Resources and Partners
Katherine Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation
The Davis Conflict Transformation Collaborative at Middlebury College hosts events and provides resources for intergroup dialogue and restorative justice practices.
Conflict Transformation has a new event series called the Good Talks series, which offers short overviews from experts on political conversations followed by guided small group conversations. For more information, including upcoming Good Talks and previous recordings and discussion guides, visit the Good Talks website.
You may get in contact with the Conflict Transformation Collaborative, and sign up for the Conflict Transformation email newsletter (3x/year), by emailing conflicttransformation@middlebury.edu.
Middlebury Does Democracy Campus Coalition
Our Middlebury Does Democracy Campus Coalition of faculty, staff and students connect periodically through the academic year to share ideas and collaborate on how to foster student democratic engagement at Middlebury.
- Contact Jason Duquette-Hoffman (jduquettehoffman@middlebury.edu) at the Center for Community Engagement to learn more!
NESCAC Votes
Middlebury College, along with Bowdoin College, co-founded NESCAC Votes, a voting challenge among NESCAC member schools. NESCAC schools collaborate to collectively raise student voting rates and political engagement on our campuses.
Middlebury College was recognized with the following NESCAC Votes awards for the 2020 elections:
- Highest Voter Registration
- Most Improved Voter Turnout Award
- Highest Voter Turnout
Civic Nation provides support and advising for NESCAC Votes, and collaborates closely with the Middlebury College Center for Community Engagement and the Bowdoin College McKeen Center for the Common Good to Implement the challenge.
Check back soon for information regarding Middlebury’s engagement for the 2024 Presidential Election.
All-In Campus Democracy Challenge
Middlebury participates with the All-In Campus Democracy Challenge to help students form the habits of active and informed citizenship, make democratic participation a core value on their campus, and cultivate generations of engaged citizens who are essential to a healthy democracy. Middlebury College was awarded the inaugural Most Engaged Campus for College Student Voting for the 2022 Election.
National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement
Middlebury College participates in the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE). Since NSLVE’s launch in 2013, more than 1,000 colleges and universities have signed up to receive their voting rates for federal elections (both midterm and presidential) from NSLVE, a signature initiative of the Institute for Democracy and Higher Education (IDHE) at Tufts University’s Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life.
Check back later for more information regarding Middlebury College’s NSLVE data from the 2024 Presidential Election.
Faculty Resources
Are you a faculty member wanting to incorporate civic/democratic engagement into your classroom? Check out our Faculty Toolkit for Civic Engagement to gain access to information, resources, and tools to implement right away.
Middlebury also has an emerging campus coalition of faculty, staff and students interested in fostering student democratic engagement in a range of ways, and beyond voting! Contact Jason Duquette-Hoffman (jduquettehoffman@middlebury.edu) at the Center for Community Engagement to learn more!