CARE Management

While you have your Class Deans to support you with your academic path, your CARE Management team (Connect Advocate Reflect Empower) is here to help you navigate the rest. Meet the team.

We provide non-clinical case management support to students on campus, during breaks and while they are on leave. What does this mean? We provide guidance and assistance when students are facing challenges beyond the classroom. 

What We Do

We support all students who may be having difficulty in navigating challenging situations beyond academics. We offer check-ins, problem solving, and referrals to other offices to support students in creating their independent goals and increasing their sense of thriving in the Middlebury College environment.

Using the CARE FORM

The responsibility to support and care for one another is a core component of the Middlebury College community.

What faculty see in the classroom can be fundamentally different from what a residence director sees in a residence hall, a coach sees during practice, a job supervisor sees at work, a Public Safety officer sees when doing rounds, or a trusted mentor hears from a concerned friend. The CARE Network allows us to take in all of this information and utilize it to support students.

One way we can do this is by sharing our concern if we notice someone struggling. The CARE Management form allows faculty, staff, and students to note challenges to a student’s success and well-being. See some examples of behaviors worth noting. 

Through CARE Management forms, the Student Affairs team can evaluate a situation and work collaboratively to develop an effective response. 

Faculty might use the CARE Network to complete certain administrative tasks:

• Incomplete requests
• Course alerts
• Administration Committee petitions

Students might use the CARE Network to do the following:

• Request a fifth course
• Extend a leave of absence
• Submit an Administration Committee petition
• Express concern for a friend through the CARE form

Contact Us

We collaborate regularly with campus partners and act as knowledgeable referral agents for a wide variety of college resources. While Care Managers frequently work with students experiencing challenging circumstances, we are also available for proactive success and support planning.



Reach out to middcares@middlebury.edu, call/text 802-443-3340, or stop by our office on the second floor of Stewart for additional information.

Land Acknowledgement: Middlebury College sits on land which has served as a site of meeting and exchange among indigenous peoples since time immemorial. The Western Abenaki are the traditional caretakers of these Vermont lands and waters, which they call Ndakinna, or “homeland.” We remember their connection to this region and the hardships they continue to endure. We give thanks for the opportunity to share in the bounty of this place and to protect it.