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College faculty push to close Monterey amid spending cuts

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE FILM & Media Culture Professor David Miranda Hardy speaks at a May 8 gathering on campus in which 200 people protested compensation cuts and other steps recently announced by administrators.
Independent photo/Steve James
May 15, 2025
Middlebury College faculty are urging administrators to divest from the institution’s graduate school in Monterey, Calif., in the wake of recently-announced compensation cuts and other steps aimed at filling a projected $14.1 million deficit for this fiscal year.
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