Middlebury College has named Bill Burger vice president for communications. Burger is currently associate vice president for communications at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. When he assumes his new role at Middlebury, on Jan. 1, 2013, he will direct communication efforts for Middlebury and for the Monterey Institute of International Studies, a graduate school of Middlebury College in Monterey, Calif.

The Board of Directors of the Ethan Allen Institute is pleased to announce the election of Robert Roper, of Stowe, as its new President.

Roper, who has served on the Institute’s Board for the past year and hosted its influential Common Sense Radio weekday talk show on WDEV, will spearhead an aggressive new program to educate Vermonters on the fundamentals of a free society – individual liberty, limited government, lower taxes, competitive free enterprise, economic opportunity, fiscal responsibility, and respect for the constitution.

The Board of Trustees of Dartmouth has elected Philip J. Hanlon ’77, PhD, as Dartmouth’s 18th president. President-Elect Hanlon, 57, serves as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan, where he is also the Donald J. Lewis Professor of Mathematics.

The ribbon is cut at the Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce Ribbon Cutting and Grand Opening Celebration of Vermont Adult Learning's new location, 16 Evelyn St., Suite 101, Rutland, VT. Vermont Adult Learning is occupying the newly remodeled space formerly occupied by Community College of Vermont. Vermont Adult Learning provides adults with essential skills education to further their educational, employment and personal goals in order to expand their options and capabilities in the family, community and workplace.