19 Facts About Middlebury College

Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont.

Middlebury College received its founding charter on November 1, 1800, as an outgrowth of the Addison County Grammar School, which had been founded three years earlier in 1797.

Yet the idea for a college was that of town fathers rather than clergymen, and Middlebury was clearly "the Town's College" rather than the Church's.

At its second commencement in 1804, Middlebury College granted Lemuel Haynes an honorary master's degree, the first advanced degree ever bestowed upon an African American.

Middlebury College abolished fraternities in the early 1990s, but the organization continued on campus in the less ritualized form of a social house.

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In 1965, Middlebury established its Environmental Studies program, creating the first undergraduate Environmental Studies program in the U S Nationally affiliated fraternities were abolished in 1990; some chose to become co-educational social houses which continue today.

In 2005, Middlebury College signed an affiliation agreement with the Monterey Institute of International Studies, a graduate school in Monterey, California.

In January 2014, as part of a new brand identity system, Middlebury College announced that the Monterey Institute of International Studies would be renamed the Middlebury College Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

Middlebury College was the first institution of higher education in the United States to offer an environmental studies major, establishing the major in 1965.

Middlebury College is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.

Middlebury College offers summer language immersion programs in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, and Spanish to middle and high school students through the Middlebury College-Monterey Language Academy.

Middlebury College enrolls around 600 students to begin in the fall semester and an additional 100 to begin in the spring.

Middlebury College's campus is characterized by quads and open spaces, views of the Green Mountains and the Adirondacks, and historic granite, marble, and limestone buildings.

Middlebury College owns the Robert Frost Farm, where American poet Robert Frost lived and wrote in the summer and fall months from 1939 until his death in 1963.

Middlebury College recently incorporated environmental stewardship into its new mission statement.

In 2010, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Middlebury College announced the creation of the Sustainable Investments Initiative, a co-mingled fiscal vehicle seeking investments that generate long-term social, environmental, and economic value.

Also in 2010, Middlebury College and Integrated Energy Solutions, a Vermont developer of farm-based methane energy, agreed to explore a bio-methane gas collection and delivery system that could help Middlebury further reduce its use of fossil fuels.

Middlebury College enjoys national success in soccer, tennis, cross country running, lacrosse, ice hockey, field hockey, and skiing, and fields 31 varsity NCAA teams and several competitive club teams.

In football, Middlebury is rivals with Hamilton College; the rivalry dates to 1911 and since 1980 the game between the two schools has been called the "Rocking Chair Classic, " with the Mack-Jack Rocking Chair going to the winner.