Provost's Office

Fund for Innovation Festival 8:30 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Educational Innovation Mini Panel - Innovation is one of the most commonly used buzzwords today. But what is innovation, and what does it mean to be innovative? Come listen to and question our panelists as they grapple with these questions and recount their own experiences with innovation.

By David J. Helfand, Columbia University & former president, Quest University Canada The design of Quest University Canada began with a question: How do we create the most effective and engaging education for students who will graduate into a rapidly changing, globalized world? Our answer was to center education around the formulation of good questions and the processes by which one attempts to address them. This leads naturally to having tutors who teach, rather than professors who profess, and to seminar rooms rather than lecture halls.

Applying to the Fund for Innovation? Drop in to workshop your application with Presidential Fellows in Innovation Naila Jahan ‘15 and Michael Dola ‘15, who will be going over app basics as well as strengths and weaknesses, and will be available to provide feedback on your draft proposal. They will be available from 4:00-5:30pm, feel free to stop by as your schedule allows. Contact: Naila Jahan at njahan@middlebury.edu or Michael Dola at mdola@middlebury.edu

You are invited to one of two open meetings for an update on Envisioning Middlebury, our institution-wide strategic planning process. We will discuss our progress since we began in the spring of 2016, share emerging themes, and outline the remainder of the process.

If you cannot attend in person, the meetings will be livestreamed.

Closed to the Public.

You are invited to one of two open meetings for an update on Envisioning Middlebury, our institution-wide strategic planning process. We will discuss our progress since we began in the spring of 2016, share emerging themes, and outline the remainder of the process.

If you cannot attend in person, the meetings will be livestreamed.

Closed to the Public.

You are invited to one of two open meetings for an update on Envisioning Middlebury, our institution-wide strategic planning process. We will discuss our progress since we began in the spring of 2016, share emerging themes, and outline the remainder of the process.

If you cannot attend in person, the meetings will be livestreamed.

Envisioning Middlebury Open Meeting: An update on where we are with the institution-wide strategic planning process. So many of you contributed to this process, we wanted to take time before shifting into Summer mode to let you know where things stand.

Envisioning Middlebury is a year long process to determine Middlebury’s priorities - Students are invited to share their thoughts about Middlebury’s future over dinner with members of the Envisioning Middlebury Advisory Committee. This dinner is being organized by Rubi Saavedra Andres, Sam Cartwright, Michelle Kim, and Tabitha Mueller.

Gardner Campbell, associate professor of English and special assistant to the provost at Virginia Commonwealth University, will discuss how the paradigm of “romantic computing”—the experience of wonders, uncanny encounters, strangeness, and adventure through technology—can inspire higher education.

Livestream from Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. 

The Middlebury Institute’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies is at the forefront of using open source information and technical tools to support nonproliferation and disarmament verification. Satellite imagery, 3-dimensional modeling, geospatial data, new media, and virtual reality applications are key strengths in this work. Such tools extend the ability of non-governmental organizations to identify and determine the capabilities of proliferation-related activities, and track illicit transfers of technology.