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Faculty, Fall 2020, Language Schools, Middlebury Institute, Spring 2021, Staff, Students
| by Laurie L Patton, Jeff Cason, and David Provost
This is a comprehensive letter with many details—we want you to have all of this information at once so you know what the remainder of the academic year will look like.
Faculty, Fall 2020, Staff, Students
| by Laurie L Patton
I am writing with some updates and information about the fall semester and Phase 2 of reopening the Vermont campus.
Faculty, Fall 2020, Staff, Students
| by Laurie L Patton, Mark Peluso, and Derek Doucet
We write today to provide instructions as we prepare to transition to Phase 2 of reopening the Vermont campus later this week.
Faculty, Fall 2020, Staff, Students
| by Laurie L Patton
Middlebury College partnered with the Town of Middlebury, Porter Medical Center, and the Addison Central School District to produce a special supplement in the Addison Independent, published today (Friday, September 11) and distributed to all students on campus.
| by Laurie L Patton
As you are probably aware, today is the day that 325 of our student leaders return to campus. We are excited to have our students back on campus, even as the Middlebury world they are returning to has radically changed and the semester they are about to embark on will be unlike any other semester in Middlebury’s history.
| by Laurie L Patton
There is no perfect solution to the Covid-19 reopening dilemma. In our view, we will get farther if we try not to polarize on this topic. There is an ethics of closing and an ethics of reopening. At Middlebury we know residential education reduces inequities for students and supports their mental health. The question for us was, could we create the safest possible environment to do so. We need to be deeply conservative in re-opening.
Fall 2020, Faculty, Staff, Students
| by Laurie L Patton
As I know you are aware, news reports of the past few days and weeks have underscored the significant challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, as cases continue to climb at a rapid pace throughout the United States, affecting people of all ages. While these spikes are particularly prevalent in populous states where restrictions were less stringent or eased more quickly than in Vermont, they are not limited to those areas. As a global community, Middlebury is not immune to these challenges, even on our rural campus in Vermont.
Faculty, Fall 2020, Staff, Students
| by Laurie L Patton
As I know you are aware, news reports of the past few days and weeks have underscored the significant challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, as cases continue to climb at a rapid pace throughout the United States, affecting people of all ages. While these spikes are particularly prevalent in populous states where restrictions were less stringent or eased more quickly than in Vermont, they are not limited to those areas. As a global community, Middlebury is not immune to these challenges, even on our rural campus in Vermont.
| by Erin Quinn and Laurie L Patton
The NESCAC presidents released a joint statement earlier today announcing that NESCAC competition for 2020 fall sports will be canceled due to ongoing concerns around COVID-19. As a result, there will be no scheduled NESCAC competitions or championships. Individual institutions do, however, have the discretion to organize practices and to consider alternate competitions, dependent on state and local health guidelines.
Faculty, Fall 2020, Staff, Students
| by Laurie L Patton
As I am sure you are aware, Gov. Phil Scott has released new state of Vermont guidelines for reopening colleges and universities, and he held a press conference today to further explain these rules and regulations.
