Middlebury College Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

©Middlebury College
''Motto: Scientia et Virtus "Knowledge and Virtue"
Founded	1800
School type	Private coeducational
President	Ronald D. Liebowitz
Location	Middlebury, Vermont
Enrollment	2,270 undergraduates
Annual Fees	$40,400 (2004-2005)
Campus surroundings	Rural
Campus size	350 acres (1.4 km²) (main campus) 1,500 acres (6 km²) (mountain campus)
Sports teams	Panthers
Mead Chapel, Middlebury College

Middlebury College is a small, selective liberal arts college located in the small, New England hamlet of Middlebury, Vermont. Founded in 1800, the college has a long history of distinguished scholarship, and is particularly known for the strength of its foreign language and writing programs. Today, Middlebury consistently ranks among the top liberal arts colleges in the nation. The 350 acre (1.4 km²) main campus is located between Vermont's Green Mountains to the east and New York's Adirondack Mountains to the west, while nearby is a 1,500 acre (6 km²) mountain campus, where Middlebury operates the Bread Loaf School of English and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, founded by poet Robert Frost, every summer.

Approximately 2,300 students attend Middlebury during the regular academic year. Founded in 1915, the Middlebury Language Schools take over the campus during the summer, teaching about 1,200 students Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

Alexander Twilight, class of 1823, was the first black graduate of any college in the United States.

Middlebury competes in the New England Small College Athletic Conference; its athletic strengths are in lacrosse, hockey, and skiing, but generally enjoys success in all disciplines. Also, it has approximately 30 varsity NCAA teams. The Middlebury campus includes a downhill ski area, the Middlebury College Snow Bowl, and the Carroll and Jane Rikert Ski Touring Center in the mountains near the Bread Loaf campus. The college mascot is the panther.

In May 2004, an anonymous benefactor made a $50 million donation to Middlebury. It was the largest cash gift the school has ever receieved. The donation brought Middlebury's total endowment to more than $700 million. The donor asked only that Middlebury name its recently-built science building, Bicentennial Hall, after outgoing President John McCardell Jr.

See Also

• List of colleges and universities in the United States
  • List of colleges and universities in Vermont

External links

• Middlebury College official website
• The Middlebury Campus - The student newspaper of Middlebury College

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