20 Items

  1. Students

    Support for Remote Learning

    | by Jeff Cason and Sujata Moorti

    As we enter the second week of our extended spring break, we hope that this message finds you healthy and safe. We, along with your faculty, have been preparing for remote learning, which will begin next Monday, the 30th. This brief message provides you with important information regarding the resumption of classes.

  2. Faculty

    Faculty Update: Logistics for Spring Teaching

    | by Jeff Cason and Sujata Moorti

    It feels like we have been managing the issues connected to the COVID-19 pandemic for months, and to some degree we have been. But our challenges accelerated 13 days ago when we decided to start spring break early and make plans to teach remotely. We know all of you have been scrambling to figure out how to teach remotely. Thank you for these efforts, which have required you to completely rethink how you have done your job for a year, or how you have done it for years or decades. This has been challenging for all of us.

  3. Faculty

    Course Schedule Starting March 30 (For Faculty)

    | by Suzanne Gurland, Jeff Cason, and Sujata Moorti

    Dear Faculty Colleagues, as promised, we are writing with specific information regarding the scheduling of classes once they resume on March 30. Before stating the resolution of our deliberations, we would like to explain the relevant context. We have decided on our way forward after significant consultation, with department chairs and program directors and with the academic continuity group. We recognize that there is no ideal solution to our upcoming schedule, but we have tried to come to the best available solution.

  4. Faculty

    Academics Going Forward

    | by Jeff Cason and Sujata Moorti

    As we step into this unprecedented territory of remote teaching, we wanted to share with you a number of decisions we have made regarding academic work for our students for the remainder of the semester.

  5. Students

    Middlebury’s Academic Program

    | by Jeff Cason and Sujata Moorti

    We recognize that the last week has been an extraordinary one, one in which we have all had to dramatically change the way we think about our communities and our connections to one another. We hope that as most of you have left campus, your journeys went as smoothly as possible, given the circumstances. And we hope that you have at least begun to settle into your new, and unanticipated, living arrangements.

  6. Faculty

    Faculty Update: Spring Break, Schools Abroad, Committees

    | by Jeff Cason and Sujata Moorti

    Once again, we want to reiterate our appreciation for your willingness to pivot so quickly to new ways of teaching following spring break. We know that many faculty colleagues have been working overtime to reimagine their courses, and that this work will continue in the coming weeks. What we are dealing with is unprecedented for us, and we just wanted to acknowledge, again, the scale of the task in front of us all.