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Betty and David Jones, John and Bonnie McCardell, Frank Sesno and Clara Yu will also receive honorary degrees.
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?Clara Yu, who recently retired as president of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, will receive an honorary Doctor of Education degree.
Yu joined the Middlebury College faculty in 1987 as an assistant professor of Chinese language and literature.
After receiving tenure in 1993, she was appointed vice president for languages and director of the Summer Language Schools.
In that capacity, she restructured the operation of Middlebury's Language Schools and Schools Abroad and designed a rigorous three-year program that became the prototype of Middlebury's highly acclaimed international studies major.
In 1996, Yu founded the Center for Educational Technology (CET) at Middlebury and oversaw the successful completion of a five-year initiative to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of language instruction through the use of technology.
In 2001, she founded the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE), which serves as a catalyst for innovation and collaboration for 81 liberal arts colleges.
In 2006, she was inaugurated as the 12th president of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, a position in which she helped write a new chapter in Middlebury's leadership in global education.
She retired from that position in 2008. ?The Middlebury College commencement will be held outdoors regardless of the weather on the main quadrangle behind Voter Hall on College Street (Route 125) at 10 a.m. on Sunday, May 24.