Middlebury College

Middlebury College is a small, selective liberal arts college located in the rural New England town of Middlebury, Vermont. Founded in 1800, the college has a long history of distinguished scholarship, and is particularly well known for the strength of its foreign language, writing, environmental, and international studies programs. Today, Middlebury consistently ranks among the top liberal arts colleges in the nation. 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 nearby 1,800 acre (7.3 km²) mountain campus, hosts the college's Bread Loaf School of English and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, founded by poet Robert Frost, every summer.

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Liberal arts college - New England - Middlebury, Vermont - 1800 - Champlain Valley - Vermont - Green Mountains - New York - Adirondack Mountains - Bread Loaf Writers' Conference - Robert Frost

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Approximately 2,300 students attend Middlebury during the regular academic year, representing all 50 United States and over 70 foreign countries. 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. The C.V. Starr - Middlebury Schools Abroad host students at 21 sites in Argentina, China, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Spain and Uruguay.

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

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Middlebury competes in the New England Small College Athletic Conference; it enjoys national success in lacrosse, hockey, and skiing, and fields 30 varsity NCAA teams and over 10 competitive club teams. Middlebury's success in intercollegiate sports is evidenced by the college's second place ranking in the 2005 National Sports Academy Directors' Cup standings after six NESCAC Championships, two NCAA titles, four NCAA individual championships and 33 All-Americans for 2004-2005. This included winning both the men's and women's NCAA Division III National Championships in ice hockey for the second year in a row. Middlebury's athletic facilities include a 3,500-seat football/lacrosse stadium, a 2,600 spectator hockey arena, a downhill ski area, 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. The college mascot is the panther.

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New England Small College Athletic Conference - NCAA

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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 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.

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2004 - John McCardell Jr

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