Middlebury College
| Middlebury College | |
|---|---|
| motto | Scientia et Virtus ( Latin ) |
| founding | 1800 |
| Sponsorship | Private |
| place | Middlebury , Vermont , USA |
| president | Laurie Patton |
| Students | 2,500 |
| Professors | 331 |
| Foundation assets | $ 1.1 billion |
| University sports | NCAA Division III, New England Small College Athletic Conference |
| Website | www.middlebury.edu |
The Middlebury College is a private university and a liberal arts college in the town of Middlebury in Vermont in the United States . It is one of the most selective and oldest academic institutions in the country.
history
Originally founded as Addison County Grammar School in 1797 , it was promoted to college on November 1, 1800.
Alexander Twilight graduated from Middlebury College, becoming the first American of African descent to graduate from a US college or university. In 1883, female students were admitted for the first time, making Middlebury College one of the first liberal arts colleges in New England with co-education .
In 2005, Middlebury partnered with the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California. The university ranking of US News & World Report has named Middlebury fourth best liberal arts college in the US. In January 2007, the college hit the headlines when the history faculty decided to ban the online encyclopedia Wikipedia as a source of reference in the creation of academic papers after several students, after poorly evaluating their examination paper, relied on the origin of a false statement from a Wikipedia article .
Organization and study
Middlebury College accepts approximately 2,500 undergraduate students from across the United States and approximately 70 other states. It is known for its very demanding foreign language, science, environmental and international degree programs. With a 16% admission rate, it is classified among the best liberal arts colleges in the USA, often counted among the so-called "Little Ivies" (based on the " Ivy League ", a name for a group of traditional colleges in the far northeast of the USA with an excellent reputation, such as Harvard , Penn , Princeton , Yale , Columbia University , Cornell University or Dartmouth College ).
Sports
The university's sports teams call themselves the Panthers . The ice hockey team takes part in the US college championship .
Personalities
Lecturers
- Charles Baker Adams (1814-1853), naturalist
- Robert Frost (1874–1963), poet
- Bill McKibben (* 1960), environmental activist
- Oskar Seidlin (1911–1984), Germanist
- David Stoll (* 1952), anthropologist
Graduates
- Julia Alvarez (* 1950), author
- Eli P. Ashmun (1770-1819), politician
- Anna Belknap (* 1972), actress
- Hedda Berntsen (* 1976), athlete
- Vanessa Branch (* 1973), actress and photo model
- Elbert S. Brigham (1877–1962), politician
- Ron Brown (1941–1996), 30th Secretary of Commerce
- Titus Brown (1786–1849), politician
- T Cooper (born 1972), writer
- James Cromwell (born 1940), actor
- Jim Douglas (* 1951), 80th Governor of the State of Vermont
- Robert Gober (* 1954), artist
- Lado Gurgenidze (* 1970), Georgian banker and politician
- Steven Hauschka (born 1985), football player
- Charles James (* 1922), lawyer and diplomat
- Lyman Enos Knapp (1837–1904), politician
- Emily McLaughlin (1928–1991), actress
- Jeff Lindsay (born 1952), author
- Charles S. Moffett (1945–2015), art historian
- Samuel Nelson (1792–1873), Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1845 to 1872
- Theo Padnos (* 1968), journalist
- Amanda Peterson (born 1971), actress
- Amanda Plummer (born 1957), actress
- Dana Reeve (1961–2006), actress and singer
- Avital Ronell (* 1952), Israeli Germanist
- Shawn Ryan (born 1966), television producer and screenwriter
- James Tufts (1829-1886), politician
- Jake Weber (born 1964), actor
- Silas Wright (1795–1847), Governor of New York State from 1845 to 1847
Individual evidence
- ↑ Middlebury College: President offers update on finances, and a look ahead from November 1, 2010 (English). Accessed November 24, 2010
- ↑ US News & World Report: Best Colleges 2011 (English). Accessed November 24, 2010
- ↑ Heise Online: US college bans Wikipedia as a scientific source from February 21, 2007. Accessed November 24, 2010
- ↑ z. B. Greene, Howard and Mathew Greene (2000): Greenes' Guides to Educational Planning: The Hidden Ivies: Thirty Colleges of Excellence , HarperCollins, ISBN 0-06-095362-4
Web links
Coordinates: 44 ° 0 '31.9 " N , 73 ° 10' 33" W.