Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

We invite all members of the Middlebury College community, guests, and members of the public as we celebrate the academic and creative endeavors of Middlebury students. Friday will feature oral presentations, poster presentations and displays throughout the day in McCardell Bicentennial Hall. Student presenters include all four classes at Middlebury and all fields of academic scholarship.

Join Christian Tanja from the Schwarzman Scholars Program to learn about this post-graduate fellowship to China. Open to international and US students, the language of instruction is English. The Schwarzman scholarship, inspired by the Rhodes scholarship, is a program designed to help future leaders meet the challenges of the 21st century and beyond by preparing them to better understand China’s culture, economy, governance, and motivations.

In this part of the Contemporary Teaching in the Liberal Arts Series, James Chase Sanchez argues that contemporary rhetoric of white supremacy is built around structures of preservation. Using ethnographic and autoethnographic research (along with film footage) from his hometown of Grand Saline, Sanchez pinpoints the ways communities preserve their white supremacy via tactics of identity-formation, storytelling, and silencing. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP by January 16.

  EVENT LOCATION: Davis Family Library 225 (CTLR)

Returning to the Classroom—A Lunch-Time Discussion

Join us for Mary Ellen Bertolini’s retirement reception.

Part of the Contemporary Teaching in the Liberal Arts J-Term Series, these workshops focused on Project Based Learning will be led by guest speakers, Kristin Boudreau and Rick Vaz from Worchester Polytech Institute. For more details and to register see the Faculty Development Calendar at go/ctlr.

  EVENT LOCATION: Davis Family Library 225 (CTLR)

Part of the Contemporary Teaching in the Liberal Arts J-Term Series, these workshops focused on Project Based Learning will be led by guest speakers, Kristin Boudreau and Rick Vaz from Worchester Polytech Institute. For more details and to register see the Faculty Development Calendar at go/ctlr.

  EVENT LOCATION: Davis Family Library 225 (CTLR)

Come to the awards ceremony for the Paul W. Ward ’25 Memorial Prize in writing for the Class of 2021. The prize recognizes those second-year students who the faculty judge to have produced outstanding essays in writing classes during their first year. Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research at 802.443.3131 or by email at ctlr@middlebury.edu.

Faculty and staff are invited to participate in this year’s Learning Institute, sponsored by the Center for Teaching, Learning & Research. The theme of the institute is “Lessons Learned and Future Plans: Teaching through a Pandemic.”

Learn about fellowships with late fall/winter deadlines: Beinecke, Goldwater, Hollings, PPIA, Rangel Summer Program, Truman, Udall and more. These include awards for graduate study, summer study, and undergraduate study in various fields. The session led by Dean Gates will provide a quick overview of fellowships and nomination process. Session will be recorded. See more information and a list of fellowships at http://go.middlebury.edu/fellowships. A Zoom link will be provided when you register.