Sex discrimination

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Includes the Review of Gender Exclusivity in Student Life Programs and Policies, and the Review of Potential Student Life Issues Facing Transgender Students both submitted March 19, 2010.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Group: Each series in this subgroup includes records from the Office of the President, sorted by keyword. The first set (#-C, D-F, G-P, Jones, Betty A, Reaccreditation records, Reaccreditation R-Z. and Rohatyn, Felix) are arranged alphabetically. The second set is arranged into thematic series (Ronald D. Liebowitz, Commencement, Residential Life and Commons System, Staff Council, Middlebury Initiative, Fraternities, NESCAC, South Africa Divestiture, and Miscellaneous) and the folders within each...

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1 interview with Pierina B. Castiglione, Associate Professor of Italian. During the interview, Castiglione discusses her experiences in the Italian Summer School and the Italian department, her time as founder and editor of "Il Giornalino," a journal of Italian language instruction. Castiglione also briefly speaks on gender inequality.

Scope and Contents 1 interview with Nicholas Clifford, Middlebury College Professor of History and Trustee. During the interview, Clifford discusses his educational background and professional experience; his recruitment by President Armstrong; research interests; his teaching philosophy and style; a comparison of Presidents Armstrong, Robison, and McCardell; problems facing higher education; the effects of the changing student population; efforts to increase diversity; decision making; the role of women at...

Scope and Contents 1 interview with Jackie Flickinger, former Director of Student Activities at Middlebury College. Flickinger discusses moving to Middlebury; how she got her position at Middlebury; fraternities; winter carnival; winter term; student organizations; student social events; the campus; student information center; gender segregation on campus; the start of co-ed dorms; changing of the drinking age; gender discrimination; John Bowker; WRMC; Environmental quality club; school dances; Middlebury's...

Scope and Contents 1 .mp4 file, 1 .m4a file, and 1 .vtt file containing oral history interview conducted on Zoom with former Women's Lacrosse Coach, Missy Foote, and Special Collections Oral History Intern, Beatrice Donovan, Class of 2023.5.Introduction. Roles. Coach starting in 1977. Coached basketball, swimming, lacrosse, field hockey. Associate Athletic Director. Senior Women's Administrator. Director of Physical Education. Retired in 2015. (0:15); Title IX History. Graduated in 1974. Coaching...

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Includes archived website for the People's Gender Council of Middlebury as well as jpeg and pdf files containing materials produced by the Council. Materials include recommendations made by the Council to the administration of the college, meeting minutes and agendas, fliers advertising news and initiatives, as well as an executive summary of the Council.

Scope and Contents 1 .m4a and 1 .vtt file generated during Zoom oral history interview with Ellie Greenberg, Class of 2020, conducted by Special Collections Oral History Intern, Beatrice Donovan, Class of 2023.5.Introduction. Class of 2020. Women's soccer. Track and Field. (0:06); Experience through Middlebury. Identity. Demand of time through soccer. Closeness of one team. (0:39); Background. Single-sex K-12. All female teachers. All female coaches. (1:55); Adjustment in college. 5 male coaches....

Scope and Contents 1 interview with Joan T. Greiner, Middlebury College Professor of Physical Education. Greiner discusses Skidmore; the Snow Bowl; skiing; women faculty; women's athletics; intermural sports; sororities; student activities; women's field on battell beach; Title IX; moving from McCullough to the Field house; coaching tennis; gender discrimination; President Stratton; teaching physical education; running the ski school; ROTC; physical education requirements; gender segregation in classes; co-ed...

Scope and Contents 1 interview with Samuel Guarnaccia, Class of 1930, as part of the "Middlebury College Oral History Project." Guarnaccia discusses New England private schools; football; athletics; student faculty relationships; sex on campus; strictness on campus; sexual relationships; segregation by sexes; gender stereotypes; coeducation; Harvard; college dances; fraternities; KDI; student jobs; social groups; exclusion of Blacks and Jews in fraternities; President Stratton; student politics; student...

Scope and Contents 1 interview with Marion Holmes, Class of 1933. Holmes discussed gender segregation on campus; women lacking quality professors because they could only have female professors; sororities; her work as secretary to the registrar and to faculty; her salary; changes to college size; rising cost of tutition; positives about Middlebury College; Winter Carnival; Breadloaf; Forrest Hall; classes in the chapel; compulsory chapel; Hamlin Hall burned down by a student; Robert Frost; President Stratton;...

Scope and Contents 1 interview with Frances Hutner, Middlebury College class of 1940. During the interview, Hutner discusses her family connection to Middlebury; her father's time as faculty member at Middlebury; the economics major; select school for women; intellectual home life; politics; economics; farm issues; co-ops; campus social life; the relationship between Middlebury College and the town of Middlebury, Vermont; research interests; women's economic issues; The Economic Role of Women (1977); Equal Pay...

Scope and Contents 1 interview with Elizabeth Walt Baker Kelly. Kelly discusses how she started working at Middlebury; what she likes about Middlebury; the isolation of the campus; dress code; being social director; dormitories; new buildings on campus; strict regulations on women; being a veteran; characteristics of the students; sororities racial discrimination; the end of sororities; the difficulties of her job; her relationship with the students; town gown relations; keeping in touch with former students;...

Scope and Contents 2 audio cassette tapes containing interview with David J. Littlefield, Middlebury College Professor of English, conducted by Allison Kirk. Littlefield discusses how he got his position at Middlebury; PhD from Yale; Douglas Beers; winter term; film courses; Antioch law school; isolation of Middlebury; court system; being chairman of the division of humanities; President Armstrong; being chairman of the English department; firing staff; turning down being chairman of the English department;...

Scope and Contents 1 interview with Howard McCoy Munford, Class of 1934. Munford discusses Reginald Cook; department of American literature; resigning in protest; President Armstrong; studying as an undergraduate; Harvard; President Moody; Middlebury's reputation; restrictions on women; fraternities; social life; fraternities exclusion; gender segregation; women's separate college; qualitifications of the women; number of student applicants; comparing grades of men and women; women professors; Eleanor Ross;...

Scope and Contents 1 .mov file containing oral history interview with Erin Nicholas, Class of 2022, conducted by Special Collections Oral History Intern, Beatrice Donovan, Class of 2023.5.Introduction. Class of 2022. Field hockey. Lacrosse (0:06); Positive experience. Grateful for teammates. Sport-dominant school. (0:38); Successful teams. Support from students and faculty. Event on Title IX. Earning respect. Winning for attention (1:13); Level of resources. Access to training room. Locker rooms....

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Episode description reads: "This is the second episode of our four-part series examining feminism in our community. Today, reporter Cali Kapp examines the early history of women at Middlebury. Speaking with Matt Jennings, Editorial Director of the Middlebury Magazine, and Professor David Stameshkin, we dive into the roots of why women were first admitted to Middlebury and the struggles they have faced over the years."

Scope and Contents 1 .wav file containing oral history interview with Director of Athletic Communications/Assistant Athletic Director, Alexis "Ali" Paquette conducted by Special Collections Oral History Intern, Beatrice Donovan, Class of 2023.5.Introduction. Assistant Athletic Director. Director of Communications. (0:22); Oral history project overview (0:37); Record keepers. History in the College Archives Collections. (1:30); Work on Title IX. Women's sports success. (2:05); Year 50. (2:13)...

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Includes archived website for the People's Gender Council of Middlebury as well as jpeg and pdf files containing materials produced by the Council. Materials include recommendations made by the Council to the administration of the college, meeting minutes and agendas, fliers advertising news and initiatives, as well as an executive summary of the Council.

Scope and Contents 1 interview with Bruce B. Peterson (Class of 1956) conducted by Deborah Clifford. Judith and Bruce Peterson discussed the difference between female and male Middlebury applicants; social class differences; diversity; double standards for women, restrictions on women; freedom of men; the social divide between men and women; getting pinned; fraternities; blanket permission; going to New York state to drink legally; changes in fraternities over the years; sororities; compulsory chapel; Storrs...

Scope and Contents Copy of the Presidential Commission on Student Life, meeting of October 30, 1967. The document discusses Dean Dennis O'Brien and his subcommittee on student rights. Presidential Commission on Undergraduate Life produced in 1967 during the tenure of President James Isbell Armstrong. The document primarily discusses Dean Dennis O'Brien and his subcommittee on student rights in development of a student questionnaire. Subjects of note include: parietal hours ("times when open...

Scope and Contents 1 .wav file containing oral history interview with Head Volleyball Coach, Sarah Raunecker, Class of 1992, conducted by Special Collections Oral History Intern, Beatrice Donovan, Class of 2023.5.Introduction. Head women's volleyball coach. Director of Physical Education. 29th year as head coach. 10 years assistant basketball coach. (0:02); Equal treatment as a player. Late 80s. Early 90s. (0:31); Time away from Middlebury. CCI access. (1:10); Women's assistant basketball coach....

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Includes archived website for the People's Gender Council of Middlebury as well as jpeg and pdf files containing materials produced by the Council. Materials include recommendations made by the Council to the administration of the college, meeting minutes and agendas, fliers advertising news and initiatives, as well as an executive summary of the Council.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Group: Each series in this subgroup includes records from the Office of the President, sorted by keyword. The first set (#-C, D-F, G-P, Jones, Betty A, Reaccreditation records, Reaccreditation R-Z. and Rohatyn, Felix) are arranged alphabetically. The second set is arranged into thematic series (Ronald D. Liebowitz, Commencement, Residential Life and Commons System, Staff Council, Middlebury Initiative, Fraternities, NESCAC, South Africa Divestiture, and Miscellaneous) and the folders within each...

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Includes the Review of Gender Exclusivity in Student Life Programs and Policies, and the Review of Potential Student Life Issues Facing Transgender Students both submitted March 19, 2010.

Scope and Contents List of teach ins scheduled for March 31, the date of Charles Murray's lecture on campus, three years following the March 2nd protest in 2017. Students and faculty were encouraged to host and attend teach ins that focused on anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-classist, anti-xenophobic and anti-pseudoscientific material in protest of Charles Murray's lecture. See February 27, 2020 letter entitled, "A call to strike on March 31: A letter to faculty from students." Charles Murray's...

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Report compiled by Middlebury College students Sharon Smith (Class of 1968) and Frank Merriman (Class of 1968) entitled "Middlebury Women and the Rules."

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Typescript copy of "Teachers at Middlebury College: A Case Study of the Under Representation of Women in America" by Bill Landry, Middlebury College Class of 1974. The paper was submitted by Landry on May 8, 1974, as his senior thesis in sociology.

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Collection includes oral history interviews conducted under the auspices of Special Collections. Interviewees include Middlebury College students, alumni, faculty, staff and administrators. As of 2020, the vast majority of the interviews are one-on-one, and more group recording sessions are being conducted and added.