Full disclosure: I am a low level administrator at Middlebury College. My wife, however, is a big wig here and was directly involved in this resolution.
Can’t help it, but I feel like this is a BFD:
In “How My Campus Avoided a Horrible Protest Shutdown,” Bill McKibben lays it out:
How—in a world that increasingly feels like it’s under unmanageable stress—can we maintain the sense of community, and the actual communities, that we need to both help alleviate and survive those stresses? It’s a question that our country has been asking at least since January 6, with no great answer.
Leaning heavily on his sense of community, he is clearly impressed how Middlebury College went out of its way to make this work:
...it was so interesting to see what students and administrators at Middlebury were discussing as they began negotiating over the course of the week. Instead of battling over the initial demand to simply condemn the invasion of Gaza—something that by this late date is a kind of boilerplate—they apparently began talking about how they might make that ceasefire call more meaningful.
They actually thought about bringing a solution that was bigger than both of the participants.
I’m going to let the article speak for itself.
Couldn’t be prouder of my wife and my workplace today.