prof. Mary Jane Simpson, msimpson@midd. 

    Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life (Hathaway House)

    Closed to the Public

  • Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation

    Join us for 15 minutes of silent meditation every weekday morning, led by various staff, faculty, and students.  No registration required.  Drop in any day that works for you!

    McCullough Crest Room

    Closed to the Public

  • Therapy Dog Hour

    Come visit with Milo and friends for some dog snuggles or a quick pet, and share stories and pictures of your pets at home. You can find us outside Davis Library when weather is nice, otherwise you will find us across from the info desk. 

    Davis Family Library

  • A Guide to Study Abroad Scholarships for Low-Income Students and Students of Color

    Hello! My name is Emma Wilson and I am a recipient of the 2025 Gilman International Scholarship. Please join me on January 20th from 4:30-5:30 at the AFC for a presentation on study abroad scholarships for low-income students and students of color who are interested in studying abroad. There will be a slide show presentation, as well as a Q&A with representatives from the SFS and International Programs offices present. If you are curious about abroad websites, programs, and Middlebury’s policies, please come! 

    Anderson Freeman Resource Center

  • Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation

    Join us for 15 minutes of silent meditation every weekday morning, led by various staff, faculty, and students.  No registration required.  Drop in any day that works for you!

    McCullough Crest Room

    Closed to the Public

  • The SlowDown

    Come slow down with beads, collaging, watercolors, grown-up coloring books and more. Homemade hot chai and cookies too! 

    McCullough Crest Room

    Closed to the Public

  • Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation

    Join us for 15 minutes of silent meditation every weekday morning, led by various staff, faculty, and students.  No registration required.  Drop in any day that works for you!

    McCullough Crest Room

    Closed to the Public

  • Winter Term Workshop: Peer Support Skills Training (psst...)

    Ever felt stumped about how to help a friend going through a hard time? Interested in working in a helping field in the future? Register for this training all about common mental health challenges and how to best support friends who are going through a hard time. Participants will leave with more confidence to express care and concern for friends, bring up worries and help friends to get help! Participants will meet for 1 hour for 4 weeks and receive a certificate to celebrate your learning. 

    Health and Wellness Education Conference Room

  • Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation

    Join us for 15 minutes of silent meditation every weekday morning, led by various staff, faculty, and students.  No registration required.  Drop in any day that works for you!

    McCullough Crest Room

    Closed to the Public

  • Green Dot Bystander Training

    This interactive training builds student skills to be well-equipped to proactively and reactively prevent interpersonal violence and to inspire continued engagement with the Green Dot strategy clubs, student groups, and across campus. This knowledge is vitally important to sustaining a culture that impedes interpersonal violence on campus. Sign up at go/greendotBT and receive exclusive Green Dot swag for attending.

    Redfield Proctor Room

  • Gather: Radically Inclusive Christian Community

    For the Christian, Christian-curious, and Christian-conflicted. We’ll share appetizers and mocktails over lightly-guided scripture readings, discussion and prayers.  Hosted by Prof. Mary Jane Simpson, msimpson@midd. 

    Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life (Hathaway House)

    Closed to the Public

  • Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation

    Join us for 15 minutes of silent meditation every weekday morning, led by various staff, faculty, and students.  No registration required.  Drop in any day that works for you!

    McCullough Crest Room

    Closed to the Public

  • Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation

    Join us for 15 minutes of silent meditation every weekday morning, led by various staff, faculty, and students.  No registration required.  Drop in any day that works for you!

    McCullough Crest Room

    Closed to the Public

  • Therapy Dog Hour

    Come visit with Milo and friends for some dog snuggles or a quick pet, and share stories and pictures of your pets at home. You can find us outside Davis Library when weather is nice, otherwise you will find us across from the info desk. 

    Davis Family Library

  • Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation

    Join us for 15 minutes of silent meditation every weekday morning, led by various staff, faculty, and students.  No registration required.  Drop in any day that works for you!

    McCullough Crest Room

    Closed to the Public

  • The SlowDown

    Come slow down with beads, collaging, watercolors, grown-up coloring books and more. Homemade hot chai and cookies too! 

    McCullough Crest Room

    Closed to the Public

  • Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation

    Join us for 15 minutes of silent meditation every weekday morning, led by various staff, faculty, and students.  No registration required.  Drop in any day that works for you!

    McCullough Crest Room

    Closed to the Public

  • Winter Term Workshop: Peer Support Skills Training (psst...)

    Ever felt stumped about how to help a friend going through a hard time? Interested in working in a helping field in the future? Register for this training all about common mental health challenges and how to best support friends who are going through a hard time. Participants will leave with more confidence to express care and concern for friends, bring up worries and help friends to get help! Participants will meet for 1 hour for 4 weeks and receive a certificate to celebrate your learning. 

    Health and Wellness Education Conference Room

  • Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation

    Join us for 15 minutes of silent meditation every weekday morning, led by various staff, faculty, and students.  No registration required.  Drop in any day that works for you!

    McCullough Crest Room

    Closed to the Public