The Global Health program minor will be hosting an info session on Wednesday, October 20 from 6-7 PM at the Innovation Hub (132 Blinn Lane). This session will be for students interested in the Global Health minor. We will discuss course selection, internships, and ways to fulfill requirements through study abroad. Come check it out!
If you can’t make the session, feel free to reach out to Pam Berenbaum, Director, Global Health Program.
Wednesday, October 13
Perennial Harvest Days
All Souls Interfaith Gathering (291 Bostwick Road, Shelburne, VT)
4:30 – 6:30p ET
Register here if you prefer to attend via Zoom
What do an allopathic physician, an acupuncturist who founded a tai chi school, a mind-body medicine therapist, the founder of a therapeutic wilderness program, and the founder of a regenerative farm and healing center have in common? Each knows that the dominant way of living, disconnected to the planet and our true selves, has long term mental, physical, and social side effects. Join us as we listen to how these healers help their clients and students heal through an aligned goal of prevention and intentional living in right relationship with two of our most important relationships: our relationship to ourselves and to all other living beings.
Practitioners (click for bios)
Mod Barefoot, True North Wilderness
Marian Bouchard, Fiddlehead MD
Gillian Comstock, MettaEarth
Thomas Jackson, Center for Mind-Body Medicine
Christopher Kiely, Falling Waters
Moderator: Nadine Canter Barnicle, New Perennials
Perennial Harvest Days 2021 is a series of events throughout October that share, explore, and deepen the work of the New Perennials Project in the Champlain Valley of Vermont. Upcoming events include panels and workshops on perennial perspectives in Food Systems, Education, Health and Wellness, as well as Faith and Sacred Practice Traditions. The panels will be hosted by Middlebury College and All Souls Interfaith Gathering. Perennial Harvest Days also includes site visits and activities at Bread & Butter Farm and The Willowell Foundation. All events are free and open to the public. (Current CDC and Vermont Covid restrictions apply.)
More info/complete Perennial Harvest Days schedule:https://www.newperennials.org/harvestdays
Tuesday, October 12
1:30 – 3:00p
Register here to attend via Zoom
This is the first of two events focused on establishing an environmental justice policy for Vermont.
Join us for a virtual panel discussion to raise awareness of and support for Vermont’s S.148: An act relating to environmental justice in Vermont. The bill seeks to establish an environmental justice policy for the State of Vermont and would require state agencies to incorporate environmental justice into their work. The bill will be discussed in this spring’s upcoming legislative session.
Panelists:
Senator Kesha Ram Hinsdale, Vermont State Senator and lead sponsor of S. 148
Judy Dow, Abenaki Educator and Executive Director of Gedakina
Sebbi Wu, Climate and Equity Advocate with the Vermont Public Interest Research Group
Iris Hsiang, youth delegate to the Vermont Climate Council and member of the Just Transitions Subcommittee
Moderated by Carolyn Finney, Environmental Affairs Artist in Residence, Middlebury
Sponsored by Program in Environmental Studies, Climate Action Capacity Project, Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest, Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Anderson Freeman Resource Center.
Here is a curated listing of jobs, internships, fellowships listed in Handshake under K-12 Education sorted by “Application Deadline” which netted 126 opportunities. I would recommend setting up a “Job Alert” where you can save your searches and be contacted whenever new opportunities are posted to Handshake.
AASHE 2021 Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education
The Future Is…
October 12 – 14
Middlebury is excited to be a Host Institution for this three-day virtual conference offered by AASHE (Assoc for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Ed).
FREE REGISTRATION is available for interested Middlebury students/faculty/staff and includes access to all sessions and events during the live conference
plus eighty days of post-conference on-demand access (through December 31).
REGISTER NOW! Link and instructions at go/AASHE2021
Many interesting sessions and keynotes – check out the full schedule:https://www.aashe.org/conference/program/schedule/
The failure of many entities to respond effectively to a deadly pandemic, coming at a time when society is already reeling from intensifying climate-related disasters, ongoing systemic racism and rising authoritarianism, has resulted in profound apprehension about the future. With a theme of “The future is …”, this year’s Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education reflects the uncertainty about the future that many feel and invites participants to recommit themselves to the urgent work of building a future that is sustainable, equitable, and resilient. We seek to highlight inspiring examples of higher education leadership that empower participants to envision and create such a future. Ultimately, the future is ours to make. Are you committed to leveraging the power of higher education to forge a brighter future?
Keynote Events
Tuesday, Oct. 12, 10:00a ET
Dr. Michael J. Sorrell, President, Paul Quinn College, will share a vision for a new model of higher education with poverty reduction as a core purpose.
Tuesday, Oct. 12, 4:00p ET
Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Lecturer, American Indian Studies, California State University at San Marcos, will draw from her forthcoming book Illegitimate Nation: Privilege, Race, and Accountability in the U.S. Settler State to argue that a sustainable future must simultaneously incorporate Indigenous knowledge and a decolonial ethic of political accountability to Indigenous nations for its ongoing genocidal settler structure.
Wednesday, Oct. 13, 10:00a ET
Zamzam Ibrahim, Vice President, The European Students’ Union (ESU), Daphne Frias, youth organizer, and Chloe Maxmin, Maine State Senator, will share inspiring examples of how young people are leading the way to a sustainable future on campus and beyond.
Wednesday, Oct. 13, 4:00p ET
Dr. Ian Haney López, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at University of California, Berkeley, will discuss how the climate movement cannot succeed unless race, class and gender solidarity are at the heart of everything we do.
Thursday, Oct. 14, 10:00a ET
Heather McGhee, author, will discuss her new book, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, with particular emphasis on the way in which racism hurts higher education and limits the prospects for climate action.
Thursday, Oct. 14, 4:15p ET
Inspired by a recent essay series entitled The Pedagogy of Transition: Educating for the Future We Want, Dr. Tracey Osborne, Director, UC Center for Climate Justice Associate Professor and UC Presidential Endowed Chair, Management of Complex Systems, UC Merced, Dr. Madhavi Venkatesan, Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics, Northeastern University, and Dr. Stephen Sterling, Emeritus Professor of Sustainability Education, Plymouth University, will reflect on the shifts in educational policy and practice necessary to create a sustainable future.
 Register for our 2021 It Takes a Region Conference!  Registration is open! NESAWG’s annual It Takes a Region Conference brings together farm and food systems practitioners across the 12-state Northeast region to learn, debate, collaborate, and innovate solutions to critical food systems issues. Each year, we look at the trajectory of the food and farm movement and the role our network can play in shaping its future. We offer in-depth working sessions that tackle important questions about our regional food system and how to strengthen it, drawing from the collective expertise and wisdom of conference attendees.Register today!We extended the scholarship deadline!The new deadline to apply is October 15th at midnight. We prioritize youth, farmers, farmworkers, BIPOC, those from front-line and marginalized communities, those living with disabilities, elders, and low-income individuals in selecting recipients. Scholarship awards will cover your entire registration fee for the conference. Learn more and fill out our simple, short application here.Apply now! |
| We extended the scholarship deadline!The new deadline to apply is October 15th at midnight. We prioritize youth, farmers, farmworkers, BIPOC, those from front-line and marginalized communities, those living with disabilities, elders, and low-income individuals in selecting recipients. Scholarship awards will cover your entire registration fee for the conference. Learn more and fill out our simple, short application here. |
We are currently seeking 18-25 year-olds interested in horticulture, agroforestry, carbon capture research, and community building for our spring (2/28-5/27) and spring-summer (2/28-8/19) seasons at Zumwalt Acres!
We will be hosting a virtual info session on Tuesday, October 19th from 7-8pm EST.
Our application deadline is November 1. See our website for more information! Folks interested in staying spring through summer are highly encouraged to apply!
Are you thinking you want to try a new experience to build out your previous experiences or try something new? Winter term internships for credit are a great way to gain new skills in a sector that you’ve been curious about or want try out. Check out the growing list of WT internships on Handshake.
A quick tip: use the Handshake filter called “Labeled By Your School” –> “CCI Winter Term”. This will result in any opportunities that CCI is helping to curate with employers. Its growing every day.
Winter Term Internships (for credit) – Check out these new additions!
There are lots of social impact jobs and internships being posted every day on Handshake, some from alums and friends of Middlebury, others from companies that are looking for liberal arts grads. Check them out today.
Here are the instructions on how to set up Handshake Job Alerts to let you know when new jobs & internships are posted to Handshake using the criteria you have set up. Below are a few that have popped into my inbox through Job Alerts that I set up:
ADL Ventures-Boston (Remote)
Associate – Energy and Buildings Innovation
Engagement Manager – Energy and Buildings Innovation
Project-based Consultants – Energy and Buildings Innovation
NREL – National Renewable Energy Laboratory-Golden, CO
Markets and Policy – Year-Round Graduate Intern
Ascend Analytics, LLC- Bolder, CO
EDP Renewables North America-Houston, TX
DPMI/Sitka was designed to answer this question: “What do social justice activists need to know to successfully promote high-impact, sustainable initiatives that address local priorities?” The program includes training on local systems mapping; appreciative interviewing; tools to analyze a local context; stakeholder analysis; situation analysis using problem trees, force field diagrams, and fishbone representations; participatory theory of change development; lean experimentation with appropriate metrics; and proposal writing. Participants are tasked with designing or redesigning a social change initiative that meets the needs of a specific community. They also produce a proposal that can generate financial support for a community priority while meeting funder requirements. This is a 3-week virtual program. You will work closely with local leadership to strengthen two projects sponsored by the Sitka Tribe of Alaska’s Cultural Resources, Education and Employment Department.
The program fee is $1,000; participants are welcome to apply for a CCE Cross Cultural Community Engagement Grant to help cover the costs of the program.
For further information and to request an application, contact Beryl Levinger at blevinger@rootchange.org
