What do you do after 13 years at the helm of Middlebury College? Former prez John McCardell surprised everyone — including this alumna — when he dedicated himself to a controversial cause: convincing ...

Public policy often illustrates the law of unintended consequences. Society's complexity -- multiple variables with myriad connections -- often causes the consequences of a policy to be contrary to, ...

In June, John McCardell and a group of college presidents and chancellors founded the Amethyst Initiative, calling for “informed and unimpeded” debate on the legal drinking age of 21. Amethyst came ...

McCardell's own transition to the job of president was significantly less smooth. When the brief and troubled presidency of his predecessor, Timothy Light, erupted into a full-fledged storm during the ...

To combat underage binge drinking, the national legal drinking age should be lowered to 18, a former college president is saying. Since releasing a 250-page study on the societal effects of modern ...

The Sept. 16 article in the Vermont Sunday Magazine about John McCardell and lowering the minimum legal drinking age to 18 was the same article published in Seven Days on Aug. 22. Both require a ...

As a former college president, Dr. John McCardell acknowledges he might seem "a very improbable match" for his latest career choice. More than a few of his friends believe he has decided "to embark on ...

MONTPELIER John McCardell planned for a bit of a political fight. McCardell, the former Middlebury College president on a mission to reopen national debate about lowering the legal drinking age, knew ...