Middlebury College
Latin: Collegium Medioburiense Viridis Montis "Middlebury College in the Green Mountains"
Motto:	Scientia et Virtus "Knowledge and Virtue"
Established:	1800
Type:	Private coeducational
Endowment:	US $1 billion (as of January 2008)
President:	Ronald D. Liebowitz
Faculty:	approx. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. A motto (from the Italian word motto, meaning witticism sentence is a phrase meant to formally describe the general motivation or intention of a social group The date of establishment or date of founding of an Institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point A financial endowment is a Transfer of Money or Property donated to an Institution, usually with the stipulation that it be invested University president is the title of the highest ranking officer within a University, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as Ronald D Liebowitz (born 1957 is the current president of Middlebury College, and a professor of Geography. A faculty is a division within a University. The concept of a university with different faculties for different subjects dates back to Al-Azhar University, which had 270
Undergraduates:	2,406
Location:	Middlebury, Vermont, United States
Campus:	Rural, 350 acres (1. In some Educational systems undergraduate education is Post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelor's degree. Middlebury is a town in and the shire town ( County seat) of Addison County, Vermont, United States. Vermont ( is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Rural areas can be large and isolated (also referred to as "the country" and/or "the countryside over the course of time 4 km²) (main campus) 1,800 acres (7. 3 km²) (mountain campus)
Mascot:	Panther
Website:	www.middlebury.edu

Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in the rural town of Middlebury, Vermont, United States. The term mascot – defined as a term for any person animal or object thought to bring Luck – colloquially includes anything used to represent a group with a common A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Liberal arts colleges in the United States are institutions of Higher education in the United States. Middlebury is a town in and the shire town ( County seat) of Addison County, Vermont, United States. Vermont ( is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Drawing 2,350 undergraduates from all 50 United States and over 70 countries, Middlebury currently is ranked as the nation's fifth best liberal arts college by U.S. News and World Report. USNews & World Report is an influential weekly American Newsmagazine published in Washington D ^[1]

History

A sketch of "East College", Middlebury's first building, a simple wood-framed structure completed in 1798 and razed in 1867. Twilight Hall now sits adjacent to the site. Old Stone Row is pictured in the background. [2]

Founded as the Addison County Grammar School in 1797 before receiving its charter on November 1, 1800, the college has a long history of distinguished scholarship. In addition to its undergraduate program, the college offers graduate study in foreign languages and in literature and creative writing.

Its founding religious affiliation was Congregationalist. Congregational churches are Protestant Christian churches practicing Congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently Currently, however, it is officially Nonsectarian. Nonsectarian, in its most literal sense refers to a lack of Sectarianism.

Alexander Twilight, class of 1823, was the first black graduate of any college or university in the United States; he also became the first African American elected to public office, being elected to the Vermont House of Representatives in 1856. Alexander Lucius Twilight was born July 15, 1795 at Corinth in the U The Vermont House of Representatives is the Lower house of the Vermont General Assembly, the state legislature of the U In 1883, the trustees voted to accept women as students in the college, making Middlebury one of the first formerly all-male liberal arts colleges in New England to become a coeducational institution.

The national fraternity Kappa Delta Rho was founded in Painter Hall on May 17, 1905. Kappa Delta Rho ( ΚΔΡ) is an American College social fraternity, with 35 active chapters spread out over the United States primarily in the It was forced to coeducate in the early 1990's, due to a policy at the school against single-sex organizations. ^[2]

The German school, founded in 1915, began the Middlebury Language Schools. These Schools, which take over the campus during the summer, teach about 1,350 students Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The C. V. Starr-Middlebury Schools Abroad host students at twenty-one sites in Argentina, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Spain, and Uruguay.

Recent Developments

In May 2004, an anonymous benefactor made a $50 million donation to Middlebury. It was the largest cash gift the school has ever received. The donor asked only that Middlebury name its recently-built science building, Bicentennial Hall, after outgoing President John McCardell Jr. John Malcolm McCardell Jr is the president emeritus and a professor of history at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. In January 2008, Middlebury's endowment stood at approximately $1 billion. [3]

Old Chapel with the Green Mountains in the distance

In 2005, Middlebury signed an affiliation agreement with the Monterey Institute of International Studies, a graduate school in Monterey, California. The Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS pronounced 'Miss' an affiliate of Middlebury College, is a Graduate school in Monterey California A graduate school or ("grad school" is a school that awards advanced degrees such as doctoral degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned While the Monterey Institute will remain a separate institution, the affiliation saved Monterey from financial difficulties, and will allow Middlebury to offer additional programs in international studies and foreign languages.

On October 6, 2007, President Ronald D. Liebowitz announced that the college is launching a five-year campaign to raise $500 million. Liebowitz also said that during the planning phases $234 million has already been raised. The campaign, which the college is calling the Middlebury Initiative, will extend and expand the range of opportunities available to students.

In the spring of 2008, the Board of Trustees approved renovations to the Proctor Dining Hall and the McCullough Student Center's social space, mail room, and convenience store to be undertaken during the summer and the 2008-2009 academic year.

The academic year follows a 4-1-4 schedule of two four-course semesters plus a one-course "J-term" term in January.

Middlebury is part of the SAT optional movement for undergraduate admission. Liberal arts colleges in the United States are institutions of Higher education in the United States.

The Campus

Old Chapel, completed in 1836, served as Middlebury's primary academic building for a century. Today it houses seminar classrooms and administrative offices.

The 350-acre (1. 4 km²) main campus is located in the Champlain Valley between Vermont's Green Mountains to the east and New York's Adirondack Mountains to the west. The Champlain Valley is a region of the United States around Lake Champlain in Vermont and New York. Vermont ( is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The Green Mountains are a Mountain range in the US state of Vermont. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous The Adirondack Mountains are a Mountain range located in the northeastern part of New York, that runs through Clinton, Essex, Franklin The campus is situated on a hill to the west of the village of Middlebury, a traditional New England village centered around Otter Creek Falls. Middlebury is a town in and the shire town ( County seat) of Addison County, Vermont, United States. The nearby 1,800-acre (7. 3 km²) mountain campus hosts the college's Bread Loaf School of English and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference every summer. The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference called by The New Yorker, "the oldest and most prestigious writers' conference in the country" was founded in 1926 The Conference was founded on an idea first born of poet Robert Frost. Robert Lee Frost (March 26 1874 &ndash January 29 1963 was an American Poet.

Middlebury's campus is characterized by quads and open spaces, views of the Green Mountains and the Adirondacks, and historic granite, marble, and limestone buildings. Old Stone Row, consisting of the three oldest buildings on campus — Old Chapel, Painter Hall, and Starr Hall — is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP is the United States government's official list of districts sites buildings structures and objects deemed worthy of Painter Hall, constructed in 1815, is the oldest extant college building in Vermont. Emma Willard House, a National Historic Landmark, hosts the admissions office. Emma Willard House was a home of Emma Willard, an influential pioneer in the development of women's education in the United States A National Historic Landmark (NHL is a Building, site, Structure, Object, or District, that is officially recognized by the Of the campus, famous postmodern architect Robert Venturi said, "If anyone had told me that gray stone boxes set in lawns could be so beautiful, I would have said they were crazy. Robert Charles Venturi Jr (born June 25, 1925 in Philadelphia) is an award-winning American Architect and founding principal of the firm Venturi Middlebury looks like what everyone thinks an American campus should be but seldom is. "[4]

The spire of Mead Memorial Chapel, completed in 1916, rises on the highest elevation of the campus. Over the chapel's portal are carved the words from Psalm 95:4, "The Strength of the Hills is His Also. "

Since the mid-1990s, student housing has been grouped into five residential Commons: Atwater, Brainerd, Cook, Ross, and Wonnacott. Jeremiah Atwater (1773-1858 was notable as an educator minister and college president Ezra Brainerd ( December 17, 1844 – December 8, 1924) was president of Middlebury College from 1885 until 1908 All are named for illustrious college figures. The creation of the Commons, which remains controversial with the student body, accompanied an increase in the size of the student body and an ambitious building campaign. Recently completed building projects include the 220,000 sq ft McCardell Bicentennial Hall (1999), a 135,000 sq ft library (2004), two Atwater Commons Residence Halls (2004), and a new Atwater Dining Hall (2005). Hillcrest Hall, an Italianate-styled farmhouse constructed around 1874, has been renovated to provide a home for the environmental studies program according to LEED standards. In the course of the history of Classical architecture, an Italianate style of architecture was a distinct nineteenth-century phase in which Italian sixteenth-century The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ( LEED) Green Building Rating System developed by the U Starr Library, a Beaux-Arts edifice completed in 1900, now hosts the Donald Everett Axinn '51 Center for Literary and Cultural Studies at Starr Library after significant restoration of interior spaces and the addition of two wings for faculty offices, lecture halls, and a television production studio. Beaux Arts architecture denotes the academic classical Architectural style that was taught at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. [5]

The Rohatyn Center for International Affairs

Middlebury College is home to the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs,[6], founded by Felix Rohatyn '49, investment banker, former U.S. Ambassador to France, and founder of Rohatyn Associates. Felix George Rohatyn (born May 29, 1928 in Vienna Austria) is an American Investment banker known for his role in preventing the bankruptcy The United States has sent Ambassadors to France since the American Revolution. Located at the Robert A. Jones '59 House, the center combines Middlebury's noted strengths in cultural, political, and linguistic studies to offer a packed schedule of internationally focused symposia, lectures, and presentations. In addition, the center regularly publishes working papers by prominent international scholars and offers several grants for faculty and student research. A growing collection of online documentary and video archives preserves some of the events recently hosted by the Center.

Language study and schools abroad

General language study

During the regular academic year, Middlebury presently teaches Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek (Attic), Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The college provides students with extensive opportunities to speak their target language.

The general method of language study — and particularly summer language study — is properly characterized as "immersion," i. e. , extensive use of the target language both in and outside the classroom. The isolated, residential nature of the college allows budding speakers to study, eat, and live with fellow speakers and to minimize the use of English and other languages. Each language has a House associated with it, where speakers and teaching assistants lodge to create distinct linguistic communities. Students and faculty may attend lunch daily at "language tables;" during the meals, students and faculty speak only in their target language and are served food by fluent student workers.

Professors with primary appointments in other departments have been known to offer natural science and social science courses in foreign languages.

Summer language schools

Le Chateau, constructed in 1925, is the home to the College's French department, and serves as a residential hall for students in Atwater Commons.

Middlebury’s summer programs enable students to undergo the equivalent of a year of college-level language study in seven- or nine-week summer sessions. As of August 2007 there are summer programs in 9 languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish), and a 10th program in modern Hebrew is slated to open in summer 2008. ^[3] Six of Middlebury's summer schools — Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish — also offer graduate programs. These are completed during six-week summer sessions, with an option of combining the sessions with overseas study. The graduate degree most often conferred is the Master of Arts. Middlebury also offers a Doctor of Modern Languages degree.

All Language School students agree to abide by the Language Pledge, a formal commitment to speak, listen, read, and write the language of study as the only means of communication for the entire summer session. The Pledge helps students focus their energies on the acquisition of language skills and to internalize the patterns of communication and cultural perspective associated with the target language. Each language school is allocated specific residence halls, where students, teaching assistants, and professors live to further aid in the immersion. Students and faculty eat lunch and dinner at separate times during the day to maintain the exclusivity of the target languages.

Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy

Middlebury also offers summer language immersion programs in Arabic, Chinese, French, and Spanish to middle and high school students through the Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy. MMLA builds on the expertise of both Middlebury College and the Monterey Institute of International Studies and adapts the renowned Middlebury Language Schools immersion with a curriculum and activities developed specifically for students entering grades 7-12. The Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS pronounced 'Miss' an affiliate of Middlebury College, is a Graduate school in Monterey California

Environmental Studies and College Environmentalism

The new Atwater Dining Hall (2004) features a living roof

The Environmental Studies major at Middlebury was established in 1965, making it the first undergraduate major of its kind in the nation. Susan Johns (Paulsen) was the first graduate in 1969. The Program is an interdisciplinary, nondepartmental major that draws upon 52 faculty members from 26 departments.

Middlebury has a reputation as an environmentally conscious campus. Several student groups operate on campus and organize frequent trips to the state capitol and beyond. The highly successful Project BioBus initiative[7], spearheaded by Brian Reavey, Dan Dunning, and Leland Bourdon, raised nationwide awareness of biodiesel and other renewable energy alternatives. Biodiesel refers to a non-petroleum-based Diesel fuel consisting of short chain Alkyl ( Methyl or ethyl) Esters made by Project BioBus later donated the bus to Energy Action for use in the Road to Detroit initiative, the purpose of which was to protest the auto industry's environmental practices. The college is active in sustainable agriculture and recycling programs. Local farmers and the student-run organic garden supply more than a quarter of the food consumed in the dining halls, and the campus-wide recycling program has a 60% diversion rate. Moreover, the college has steadfastly used "green" building techniques in its recent construction.

Middlebury is committed to environmental sustainability and stewardship, both in its academic programs and in practice. [8] Middlebury recently incorporated environmental stewardship into its new mission statement. ^[4] The college is a signatory to the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment and the Talloires Declaration. The Talloires Declaration is a declaration for Sustainability, created for and by presidents of institutions of higher learning Additionally, the college has committed to be carbon neutral by 2016. ^[5] Middlebury was one of only six universities to receive a grade of “A-” from the Sustainable Endowments Institute on its College Sustainability Report Card 2008, the highest grade awarded. ^[6]

LGBT Activism

In the 2007-2008 school year, Middlebury College took a very proactive stance against homophobia. BenPhelpsJPG|thumb|right|Westboro Baptist Church picket signs with Ben Phelps grandson of Fred Phelps In response to military recruitment being able to come to campus (despite their inability to comply to the College's nondiscrimination policy because of the ban on openly homosexual military personnel), the Middlebury Open Queer Alliance held protests and an open forum in order to discuss how the College should react to the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. "Don't ask don't tell" is the common term for the policy about homosexuality in the U

Further programming developed by Middlebury to provide support to its LGBT community included inviting congressmen to campus to discuss discrimination and the bringing of Cynthia Wade, Academy Award winning director, and maker of the documentary Freeheld which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. The success of the organization and much of its programming has placed Middlebury as one of the most LGBT friendly institutions according to The Advocate College Guide.

The Bread Loaf School of English

The Bread Loaf School of English is based at the college's mountain campus (43.953° N 72.993° W) in Ripton, just outside Middlebury, in sight of Bread Loaf Mountain and the main ridge of the Green Mountains. Bread Loaf Mountain is a Mountain located in Addison County, Vermont, in the Green Mountain National Forest. The poet Robert Frost is credited as a major influence on the school. Robert Lee Frost (March 26 1874 &ndash January 29 1963 was an American Poet. Frost "first came to the School on the invitation of Dean Wilfred Davison in 1921. Friend and neighbor to Bread Loaf, (he) returned to the School every summer with but three exceptions for 42 years. "[9] Every summer since 1920, Bread Loaf has offered students from around the United States and the world intensive courses in literature, creative writing, the teaching of writing, and theater. Prominent faculty and staff have included George K. Anderson, William Carlos Williams, Herschel Brickell, Bernard DeVoto, Edward Weismiller, Theodore Roethke, John Crowe Ransom, Elizabeth Drew, A. Bartlett Giamatti, Lawrence B. William Carlos Williams ( 17 September 1883 &ndash 4 March 1963) was an American poet closely associated with modernism Bernard Augustine DeVoto ( January 11, 1897 - November 13, 1955) was an American Historian and Author who specialized Theodore Huebner Roethke (ˈrɛtkə RET-keh) May 25]] 1908 &ndash August 1 1963) was an American Poet, who published several volumes John Crowe Ransom ( April 30, 1888, Pulaski Tennessee - July 3, 1974, Gambier Ohio) was an American Poet Elizabeth Drew (born November 16, 1935, Cincinnati Ohio) is an American political Journalist and author Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti ( April 4, 1938 &ndash September 1, 1989) was the President of Yale University, and Holland, Nancy Martin, Perry Miller, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Carlos Baker, Harold Bloom, James Britton, Cleanth Brooks, Reuben Brower, Martin Price, Donald Stauffer, Charles Edward Eaton, Richard Ellman, Cedric Whitman, Paul Muldoon, William Sloane, John Ciardi, John P. Marquand, and Wylie Sypher. Perry G Miller ( February 25, 1905, Chicago USA - December 9, 1963) was an American intellectual Historian Catherine Drinker Bowen (January 1 1897 in Haverford PA as Catherine Drinker – November 1 1973 in Haverford was an American biographer Carlos Baker ( May 5, 1909 – April 18, 1987) was the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton University. Harold Bloom' (born July 11, 1930) is a Literary critic. Bloom defended 19th-century Romantic poets at a time when their reputations James Britton, American painter (1878-1936 born in Hartford, Connecticut. Cleanth Brooks ( October 16, 1906 - May 10, 1994) was an influential American literary critic and professor Richard Ellmann ( March 15 1918 – May 13 1987) was a prominent American / British Literary critic and Biographer Paul Muldoon (born 20 June 1951 is a writer academic and educator as well as Pulitzer Prize -winning poet from County Armagh, Northern Ireland William Milligan Sloane ( November 12, 1850 &ndash September 12, 1928) was an American educator and historian born at Richmond John Anthony Ciardi ( June 24, 1916 - March 30, 1986) was an American Poet, translator, and Etymologist John Phillips Marquand ( November 10, 1893 – July 16, 1960) was a 20th-century American novelist Feltus Wylie Sypher ( December 12, 1905 - August 1987 was an American non-fiction writer and professor [10] [11]

The Bread Loaf School has campuses at five locations: Vermont, Oxford (England), North Carolina, New Mexico, and Alaska. Oxford is currently bidding for the 2010 Wikimania Conference Oxford () is a city, and the County town of Oxfordshire, North Carolina ( is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States New Mexico ( is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States of America. Alaska ( Аляска Alyaska) is a state in the United States of America, in the northwest of the North American continent The primary campus, near Middlebury, enrolls some 250 students every summer. The Oxford campus (at Lincoln College) enrolls 90 students. The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the Lincoln College (in full The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints Lincoln) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford The fledgling North Carolina campus, near the Blue Ridge Mountains, is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and enrolled its first class of 50 students in 2006. The Blue Ridge, or Blue Ridge Mountains, is a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian division The University of North Carolina Asheville is a co-educational four year public Liberal arts university Asheville is a City in and the County seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United The New Mexico campus at St. John's College, Santa Fe, enrolls 80 students every summer. St John's College is a Liberal arts college with two US campuses Annapolis Maryland and Santa Fe New Mexico. Santa Fe ( Navajo: Yootó is the Capital of the state of New Mexico. The Alaska campus, at the University of Alaska Southeast near Juneau, also enrolls 80 students. The University of Alaska Southeast ( UAS) is a regional university in the University of Alaska System.

Students at Bread Loaf can either attend for one or two summers as continuing graduate students, or work toward a Master of Arts (M.A.) or Master of Letters (M.Litt.) degree over the course of four or five summers spread over different campuses. A Master of Arts ( Latin: Magister Artium) is a Postgraduate academic Master's degree awarded by universities in a large The Master of Letters (MLitt from the Latin magister litterarum) is a Postgraduate Master's degree.

In addition to the six-week summer program, Middlebury College's Bread Loaf campus is also the site of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference for established authors. The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference called by The New Yorker, "the oldest and most prestigious writers' conference in the country" was founded in 1926 "Two weeks of intensive workshops, lectures, classes and readings present writers with rigorous practical and theoretical approaches to their craft, and offer a model of literary instruction. "[12] Participants have included John Gardner, Charles Baxter, John Irving, Toni Morrison, and Barry Lopez. John Champlin Gardner Jr ( July 21, 1933 – September 14, 1982) was a well-known and controversial American novelist and university Charles Baxter (born 1947 in Minneapolis) is an American Author. John Winslow Irving (born March 2, 1942 as John Wallace Blunt Jr Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18 1931 is a Nobel Prize -winning American author editor and professor Barry Holstun Lopez (born January 6, 1945) is an American author Essayist, and fiction writer whose work is known for its environmental The conference takes place in late August, after the School of English summer session has ended. Additionally, The New England Young Writers' Conference brings together emerging writers every May for workshops and readings.

Study abroad and the C. V. Starr schools

Middlebury College has designed C. V. Starr-Middlebury Schools Abroad to offer graduate and undergraduate language students the chance to enrich and expand their skills in a setting where they can fully live the language. These schools have been endowed by Cornelius Vander Starr's Starr Foundation. Cornelius Vander Starr ( October 15, 1892 - December 20, 1968) was an American businessman

The college has schools abroad at 30 locations including Argentina (Buenos Aires and Tucumán), Brazil (Belo Horizonte, Florianópolis and Niteroi), Chile (Concepción, La Serena, Santiago, Tumuco, Valdivia, and Valparaíso), China (Hangzhou), Egypt (Alexandria), France (Paris, Poitiers and Bordeaux), Germany (Berlin and Mainz), Italy (Ferrara and Florence), Mexico (Guadalajara and Xalapa), Russia (Irkutsk, Moscow, and Yaroslavl), Spain (Cordoba, Getafe, Logroño, and Madrid), and Uruguay (Montevideo).

The C. V. Starr-Middlebury Schools Abroad are designed to immerse every student as completely as possible in both the language and the culture of the host nation. All course work is taught in the target language. Students often have the opportunity to enroll directly in the local university, where their classmates will be from the host country, or to take courses designed exclusively for program participants.

Many of the newer sites abroad give students the opportunity to live and study in a provincial setting, where they will have less interaction with other Americans, and with tourists in general. Students looking for a more international city can still choose the programs in Berlin, Buenos Aires, Florence, Madrid, Moscow, and Paris. Each of the Schools Abroad has a resident director and other support staff.

Athletics

View of Bread Loaf Campus and the Champlain Valley from the summit of the Middlebury College Snow Bowl

Middlebury competes in the New England Small College Athletic Conference. The Middlebury College Snow Bowl is a ski area in Hancock Vermont, east of Middlebury in the Green Mountains. Members The league currently has 11 full members Conference championships The NESCAC holds conference championships in Fall season Men and Middlebury leads the NESCAC in total number of National Championships, having won 28 individual titles since the conference lifted its ban on NCAA play in 1994^[7]. Members The league currently has 11 full members Conference championships The NESCAC holds conference championships in Fall season Men and Middlebury enjoys national success in soccer, tennis, cross country running, lacrosse, hockey, field hockey, and skiing, and fields 31 varsity NCAA teams and over 10 competitive club teams. The National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA, often pronounced "N-C-Double-A" is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions conferences organizations Currently, 28% of students participate in varsity sports.

In 1979 and 1980 the women's ski team won two AIAW national championships. The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women was founded in 1971 to govern collegiate women's athletics in the United States and to administer national championships

Middlebury's success in intercollegiate sports is evidenced by the college's second place ranking in the 2007 National Sports Academy Directors' Cup standings. From 2004 to 2006, both the men's and women's ice hockey teams won three consecutive NCAA Division III National Championships, an unprecedented feat for a college at any level. The annual NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship tournament determines the top Ice hockey team in the NCAA Division I, Division II, and Division The baseball program is also on the rise, winning their first NESCAC championship in 2006, while finishing fourth in New England. In 2007, Middlebury's Men's Soccer Team captured its first NCAA Championship in the 54 year history of the program. Also in 2007, the Middlebury College Rugby Club won its first national championship by defeating Arkansas State in the Division II game 38 to 22.

Middlebury's athletic facilities include a state-of-the-art 50-meter by 25-yard swimming pool, the 3,500-seat Youngman Field at Alumni Stadium for football and lacrosse, a 2,600 spectator hockey arena, a regulation rugby pitch, the Middlebury College Snow Bowl, the 18-hole Ralph Myhre golf course, and the Carroll and Jane Rikert Ski Touring Center at the Bread Loaf mountain campus. Youngman Field at Alumni Stadium is a 3500-capacity multi-use Stadium in Middlebury Vermont on the campus of the NCAA Division III -affiliated The Middlebury College Snow Bowl is a ski area in Hancock Vermont, east of Middlebury in the Green Mountains.

The college mascot is the panther.

Middlebury Fight Song

The Middlebury fight song, entitled "Cheer, Boys, Cheer," is the following:

Cheer, boys, cheer for Middlebury, cheer! Fight, boys, fight, fight with all your might! Cheer, boys, cheer for Middlebury, cheer! It'll be a hot time in the ole town tonight! Hey, hey, hey! (Repeat)

Presidents of Middlebury

1. Jeremiah Atwater, 1800-1809
2. Henry Davis, 1809-1818
3. Joshua Bates, 1818-1840
4. Benjamin Labaree, 1840-1866
5. Harvey Denison Kitchel, 1866-1875
6. Calvin Butler Hulbert, 1875-1880
7. Cyrus Hamlin, 1880-1885
8. Ezra Brainerd, 1885-1908
9. John Martin Thomas, 1908-1921
10. Paul Dwight Moody, 1921-1943
11. Samuel Somerville Stratton, 1943-1963
12. James Isbell Armstrong, 1963-1975
13. Olin Clyde Robison, 1975-1990
14. Timothy Light, 1990-1991
15. John Malcolm McCardell, Jr., 1991-2004
16. Ronald D. Liebowitz. Jeremiah Atwater (1773-1858 was notable as an educator minister and college president Henry Davis, a Clergyman, was born in East Hampton New York, September 15, 1771. See also Joshua Bates (financier, Joshua Hall Bates Joshua Bates was born on a farm in Cohasset Massachusetts in 1776 and graduated Benjamin Labaree (1801-1883 was a minister, Professor and the longest serving president of Middlebury College from 1840 until 1866 Harvey Denison Kitchel ( February 3, 1812, Washington County New York – September 11, 1895) served as President of Middlebury Calvin Butler Hulbert ( October 18, 1827, East Sheldon Vermont – 1917 was president of Middlebury College from 1875 until 1880 For the Civil War general see Cyrus Hamlin (general. Cyrus Hamlin (1811&ndash1900 was an American Congregational Missionary and Ezra Brainerd ( December 17, 1844 – December 8, 1924) was president of Middlebury College from 1885 until 1908 John Martin Thomas ( December 27, 1869 &ndash 26 February 1952) was the ninth President of Middlebury College, the ninth Paul Dwight Moody (1879 - 1947 son of famed evangelical minister Dwight L Samuel Somerville Stratton (b1898 - d1969 served as the eleventh president of Middlebury College, 1943 - 1963 James Isbell Armstrong is President Emeritus of Middlebury College. Olin Clyde Robison (born 1936 served as the thirteenth president of Middlebury College, 1975-1990 Timothy Light (born 1938 was the fourteenth president of Middlebury College, 1990-1991 John Malcolm McCardell Jr is the president emeritus and a professor of history at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. Ronald D Liebowitz (born 1957 is the current president of Middlebury College, and a professor of Geography. 2004-current

Commencement speakers

• 2008- Walter Massey
• 2007- Bill Clinton
• 2006- Ann M. Veneman
• 2005- Rudolph Giuliani
• 2004- Christopher Reeve and Dana Reeve
• 2003- Bill Richardson
• 2002- Dava Sobel
• 2001- Fred Rogers
• 2000- Lech Wałęsa
• 1999- John Wallach
• 1998- Daniel Moynihan
• 1997- Robert Brustein
• 1996- Frank Sesno
• 1995- Stephen Jay Gould
• 1994- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
• 1992- Jeff Danziger
• 1990- Bill Moyers
• 1989- Bill Bradley
• 1988- David K. Shipler
• 1987- Barbara Jordan
• 1986- David McCullough
• 1985- Ted Koppel
• 1984- Burgess Meredith
• 1981- Jane Bryant Quinn
• 1980- Elliot Richardson
• 1976- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Notable alumni

Names and achievements of notable Middlebury alums in all fields can be found at the List of Middlebury College alumni. Dr Walter Eugene Massey, an African-American educator physicist and business leader was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on April 5 1938 William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States Ann Margaret Veneman (born June 29, 1949) is currently the Executive Director of UNICEF. KBE Per, "Postnominal letters should be included when they are issued by a country or organization the subject has been closely associated with Christopher D'Olier Reeve ( September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004) was an American Actor, director, Dana Reeve ( March 17 1961 – March 6 2006) was an American actress, Singer, and activist for disability William Blaine "Bill" Richardson III (born November 15, 1947) is the current Governor of New Mexico and was a candidate for the 2008 Dava Sobel (born 1947 is a Writer of popular expositions of scientific topics John Wallach ( 1943 - 10 July 2002) was an American journalist author and editor as well as founder of Seeds of Peace international camp in For the US Representative from Illinois see P H Moynihan Daniel Patrick “Pat” Moynihan ( March 16, 1927 – March 26, Robert Sanford Brustein (born April 21, 1927 in New York City) is an American theatrical Critic, producer, Playwright Frank Sesno is a professor of public policy and communication at The George Washington University[http //www Stephen Jay Gould (September 10 1941 &ndash May 20 2002 was a prominent American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr, born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger ( October 15 1917 &ndash February 28 2007) was a Pulitzer Prize recipient Jeff Danziger (born 1943 in New York, New York) is a syndicated Political cartoonist and Author. Bill Moyers (born June 5, 1934, as William Donald "Billy Don" Moyers) is an American Journalist and public commentator William Warren "Bill" Bradley (born July 28 1943 is an American hall of fame Basketball player Rhodes scholar, and former David K Shipler (born December 3, 1942) is an American author who won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1987 for Barbara Charline Jordan ( February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) was an American politician from Texas David Gaub McCullough (mə-kŭl'ə (born July 7, 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Born and raised in Pittsburgh McCullough later attended Edward James "Ted" Koppel (born February 8, 1940) is an American journalist, best known as the former anchor for the Oliver Burgess Meredith ( November 16, 1908 He graduated from Hoosac School in 1926 Jane Bryant Quinn (born February 5, 1939) is an American journalist Elliot Lee Richardson ( July 20, 1920 &ndash December 31, 1999) was an American lawyer and politician who was a member of the cabinet Anne Morrow Lindbergh, born Anne Spencer Morrow ( June 22, 1906 &ndash February 7, 2001) was a pioneering American Aviator Politics Claire D Ayer - a Democratic member of the Vermont State Senate, representing the Addison senate district,

Points of interest

• Gravity Research Foundation monument

See also

• WRMC Non-stop student-run Middlebury radio
• Radio Arts Middlebury, a radio features program serving the college's arts community
• MCAB Middlebury College Activities Board
• The Middlebury Radio Theater of Thrills and Suspense, radio drama club
• Step It Up 2007, a nationwide campaign started by environmentalist Bill McKibben and members of SNG to demand action on global warming
• Shelby Davis Scholarship
• The Bobolinks, co-ed a cappella
• Stuck in the Middle, all-male a cappella
• The Mountain Ayres, Renaissance A Cappella
• Mamajamas co-ed a cappella
• Dissipated Eight a cappella ensemble
• New England Review
• Mischords a cappella ensemble
• Moe'N'a Lisa - episode of The Simpsons based on Middlebury's Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
• List of colleges and universities in the United States
  • List of colleges and universities in Vermont

References

External links

• Middlebury College official website
• The Middlebury Campus - The student newspaper of Middlebury College
• Monterey Institute of International Studies homepage
• A Walking History of Middlebury - A description of the history and architecture of the Middlebury College campus
• Middlebury Initiative
• U.S. News and World Report's Ranking of Liberal Arts Colleges
• Distinctively American: The Residential Liberal Arts Colleges