This year something amazing happened: Middlebury College became one of just ten institutions of higher education in the U.S. and one of just two private liberal arts colleges to be recognized by both the Carnegie Foundation and Ashoka. This fall Middlebury received the Carnegie Foundation’s Community Engagement Elective Classification, which dovetails with the Ashoka Changemaker Campus designation it received in 2011.
The other nine dually-certified campuses include: Rollins College, Arizona State University, Cornell University, Duke University, Marquette University, Portland State University, Tulane University, University of San Diego, and Western Washington University.
Sandra Enos (pictured above), Scholar in Residence at the national Campus Compact office at Tufts, is researching “commonalities between the service-learning, civic engagement, and social entrepreneurship fields, as well as some of the key differences.” She is particularly interested in Middlebury College and has already interviewed Middlebury’s Director of Community Engagement, Tiffany Sargent, and the Director of the Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Jon Isham. We look forward to following her research!