The Center for Community Engagement

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!

VEAP Symposium 2018, Fostering Equitable Communities: The Links between Environments and Poverty. At 4:30 this symposium will be open to the public for the Keynote Address.

The Vermont Educational Alliance on Poverty (VEAP) brings its members together to address issues of poverty in Vermont, through collaborative efforts between our institutions and community partners. Students, faculty, and staff engage poverty by way of classroom and experiential learning, research, and public advocacy.

How does income inequality result in justice inequality? In what ways does the justice system perpetuate poverty? What is Vermont’s justice system doing to address the root causes of criminality? Join Middlebury’s Privilege & Poverty Academic Cluster (P&P) for a lunch discussion with Dennis Wygmans, State’s Attorney for Addison County, TJ Donovan, Attorney General for Vermont, and James Gratton, Attorney for Addison County’s Office of the Defender General.

Want to get involved with our community, support teens and have fun? Addison Central Teens, which provides the Teen Center in Middlebury, is seeking students for work study, volunteer, and intern positions! Join us for an information session at the CCE from 12:30-1:15 pm to learn more. Free pizza provided!

fall student organization training required for student community service organization leaders