College to expand collaborations

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College’s Center for Community Engagement (CCE) is seeking to boost collaboration between college faculty and students on the one hand and on the other organizations with ties to their local communities in Addison County and more broadly. The primary vehicle to spur this collaboration is a new website for Middlebury Liberal Arts in Action (MLAA) that allows nonprofits, schools, state offices and businesses to submit project proposals. Faculty, in turn, search the submissions and iden … (read more)

MAUSD stories, part 5: final thoughts

Editor’s note: This is a project of the Mount Abraham Unified School District’s Community Engagement Committee (CEC). The Addison Independent is hosting this content as a service to the community. Names of the interviewees have been withheld in accordance … (read more)

MAUSD stories, Part 4: Discoveries

Editor’s note: This is a project of the Mount Abraham Unified School District’s Community Engagement Committee (CEC). The Addison Independent is hosting this content as a service to the community. Names of the interviewees have been withheld in accordance … (read more)

MAUSD stories, Part 3: supports

Editor’s note: This is a project of the Mount Abraham Unified School District’s Community Engagement Committee (CEC). The Addison Independent is hosting this content as a service to the community. Names of the interviewees have been withheld in accordance … (read more)

MAUSD stories, Part 2: Challenges

Editor’s note: This is a project of the Mount Abraham Unified School District’s Community Engagement Committee (CEC). The Addison Independent is hosting this content as a service to the community. Names of the interviewees have been withheld in accordance … (read more)

MAUSD stories, Part 1: routines

Editor’s note: This is a project of the Mount Abraham Unified School District’s Community Engagement Committee (CEC). The Addison Independent is hosting this content as a service to the community. Names of the interviewees have been withheld in accordance … (read more)

MAUSD stories: Rural Vermont learning in the midst of COVID-19

Editor’s note: This is a project of the Mount Abraham Unified School District’s Community Engagement Committee (CEC). The Addison Independent is hosting this content as a service to the community. Names of the interviewees have been withheld in accordance … (read more)

Letter to the editor: Community engagement is vital

School budget votes in recent years have tended to split voters almost evenly in half. The two sides are familiar to all of us — the adoring parents who want everything for their kids versus empty nesters who have neither the need nor desire to stomach do … (read more)