The Center for Community Engagement

Are you ready to vote in November? Come to Davis Library and register to vote and/or request an absentee ballot!

September 25th is National Voter Registration Day! Come by McCullough Patio to register to vote, request an absentee ballot, listen to music, and get some treats!

What’s spookier than Halloween?? Not being registered to vote! Stop by Davis, grab some candy, get registered, and find out about upcoming elections in your state.

Join MiddVote for a general interest meeting so you can learn how to get involved with Middlebury’s non-partisan voter registration organization.

Come to the MiddVote general interest meeting to learn how to get involved with MiddVote, Middlebury’s non-partisan organization working to increase voter participation on campus and in the Addison County community. Snacks provided. All are welcome!

Come learn about MiddVote’s efforts to increase voter participation in 2018 and share your ideas for 2020! Snacks will be provided.

An evening of inspiration, learning, and community for members and coordinators of all Center for Community Engagement organizations that work with youth (Community Friends, DREAM, Sister to Sister, Brother to Brother, MiddCAM, MiddROC, NOM, MiddWild, and Page One Literacy Project).

The Summit’s goals are to:
+ Build networks across these impactful groups
+ Share student, community, and faculty resources and best practices in one place through a range of workshops appropriate for new and experienced members

In this performance and artist talk, the renowned artistic duo better known as Las Nietas de Nonó will share the visceral motivations of their creative work and artistic practices in recent struggles for equity, visibility, and political change in Puerto Rico and beyond. 

Ilustraciones de la Mecánica takes up the history of medical experimentation and the pharmaceutical industry in Puerto Rico. It considers in particular the violence inflicted on Black women’s bodies in the name of medical research.

Lessons from the field - What the Privilege & Poverty Academic Cluster Summer Internship experience meant for me

This discussion will feature students who have participated in the Privilege & Poverty Academic Cluster Summer Internship experience, discussing the lessons and learning they drew from working alongside community organizations addressing the causes and consequences of economic inequality. Join in the discussion to learn more about how experiential, community-connected learning can enrich, and complicate, your life and learning.

In this interactive presentation, we will consider the role that language plays in perpetuating social inequality, including at Middlebury. We will also reflect on how we can change our linguistic practices in order to shift the power dynamics on our campus and in the classroom. I will first introduce several concepts from sociolinguistics that help us understand how language and privilege/power are interconnected. We will then explore how those concepts apply to a variety of communicative situations, including our own interpersonal interactions.