The Center for Community Engagement

Swing by Ross to learn about Middlebury College’s Privilege & Poverty Academic Cluster! Members of this transdisciplinary Cluster include students, faculty, and staff interested in learning about the complexities of economic inequality through theory and practice. Participating students also have the opportunity to intern with community organizations.

Want to examine and engage with the dynamics of economic inequality, in the classroom and in communities near and far?

Looking for a meaningful, high-impact, fully-funded summer internship experience related to issues of inequality?

Join Middlebury’s Privilege & Poverty Academic Cluster for an info session highlighting P&P’s summer internship program (application deadline is Jan 12th!). Fully funded P&P summer internships provide students with an opportunity to extend prior classroom learning about poverty and inequality. Students are matched with local and national community agencies addressing the diverse impacts of economic inequality.

Interested in studying economic privilege and poverty? Want to address the causes and consequences of economic inequality?

The Privilege & Poverty (P&P) Academic Cluster is a learning community of students, staff, faculty, and community partners that critically examines the various contexts of economic inequality. We address the causes and consequences of poverty, and cultivate lifelong ethical participation in society. At our Info/Design Workshop, you’ll learn about what P&P is and how you can get involved.

Stop by CCE to learn about the Privilege & Poverty Academic Cluster, and how you can become a P&P scholar!

Join the Privilege & Poverty Academic Cluster as we discuss current anti-poverty legislation and other policy proposals being considered this legislative session with state legislators and other state leaders. Food will be available, or bring your own lunch!

The December P&P monthly lunch series discussion will be held on Friday, December 7th. Our featured guest will be writer, journalist and radio/tv host David Goodman, discussing his work on his recent book, co-authored with Prof. Mark Warren at UMass, Lift Us Up, Don’t Push Us Out: Voices from the Front Lines of the Educational Justice Movement (Beacon Press, Sept 2018).

David will discuss with us the school-to-prison pipeline, and the work ahead to address racial inequity in schools.

What is driving the recent rise in suicides among the Bhutanese refugee community here in Vermont? What can communities do to support refugees and other new community members as they adapt to new surroundings and work to build their lives here? What are some of the specific challenges refugees face living here in Vermont?

The Open Door Clinic, based in Middlebury, provides access to quality healthcare services, free of charge, to uninsured and under-insured adults in Addison County. This fall, we are looking for people who can either speak Spanish or who are certified EMTs (whether fluent in Spanish or not). The training will provide information about the clinic, the population it serves and techniques on how to be a medical interpreter, facilitating communication between Spanish-speaking patients and English-speaking medical providers.

Can you speak Spanish? Are you an EMT? The Open Door Clinic, based in Middlebury, provides access to quality healthcare services, free of charge, to uninsured and under-insured adults in Addison County. We are looking for people who can either speak Spanish or who are certified EMTs (whether fluent in Spanish or not). The training will provide information about the clinic, the population it serves and techniques on how to be a medical interpreter, facilitating communication between Spanish-speaking patients and English-speaking medical providers.