Strengthen Our Core
Middlebury’s core is the College, its students, faculty, and staff, and our residential liberal arts teaching and scholarly mission.
Initiative One: Our People
Our mission begins with our people—students, faculty, and staff on our Vermont campus. We must set long-term goals for our student-body size and associated student-faculty ratio while continuing to open our doors to extraordinary students, faculty, and staff from all backgrounds; investing in students and those who teach and support them; committing to a shared culture of excellence; and aligning our resources accordingly.
Initiative Two: Community and Connection
A Middlebury education is shaped by the experience of life on our campus and in Vermont. We will invest in the spaces, traditions, activities, and just plain fun that make college life vivid and memorable.
Initiative Three: Human Intelligence in the 21st Century
We must fashion a distinctive 21st-century liberal arts curriculum dedicated to strengthening the forms of human intelligence–across the arts, humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, and languages–crucial to living and working in a rapidly evolving and ever more cosmopolitan world: creative intelligence, entrepreneurial intelligence, civic intelligence, global intelligence, critical intelligence, and more.
Selected Stories
A challenging restoration project taught students hands-on and problem-solving skills.
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More than 250 students from all class years and academic disciplines presented their research and creative works at the annual Spring Symposium at Bicentennial Hall.
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