Campus Resources and Partners

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Faculty Resources

Faculty are a key resource in supporting student engagement in the democratic process! From your course content, discussions and readings, to the critical thinking, inquiry and analysis you lead students through, your work helps build students’ civic skills and identity. Here are some resources for thinking about how to embed democratic engagement in your courses:

Scholars Strategy Network - Election resources for faculty
Vote.org - Comprehensive voter registration and engagement resources for students and faculty
Searchable resource library from the Students Learn, Students Vote Faculty Coalition - https://slsvcoalition.org/resource-library/

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 at the Center for Community Engagement to learn more!

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.

Making Democracy Real

Middlebury’s 17th President Laurie Patton offers an update on the Conflict Transformation Initiative in the Middlebury Magazine.

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.