The Center for Community Engagement

Through immersive learning within and outside of the classroom, Middlebury students and faculty work to contribute to local and global communities. This event series will feature stories from and conversations with Middlebury College undergraduates and faculty members who have unique perspectives on engaging in community during the pandemic.

Three current students will share how they are engaged in experiential learning across cultural and geographic boundaries through course projects, volunteer service, and student-led co-curricular activities.
Moderator: Christina Brook ’18

Visit the Center for Community Engagement’s virtual booth as part of the Student Activities Fair for information about the center and its programs.

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Join Firas Nasr ’15 and Carla Aronsohn, co-founders of Cultivate Strategies, for a 90 minute workshop on cultivating sustainable activism. What practices are needed to engage in activism through the long-term? What is getting in the way from creating on-ramps to organizing and preventing burnout? We’ll take a deep dive into the systems at play and provide an overview of the various tools and structures that have been effective in creating long-term, liberated movements. The workshop will include skill-building, reflection, and tool sharing.

Show off your trivia skills this Thursday 3/11 at 9pm EST for the chance to give back to Addison County non-profits! There will be a mix of CCE-centric questions as well as general trivia, and contestants will compete live with the help of Zoom and Crowdpurr to win one of three prizes to donate to the Addison County non-profit of their choice. Play alone or with your friends and family! Donation prizes are: $225 for first place, $150 for second place, and $125 for third place.

This winter term, join the Center for Community Engagement’s AmeriCorps MLK Day of Service documentary discussion on Freedom Riders by Stanley Nelson.
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In this workshop by Timothy Eatman, Dean of the Honors Living-Learning Community and Associate Professor of Urban Education in the College of Arts & Sciences at Rutgers University, participants will consider what new ways of knowing and being are called for in our current moment at Middlebury, in higher education, and in the world we are preparing our students to enter.

Pivoting on a full participation framework, Timothy Eatman, Dean of the Honors Living-Learning Community and Associate Professor of Urban Education in the College of Arts & Sciences at Rutgers University, will share the evidence-based research demonstrating a positive relationship between student participation in high-impact practices (HIPs) and improved student outcomes. These curricular and co-curricular practices support student engagement, advance curricular coherence, and generate equitable outcomes.

In this opening presentation to the 2020 Contemporary Teaching in the Liberal Arts Series, noted futurist and educational commentator Bryan Alexander will analyze how the COVID-19 pandemic is transforming American higher education and will outline the key dynamics that will shape the post-pandemic college. Bryan’s presentation will set a broad and deep context for the rest of the sessions in this year’s series. Bryan will also respond to questions and comments from attendees.

Center for Community Engagement
20 Old Chapel Road

Some of you may have heard of a recent scandal where fifty people were accused by the Justice Department of taking part in a major college admission scandal. In light of this event, our next luncheon will explore elite colleges as sites that (re)produce privilege and inequality. We will also be discussing how elite colleges, like our own, are not inclusive of those with lower-income backgrounds.

Join P&P for a discussion on food insecurity and the food challenges facing Vermont communities, with special guests Jenna O’Donnell of Hunger Free Vermont, Anne Gleason from the Mary Johnson Children’s Center. What are the challenges impacting food and nutrition programs, and the ways communities around Vermont are mobilizing to meet them? How can we meet the needs of those of us facing daily food insecurity? Share your thoughts and experiences - over lunch! Food provided - please RSVP at the event link!