The Center for Community Engagement

Applying to college is stressful, and especially hard without the support of others who have recently been through the process. MiddCAM pairs Middlebury students with juniors and seniors at Middlebury Union and Mt. Abraham High Schools as peer mentors, matched each February on shared interests as well as academics.

Mentors meet in person monthly, message in between, and join drop-in hours at the school over breakfast or pizza. It works more like a friendship than tutoring. Since 2014, 120 local high schoolers have gone on to more than 50 colleges.

Applying to college is stressful, and especially hard without the support of others who have recently been through the process. MiddCAM pairs Middlebury students with juniors and seniors at Middlebury Union and Mt. Abraham as peer mentors, matched each February on shared interests as well as academics.

Mentors meet in person monthly, message in between, and join drop-in hours at the school over breakfast or pizza. It works more like a friendship than tutoring. Since 2014, 120 local high schoolers have gone on to more than 50 colleges.

Come learn how to do traditional Chinese paper-cutting and traditional Latin American paper-cutting in good company!

Join us for a Community Conversation around the midterm election. This event welcomes all perspectives and backgrounds, foregrounding Conflict Transformation tools for talking across differences. 

Join us for a Community Conversation around the midterm election. This event welcomes all perspectives and backgrounds, foregrounding Conflict Transformation tools for talking across differences. 

Service Translation is a student-led program that translates primary source documents and oral histories of those impacted by Executive Order 9066 and the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. This introduction to Service Translation will feature our 2024 project translating subtitles (English to Japanese) of the documentary Removed by Force, which shares the experiences of Japanese Americans living in Hawaii. All interested welcome! No prior language or linguistic abilities required.

Does a Friday, home-cooked brunch sound good to you? Come relax at the Center for Community Engagement, learn about our programs, and hear from Midd students leading community-connected programs focused on language access, local food and farms, democracy initiatives, elementary school mentoring and so much more! This is an optional orientation event and all years are welcome.

What do people seek when they seek justice? A judgment may establish responsibility. A truth commission may create a public record. An oral history may give someone the opportunity to tell a story that has long gone unheard. Although these processes have different powers and purposes, each can provide something fundamental: acknowledgment. Drawing on her work as a human rights lawyer and co-founder of Rerooted, Anoush Baghdassarian, along with her co-founder Ani Schug, will explore acknowledgment as the connective tissue among law, memory, storytelling, and peacebuilding.

This will be an opportunity 1) to share your experiences and learning and insights; 2) to hear from your peers about their experiences and learning and insights; and 3) to enjoy a tasty meal together.

By invitation