Saint Michael's College

Sugarbush Van
2026-01-25 06:45 - 16:00, 2026-01-24 08:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Adventure Sports Center, VT
Get a free ride to Sugarbush. Pre-registration at the Adventure Sports Cetner is requested. With insufficient signup (less than 5) programs will be cancelled on the Friday morning before the trip.

Men's Basketball vs Southern Connecticut State
2026-01-24 15:30 - 18:30
Men’s Basketball vs Southern Connecticut State Colchester, VT

Men's Ice Hockey vs Saint Anselm
2026-01-24 15:00 - 18:00, 2026-01-23 19:00 - 22:00
Men’s Ice Hockey vs Saint Anselm South Burlington, VT

Women's Ice Hockey at Post
2026-01-24 14:45 - 17:45, 2026-01-23 20:00 - 23:00
Women’s Ice Hockey at Post Shelton, CT / Sports Center of Connecticut

Community Event: Invasive Species - In woods and yards
2026-01-24 14:00 - 15:30 | Cheray 101, Cheray Science Hall
Our local outdoor plants may be dormant, but you aren’t. Please consider joining us in learning about our local invasive plants, how to identify them, and why it’s important. Joining us will be our very own professor of biology, Declan McCabe. We will also have a presentation from James Eikenberry from the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service. Think Spring!

Women's Basketball vs Southern Connecticut State
2026-01-24 13:30 - 16:30
Women’s Basketball vs Southern Connecticut State Colchester, VT

Women's Swimming & Diving vs Southern Connecticut State
2026-01-24 13:00 - 16:00
Women’s Swimming & Diving vs Southern Connecticut State Colchester, VT

Men's Swimming & Diving vs Southern Connecticut State
2026-01-24 13:00 - 16:00
Men’s Swimming & Diving vs Southern Connecticut State Colchester, VT

Nordic Skiing Colby Carnival
2026-01-24 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-01-23 10:00 - 13:00
Nordic Skiing Colby Carnival Waterville, ME / Quarry Road Recreation Area

Duxbury Window Hike
2026-01-24 08:00 - 14:00 | Adventure Sports Center, VT
Enjoy a stroll in the mountains to a view ovelooking the Winooski River. No experience needed.
Included in all of our programs.

An inclusive, supportive environment for experiencing and learning.
State-of-the-sport instruction from student-instructors and working professionals.
Top-of-the-line technical equipment and outdoor clothing.
Opportunities to challenge yourself.

Ice Climbing with the Adventure Sports Center
2026-01-24 07:00 - 17:00 | Adventure Sports Center, VT
Take a trip to beautiful Smugglers Notch and experience this incredible sport. We’ll start with lower angle terrain and transition to more difficult climbs as your skills and comfort level builds.
On any trip you’ll get:

An inclusive, supportive environment for experiencing and learning.
State-of-the-sport instruction from student-instructors and working professionals.
Top-of-the-line technical equipment and outdoor clothing.
Opportunities to challenge yourself.

Pancake Dinner with Fire & Rescue
2026-01-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Dion Family Student Center
Join Fire & Rescue for a pancake dinner this FRI 1/23 in Dion! Come enjoy a tasty treat and learn more about our amazing, student-led organization.

Reflections on the Migrant Journey
2026-01-23 12:15 - 13:15 | Farrell Room, Saint Edmund’s Hall
This panel will feature students who participated in a winter travel course to the Mexico–Arizona border. They will share reflections on their experiences and what they learned. The migrant journey is deeply personal and diverse, yet many stories reveal common threads across communities. Through their insights, students will connect these experiences to broader themes of social inequity, diverse identities, and Catholic social teaching.

Alpine Skiing Saint Lawrence Carnival
2026-01-23 09:00 - 12:00, 2026-01-22 09:00 - 12:00
Alpine Skiing Saint Lawrence Carnival Lake Placid, NY / Whiteface Mountain

Men's Basketball at American International
2026-01-21 19:30 - 22:30
Men’s Basketball at American International Springfield, MA

Women's Basketball at American International
2026-01-21 17:30 - 20:30
Women’s Basketball at American International Springfield, MA

Fireside Chat: The World House - the Interrelatedness of All Things
2026-01-21 17:00 - 18:00 | Roy Room, Dion Family Student Center
Fireside Chat: The World House – the Interrelatedness of All Things with Olivier Niyonshuti ’25 and Jeffrey Ayres, PhD, Director of the Institute for Global Engagement.
Mr. Niyonshuti, a native of Rwanda and recent SMC alum, will share his lived experiences navigating multiple cultures and communities, exploring how global interconnectedness shapes personal identity, community responsibility, and collective action.

The Farm at SMC: Food, Community, and Education
2026-01-21 15:30 - 16:30 | Institute for the Environment, Saint Edmund’s Hall
The Farm at SMC: Food, Community, and Education
Expanding upon Kristyn Achilich’s “From Chaos to Community: Growing the Vision, Skill, and Courage to Care for Our Common Home,” presentation, this talk with will hone in on one particular pillar of the Institute for the Environment’s offerings: the Farm. Framing this campus growing space as one that is co-created for and by our community, we will explore the ways in which the Farm serves our common home (both here on our campus and beyond), providing opportunities for place-making, self-development, and deep connection.

Community & Networking Event: Dale Bell and the Journey of the Black Farmer from Sharecropping to Black Farmer Prosperity
2026-01-20 17:30 - 19:00 | Pomerleau Alumni Center
Dale Bell is the Associate Programs Director for Comprehensive Community Development at Edmundite Missions in Selma, Alabama. He invites the Vermont farming and food community to gather to build connections and support the Black Farmer Initiative in Rural Alabama.
Dale will speak on “Planting New Seeds: the Journey of the Black Farmer from Sharecropping to Black Farmer Prosperity.”
This presentation traces the transformation of Black farmers from the era of sharecropping – where many worked land they did not own under exploitative conditions – to the modern pursuit of land ownership, agricultural independence, and economic stability. Grounded in the teachings of Dr. King and the work of the Edmundite Missions, it examines the challenges Black farmers have historically faced, including limited access to resources, discriminatory lending practices, and generational barriers to ownership. Despite these obstacles, the narrative emphasizes the resilience, skill, and determination of Black agricultural communities as they reclaim their agricultural legacy. New initiatives, including impact grants, heirs property workshops, entrepreneurship training and community programs, are helping to support and empower Black farmers by expanding access to equipment, education, capital, and land. Through these efforts, Black farmers are planting new seeds of opportunity – transforming historical hardship into modern prosperity and building a stronger, more equitable future in agriculture.

Master of Arts in Teaching Open House
2026-01-20 16:00 - 18:15 | Farrell Room, Saint Edmund’s Hall
Learn how to earn your master’s degree and teaching license or additional endorsement in one year through St. Mike’s Master of Arts in Teaching program. With an excellent reputation and job placement rate, competitive pricing, an inclusive and supportive learning community, evening classes, and the option to spread the program over multiple years, the MAT will support you in meeting your professional goals. This event includes opportunities to meet current faculty and students and attend a graduate education class.

MLK Convocation Keynote: Tuning in to Our Communities: Improving Our Collective Sensibilities of Humility, Care and Relationality
2026-01-19 17:00 - 18:30 | Roy Room, Dion Family Student Center
Tuning in to Our Communities: Improving Our Collective Sensibilities of Humility, Care and Relationality with Bindu Panikkar, PhD, Associate Professor, Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources, University of Vermont
How do we strengthen our relational capabilities centered in care, humility, and collective wellbeing? The word humility comes from the Latin root—humus, earth, soil, ground. Humility means being grounded, being of the earth, it means an awareness of our place within a larger world. Practicing humility requires recognizing our limitations, acknowledging our interdependence, and valuing the contributions and knowledge of others. It is also the willingness to be changed through relational encounters. Humility in relations grounds us, allowing care, attentiveness and reciprocity to circulate, and serves as a powerful antidote to domination, extraction, and hierarchy.
In this talk, Dr. Panikkar makes the case that tuning in to our communities requires understanding what divides us and what erodes our collective capabilities of care, relationality, and humility. To guard against the theft of relationality, we must adopt attunement of care, listening, repair, reciprocity, and attentiveness as practice to rebuild our relational capacities necessary for collective wellbeing in a fractured world.

MLK Beloved Community Reception
2026-01-19 16:30 - 17:00 | Archway Lounge, Dion Family Student Center
MLK Beloved Community Reception celebrating local BIPoC-owned caterers

Planting New Seeds: the Journey of the Black Farmer from Sharecropping to Black Farmer Prosperity
2026-01-19 15:30 - 16:20 | Roy Room, Dion Family Student Center
Planting New Seeds: the Journey of the Black Farmer from Sharecropping to Black Farmer Prosperity with Dale Bell, Associate Programs Director, Comprehensive Community Development, Edmundite Missions
This presentation traces the transformation of Black farmers from the era of sharecropping – where many worked land they did not own under exploitative conditions – to the modern pursuit of land ownership, agricultural independence, and economic stability. Grounded in the teachings of Dr. King and the work of the Edmundite Missions, it examines the challenges Black farmers have historically faced, including limited access to resources, discriminatory lending practices, and generational barriers to ownership. Despite these obstacles, the narrative emphasizes the resilience, skill, and determination of Black agricultural communities as they reclaim their agricultural legacy. New initiatives, including impact grants, heirs property workshops, entrepreneurship training and community programs, are helping to support and empower Black farmers by expanding access to equipment, education, capital, and land. Through these efforts, Black farmers are planting new seeds of opportunity – transforming historical hardship into modern prosperity and building a stronger, more equitable future in agriculture.

“How a House Becomes a Home”: Bringing Community Into Classroom Teaching and Learning Experiences
2026-01-19 14:30 - 15:20 | Roy Room, Dion Family Student Center
“How a House Becomes a Home”: Bringing Community Into Classroom Teaching and Learning Experiences with Jolivette Anderson-Douoning, PhD, Director, Institute for Equity & Justice and Hip-hop and Afrobeat artist Edwin Owusu, M.A., Lecturer and Speech & Debate Coach at University of Vermont
Dr. Anderson-Douoning and Mr. Owusu discuss their process for working together across institutions (SMC and UVM) to offer students engagement across disciplines using public speaking, debate, and culture education learning labs. Bringing the lived experience into the classroom provides students with opportunities to study history and make history while still in college.
