Middlebury College is in the news as U.S. campuses weigh how private liberal arts institutions adapt to shifting higher-education funding and policy. The school, founded in 1800 in Middlebury, Vermont, enrolls about 2,500 undergraduates across 44 majors, with a global student body.
Recent papers suggest smartphones have a measurable impact on birth rates by altering social interactions and time use. The research, using early iPhone era data, finds declines in fertility align with high smartphone adoption in certain counties, though economists caution that other factors are at play.