Civic Leadership Development
Our co-curricular programs foster students’ team leadership skills, promote long-term relationships with their community members and peers, and address social issues like migrant justice, nutrition access, democratic engagement, and youth development.
Community Engagement Organizations
We advise and support 15+ Community Engagement Organizations (CEOs) and supervise 40+ student interns in their civic leadership roles. Examples include Community Friends, MiddVotes, Middlebury College Access Mentoring, Middlebury Alternative Break Programs, Juntos, and Civics in Action.
Democracy Initiatives
We mobilize students to be active participants and ready stewards of democracy through education, access and organizing.
Language in Motion
Language in Motion (LiM) is an educational collaboration that connects Middlebury’s international, study abroad, and upper level language students with Addison County elementary, middle, and high school teachers, students, and classrooms.
Middlebury Alternative Break Trips (MAlt)
MAlt is Middlebury’s alternative break program. MAlt engages Middlebury students with communities across the nation and the globe in order to share an experience, provide service where service is needed, and learn about the systems that shape community realities around the world. Trips run during February break.
Community Friends
Community Friends is one of our signature Community Engagement Organizations (CEO). Community Friends was founded in 1960 and matches Middlebury College students with kids aged 6-12 in the local community in mentoring relationships.
Public Service Leadership Awards
These annual awards honor civic leadership among students, faculty, alumni, and community partnerships. The award ceremony in late spring celebrates the leaders who are making an impact in the local community.
Civic Leadership Certificate
The CCE is currently developing a Civic Leadership Certificate program for student leaders in community engagement. This Certificate program will support emerging civic leaders to intentionally develop their leadership knowledge and capacities, connect with other passionate leaders, and design cohesion across their community-based learning experiences.
Newman Civic Fellowship
We work with Campus Compact to identify one student leader each year to participate in the Newman Civic Fellowship. The Newman Civic Fellowship is a year-long program that provides students with opportunities to nurture their potential as leaders and develop strategies for social change.