Provost's Office

Reaccreditation and the Comprehensive Evaluation 2019
All educational institutions that are accredited go through a process to receive that accreditation. Every ten years this process includes a comprehensive evaluation. Middlebury’s comprehensive evaluation is this year culminating in a visit by a review team in November. Faculty, Staff and Students are invited to attend this information session to find out about the accreditation process, the self-study, and how you can be involved.

Hosted by Jeff Cason, Provost, and LeRoy Graham, Associate Provost for Planning

Chemical Weapons use in Syria confronted the international community with a difficult challenge. The US and its allies were reluctant to intervene in another Middle East conflict and afraid that a sudden collapse of the Assad regime would enable jihadist groups to seize control of Syria. At the same time, outside powers did not want to allow a longstanding norm against CW use to erode through repeated violations. Eventually, the US – sometimes working with France and the UK – adopted a strategy of coercion.

Sarah Bidgood, Senior Research Associate and Project Manager, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies, will lecture on “Terror in a handful of dust”: Exploring the State-Level Pursuit of Radiological Weapons.

The Fund for Innovation will be hosting drop in hours! Have questions about the FFI? Want to learn more about the FFI? Need to workshop your FFI proposal? Come to our Drop-In Hours to learn more about the FFI before the application deadline on February 28.

The Fund for Innovation will be hosting drop in hours! Have questions about the FFI? Want to learn more about the FFI? Need to workshop your FFI proposal? Come to our Drop-In Hours to learn more about the FFI before the application deadline on February 28.

The Fund for Innovation will be hosting drop in hours! Have questions about the FFI? Want to learn more about the FFI? Need to workshop your FFI proposal? Come to our Drop-In Hours to learn more about the FFI before the application deadline on October 4.

Questions? Email us at FundForInnovation@middlebury.edu

The Fund for Innovation will be hosting drop in hours! Have questions about the FFI? Want to learn more about the FFI? Need to workshop your FFI proposal? Come to our Drop-In Hours to learn more about the FFI before the application deadline on October 4.

Questions? Email us at FundForInnovation@middlebury.edu

Middlebury is currently undergoing a comprehensive evaluation for Reaccreditation by the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE). The evaluation is focused on nine standards defined by NECHE. The Reaccreditation steering committee compiled a Self-Study to respond to the standards and forms the basis for the visit. The review team will be hosting an open meeting for all Staff. All staff are encouraged to attend at this time. Open Faculty and Student meetings are held at other times.

Michael Wood, long time Bread Loaf faculty member and Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton, will discuss what we may hear when we listen closely to the work of Langston Hughes and Toni Morrison, paying special attention perhaps to what they don’t say. It will also consider the effect of listening with them, tuning in to some of the unforgettable jazz that gave a title to a Morrison novel, and that was never far away from any of Hughes’ poems.

Unlike in countries such as the United States and Britain, Germany had no process for soldiers to legally express conscientious objection to military service in WWI. This has led historians to conclude that such dissent in Germany was very limited in comparison, with the isolated cases of Germans who did express such opposition being relegated to the purview of physicians and psychiatric institutions.