The Center for Community Engagement COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Privilege and Poverty Academic Cluster Information Session

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.

Ross Courtyard (Terrace)

Privilege & Poverty Info Session: Summer Internships + Academics

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.

Anderson Freeman Resource Center

Privilege & Poverty Academic Cluster Info/Design Workshop

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.

20 Old Chapel Road Living Room

FREE
Open to the Public

P&P Lunch Series: Writer David Goodman on the school-to-prison pipeline: racial inequity in education

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.

Ross Fireplace Lounge Room 101

Open to the Public