Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

In The Narrow Edge, winner of the 2016 Academies of Science Best Book Award, and the Rachel Carson Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists, Deborah Cramer accompanies small sandpipers along their extraordinary migration from the tip of South America up into their Arctic nesting grounds, exploring how their lives are intertwined with ours.

In The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux, Professor Cathy N. Davidson argues that the American university is stuck in the past—and shows how we can revolutionize it to prepare students for our age of constant change. Our current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925, when the nation’s new universities created grades and departments, majors and minors, graduate and professional schools in an attempt to prepare young people for a world transformed by the telegraph and the Model T.

Have you considered applying to graduate school in the UK? Join Dean Lisa Gates for a discussion of how to apply for a British scholarship and what makes an ideal candidate. The deadline for the British nomination application is April 6, 2018. Detailed information is available at go.middlebury.edu/fellowships.

For Faculty

Presenter: Prof. Tara Affolter, Assistant Professor of Education Studies, Middlebury College
Monday, January 15, CTLR, 11:00-12:15, followed by lunch
Register online at http://sites.middlebury.edu/ctlrjan2018/portfolio/tara-affolter/

Join us on Tuesday, March 20th from 12:15-1:30pm for our next Behind the Scenes presentation.

Middlebury’s strategic framework identifies digital fluency and critical engagement as one of our key strategic directions. In this interactive hands-on session, Mike Roy (Dean of the Library) and Amy Collier (Associate Provost for Digital Learning) explore various facets of critical digital fluency, why it matters, and what we might do within and beyond the curriculum to develop our own and our students’ fluencies.

Lunch served. Please RSVP at the URL below.

August 22 & 23, 2017; Mountain Top Inn & Resort, Chittenden, VT

August 22 & 23, 2017; Mountain Top Inn & Resort, Chittenden, VT

Please join us to hear from Rick Jones, director/founder of Jones Architecture (http://www.jonesarch.com/) who will present on his work in the planning and execution of learning space renovations at Dartmouth, MIT, Northeastern and Norwich University. His presentation will reflect on current and future trends in library programming, research spaces and collaborative learning environments. Please RSVP for lunch.