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Before noon Friday, student loan counselor Tyler Bergmeier had answered
the question four times. Nervous parents of college-bound high school seniors are wondering if they can count on getting the financing they need for fall tuition bills given dire reports of a national credit meltdown.
The chief of the Vermont Student Assistance Corporation said he's confident the funding will materialize. Executive Director Donald Vickers said his agency is now searching for the capital it needs to send this year's class off to college in the fall, an effort that started three months early because of the turmoil.
VSAC serves 55,000 borrowers each year, lending approximately million for education-related purposes.
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Champlain College
is a private, career-oriented college that offers four-year and two-year degrees in the historic hill section of Burlington.
On-campus students live in Victorian-era residence halls, while students
from around the globe don't even set foot on campus at all--they "go to
class" via their computers through Champlain College On-Line.
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Community College of Vermont
is a member of the Vermont State Colleges and provides a high-quality, affordable education to more than 8,000 students throughout Vermont each year and also offers convenient, flexible Workforce Training programs for Vermont businesses.
CCV offers open admissions, small classes, the lowest tuition in Vermont, 12 convenient locations statewide (including are large new building in Burlington), and a wide selection of courses, certificates, and degree programs.
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Resignation of Burlington College president Mary Clancy
two weeks ago, less than a year after she was hired, was blamed on her failure to raise money for the college. At the weekend commencement no one showed signs of financial distress or impending doom. But to be sure, limited monetary backing presents an obstacle in an otherwise promising scenario for the small, private liberal arts college.
This was Burlington College's 29th commencement since the school's inception as the Vermont Institute of Community Involvement in 1972. Today, with a student body of approximately 280 and tailored studies that stress individual degree programs, more than fifty graduates were awarded Bachelor's degrees and almost as many earned professional certificates.
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Saint Michael's College
offers a values-based education in which students, faculty, and staff share a serious commitment to social justice and service to others. Saint Mike's is located on Route 15 near the border between the village of Winooski in Colchester, Vermont. This college started out as a men's catholic college and now admits men and women from around the world.
Saint Mike's boasts 28 majors leading to Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degrees; as well as a special English as a Second Language Program is offered for international students. A unique bridge program assists international students in the transition to college-level course work.
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A group of Champlain College neighbors are opposing what they see
as the school's overly aggressive expansion in the area.
The college has three building projects planned: a dormitory on Main Street, a business center off Maple Street and a student center off South Willard Street. Neighbors feel the buildings are oversized and will bring an influx of cars to an area bursting at the seams with student traffic.
Champlain College President Roger Perry said the buildings should have little impact on traffic in the Burlington hill neighborhood. The business center and student center are enhancing services for students already enrolled, not attracting more people -- or more cars -- to the campus, Perry said.
The city of Burlington supports the school's business center project, Senior Assistant City Attorney Kenneth Schatz said.
Academia is weaving terrorism into course offerings.
William Paden stood before a class of University of Vermont students last week and explained they'd spend the semester together grappling with the question: "In what ways does Sept. 11 raise issues about the nature of religion?" ... Second-semester classes begin this month at most colleges, and many of the institutions have adjusted their course offerings by integrating the terror attacks. ... Several courses offered this term at the University of Vermont and the Community College of Vermont deal specifically, if not solely, with the events leading up to and the aftermath of Sept. 11.
Instructors have found the subject relevant to topics as wide-ranging as engineering, business, creative writing, politics and religion.
Sept. 11 will figure centrally in Paden's seminar. Students will read "Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence" by Mark Juergensmeyer, and other books related to religion and violence.
Albany College of Pharmacy Could Open In September 2008.
Vermont's first pharmacy school could start up next fall, thanks to a ,048,000 grant from the Vermont Economic Progress Council.
The council's executive director, Fred Kenney, said the plan is for the satellite campus of the Albany College of Pharmacy to open in a 62,000-square-foot building that formerly housed Bombardier Capital in Colchester.
A college spokesman said the school is to open in September with about 80 students, and grow to 450 students during the next five years.
The school is also expected to generate 50 to 75 faculty and staff jobs. And it is hoped graduates will help alleviate a chronic shortage of pharmacists in Vermont.
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Albany College of Pharmacy has selected the town of Colchester
as the site for its new Vermont campus opening in the fall of 2008. Colchester is located near Burlington in Northwest Vermont, in close proximity to the University of Vermont and Fletcher Allen Health Care. The main campus building will occupy an existing 62,000 square foot facility in the Water Tower Hill development ( 261 Mountain Drive ).
The College has also been approved for an incentive of up to ,048,047 by the Vermont Economic Progress Council to help facilitate its plans for student enrollment, job creation and campus improvements.
The pharmacy program for the Vermont campus will be a four-year professional offering. Students enrolling in the program will have four-year undergraduate degrees or have completed all college course prerequisites prior to enrollment. An estimated 80 students are projected to enroll this fall, with the program eventually expanding to 400 to 500 students and 50-75 faculty and staff positions when fully implemented.
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Building boom at St. Michael's College
COLCHESTER -- St. Michael's College plans to build a multimillion-dollar welcome center for the admissions, public relations and
other departments at the college's east entrance on Vermont 15.
The town Planning Commission has approved a site plan for the building. The school still needs state development permits for the Hoehl Welcome Center, named for Robert and Cynthia Hoehl, whose donation will help in its construction.
The 4,944-square-foot center would serve many purposes, college President Marc vanderHeyden said.
The Planning Commission this week also approved the college's proposal to demolish several buildings and construct a 96-space
faculty and staff parking lot on East Campus, the college's property across Vermont 15. The welcome center would be near an .5 million dormitory under construction.
year to complete, vanderHeyden said.
Burlington College
values the innate dignity of every human being. Our mission is to create a community of individuals who direct their own education and become passionate lifelong learners. Founded in 1972 as the Vermont Institute of Community Involvement,
Burlington College continues its 28-year tradition of emphasizing individualized education and community action. Our progressive liberal arts curriculum appeals to the broad interests of a highly diverse student body, while the intimate campus environment provides a level of support unparalleled on today s college scene.
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Burlington College looked north for new president.
Burlington College will announce today an unorthodox choice for its new president -- a Nova Scotia lawyer and politician who championed gun control and gay rights as a Liberal member of the Canadian parliament.
Mary Clancy, 54, will step into the job July 1. While she has taught at Canadian universities and served as a college trustee, that has not been the focus of her career. She has no experience in college administration.
The 250-student school in the Old North End has been seeking a replacement for Irish Studies scholar Dan Casey who is retiring from the presidency.
Clancy most recently completed a four-year stint as Canada's consul general in Boston, a job that allowed her to visit Vermont regularly. ... Barbara Scheuer, president of the board of trustees, said Clancy's public policy and teaching experience made her the right person for the job.
CCV is launching a performing arts program.
The program will have three emphases -- music, dance and theater -- to respond to community demand, said Jody Albright, coordinator of academic services at CCV. The program covers some classical but mainly contemporary formats, she said.
... This fall, 11 instructors will offer 16 courses in 12 locations around Vermont, though mainly on the Burlington campus. No auditions are required. In most classes, an average of eight or nine students study together, Albright said.
Champlain College began work this week on the first of three
planned construction projects in Burlington's Hill Section neighborhood.
Workers arrived Thursday at a vacant lot at 381 Main St. to clear trees and brush in preparation for a 55-bed dormitory. The housing, built on the site of a historic building destroyed by fire in 1993, should be ready for student occupancy late next summer.
Champlain has two more projects in the works. The college is applying for environmental permits for a business center and a student center, but has met opposition from a group of neighbors claiming the proposed buildings are too big and will clog the neighborhood with traffic.
The school recently released a traffic study of its core area, centered on the intersection of South Willard and Maple streets, intended to address those concerns.
Champlain College is celebrating.
The school has finally resolved a long dispute over its Act 250 permit. The college got the official green light Thursday to proceed with its million expansion plan.
Champlain College had wanted to begin construction on a Global Business and Technology Center last summer, but neighbors appealed the college's Act 250 permit over traffic concerns. The permit also covered construction of a Student Life Center planned for South Willard Street.
A few weeks ago the two parties settled their differences and today the Vermont Environmental Board agreed to dismiss the appeal.
School officials say the project will be good for the college and the community.
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Champlain College morphs with the times
Champlain College President Roger Perry has watched other small private colleges fail over the past two years. That is why he is more focused than ever on reinventing the Burlington school. ... He looked out over Lake Champlain from a building near the college's signature million library, paid for entirely by donations. The school looks much different than when he first arrived as vice president of academic affairs in 1982. Then, the campus was squashed between Maple and Willard streets. The outside of some buildings looked more like sheds than classrooms. ... To survive, Champlain is shifting from a two-year to a four-year degree school, increasing its entrepreneurial activities and focusing its academic programs to meet the needs of a global economy.
This means building new buildings, creating new degrees, cutting and adding programs, increasing faculty, new marketing strategies and, most importantly, finding new ways to raise money.
Champlain College Sports is Coming To An End.
Champlain College today became the first four-year, private college in the East to create a multifaceted fitness, intramural, outdoor recreation and extracurricular program for its entire student body in place of its varsity sports program.
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Champlain grows by degrees.
Champlain College in Burlington saw tourism in Vermont becoming a top income driver in the state, and wanted its students to be
able to take advantage of that trend. Thursday the college announced it had created a new bachelor's degree program called tourism and event management.
Champlain also created three other programs: professional writing, computer networking, and multimedia and graphic design. The college will hire at least one full-time and eight part-time or adjunct instructors to take on the extra classes over the next year.
With the most recent additions, Champlain offers 27 degree programs, including a master's of science in managing innovation and information technology.
The move from a two-year school to one with bachelor's and master's degrees -- which began a decade ago -- represents Champlain's attempt to stay viable as other small,
private schools with small endowments flounder.
Champlain Sports left Burlington with a victory.
The curtain came down to rousing applause on intercollegiate athletics at Champlain College with the men's basketball team's 76-69 win over Albany-Sage on Wednesday night at Memorial Auditorium.
Champlain has two more regular-season games on the road, but the cancellation of men's and women's soccer and men's basketball means Burlington has seen the last of the Beavers. ... Bob Tipson has coached the Beavers through 34 seasons and 702 wins, but his long-established reputation does not include nostalgia. ... Champlain College President Roger Perry and the college's board of trustees decided in June 2000 to cut intercollegiate athletics and use the ,000 saved to promote outdoor activities for students, such as rock climbing and snowboarding.
College Kids Help Make the Holidays Happier.
Students, faculty and staff at St. Michael's College are helping more than 70 local families enjoy a merry Christmas.
The school is taking part in the "Adopt-a-Family" program through the Baird Family Center. Groups like sports teams, housemates, and administrative departments spent the last couple of weeks shopping for items on families specific wish lists... buying things like toys for children and essentials like food and clothing.
"We actually just sent out an e-mail telling the whole school, faculty, staff, students that we were interested in starting it and we just wanted to see the interest that people had," says St. Michael's Student Abbie Bartlett. "So a lot of people wrote back to us and said that they were interested, and we actually got about 70 families that we were able to help out."
Nearly half of the 2,000 students, faculty and staff at St. Michael's contributed to the Adopt-a-Family effort this year.
Daniel M. Fogel will to Become UVM's 25th President.
Daniel M. Fogel today accepted an offer from the University of Vermont's Board of Trustees to become the institution's 25th president.
"This was truly a tough decision for the Board given the extraordinary strengths of the three terrific candidates we considered," said Chair Bruce Lisman. "But in the final analysis, we concluded that Daniel Fogel is the right person to provide the strong leadership that is so critical in order to achieve our strategic goals. Dr. Fogel has the unanimous, unqualified and enthusiastic support of the Board, and we are very excited about welcoming him to our university and to Vermont."
There will be an opportunity to welcome Fogel to the university community over coffee on Wednesday morning. Details will be announced later today.
Five faculty members and 40 staff members at St. Michael's
College have accepted buyouts to leave the Colchester campus.
The college expects the voluntary-separation program will save about ,000 in salaries, according to college spokesman Buff Lindau. Some of the 45 vacancies will be filled, she said. The college spends about million annually in salaries for 550 full- and part-time faculty and staff.
Lindau said the savings will help the Catholic, liberal-arts college boost its financial aid to students. She said the poor national economy has decreased the college's endowment while increasing student need for aid.
The St. Michael's endowment, much of which is tied to the stock market, dropped from .3 million in 2001 to .6 million this year, Lindau said. Financial aid costs have climbed from million to million in that time, she said. The college has about 2,000 undergraduate students.
More than half of those taking the voluntary-separation buyout work in the college's physical plant.
For population 25 years and over in Burlington,
Heavy lifting is not in Pat Brown's job description.
Still, there he was hauling boxes to dorm rooms at the University of Vermont, where freshmen were moving in for the first time.
Brown is UVM's director of student life. He took that title literally Friday, as he helped new students settle into the beginning of the next four years of their lives.
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UVM staff, faculty and students first helped new students move in about five years ago, said Annie Stevens, associate vice president for student affairs. Before that, Stevens said, moving-in day could be summed up in one word -- chaos.
She said parents drove and walked aimlessly on campus looking for their children's dorms, the bookstore, bank machines and food. "It was just whatever you could do on your own," Stevens said.
Now roughly 200 volunteers lift boxes and direct newcomers around campus.... ... Kelly and Dubuque, like all volunteers on moving-in day, wore light-green T-shirts alerting visitors that they were there to help. Dubuque said she offers to help parents and students move in because she has been on the other end of that with her own college-bound children.
Higher education in northern New England is more expensive
than in most of the country, but the region's students are more likely to graduate, according to a report being released today.
"Measuring Up 2002" was compiled by The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education of San Jose, Calif., a nonpartisan, nonprofit group.
The group evaluated states on five criteria: how well they prepare students for college; the percentage of residents enrolled in college; affordability; graduation rates; and benefits states derive from higher education.
The center gave New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont failing grades on affordability, a measure that compares average family incomes to higher education costs at community colleges, public universities and private colleges in each state.
Since the center's previous report in 2000, Vermont's grade fell from D-minus to F, while the other two states retained their Fs. All three states have increased financial aid since 2000, but other states have made more rapid improvements.
New England Culinary Institute
(NECI) is the culinary school that can provide you with a superior educational experience that trains the whole food service professional.
culinary education is a fine art - and few cooking schools practice the culinary arts as well as New England Culinary Institute. Our culinary school transforms your passion for food and cooking into a career, training future chefs, food service managers, and restaurant managers with an emphasis on learning by doing. Our cooking classes are small (averaging 7:1 student/teacher ratio), and our culinary school extends into the real world, where our restaurant, catering, and food service operations ensure you ample on-the-job training.
he most popular New England Culinary Institute program is our two-year A.O.S. Degree in Culinary Arts. We also offer a one-and-a-half year A.O.S. Degree in Food and Beverage Management, an upper-level one-and-a-half year Bachelor’s Degree and a ten-month Certificate Program.
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New Treatments for Coronary Artery Disease
Two new national clinical trials will make drug-coated stents - experimental treatment alternatives for patients at risk for restenosis or re-narrowing of an artery - available to coronary artery disease patients in the Vermont region. The University Invasive Cardiology Group - made up of interventional cardiologists at the University of Vermont and Fletcher Allen Health Care - is coordinating the study locally.
According to the American Heart Association, stent procedures represent 70 to 90 percent of cardiac procedures. A stent - a tiny piece of stainless steel shaped like a coil or spring - is often placed in order to open up a blocked artery in the heart. To place a coronary artery stent, a doctor threads a tiny balloon catheter carrying a collapsed stent through an artery in the leg and - once it reaches the location of the blockage - inflates the balloon. This expands the stent and locks it in place to ensure the artery stays open and normal blood flow resumes.
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Phi Delta Theta fraternity
is a high-ceilinged great room of the mansion at 439 College St. in Burlington. ... The chapter, founded in 1879, is down to 11 members -- just enough to fill the bedrooms.
Built in 1920 "by Phi's, for Phi's," according to chapter history, the house was to be used as a residence for student members and as a meeting place for alumni. The property is valued at about million and is in a prime location -- just across from UVM's Waterman building, right next to the president's residence, and a jaunt down the hill to Church Street.
Perhaps lack of interest in the fraternity might be traced to its 1997 decision to go "dry," meaning that no alcohol or illicit drugs are permitted inside. But Phi Delta Theta President Daryl Soares doesn't think so.
Interest in Greek organizations has been declining at campuses nationwide, he points out. At UVM, only 8 percent of students currently belong to a fraternity or sorority.
... Only the premises is actually dry, if we want to drink we go downtown," explains Soares, adding that the Vermont Pub and Brewery is a favorite hangout for the brothers.
Each semester, fraternity members pay dues and ,800 to live at the house. Not a bad deal, when compared with the annual charge of ,378 for room and board in a dormitory at UVM. Though the fee doesn't include food, it does cover parking in the large lot out back.
The guys have to fend for themselves in the kitchen, since they can't afford a cook. But there's never a line for the laundry room, which is free. Every bedroom is equipped with two DSLs for high-speed Internet access, though none of the brothers has to share this semester.
The .5 million, 40,000-square-foot Cashman Hall opens
officially this weekend as 124 sophomore and junior residents move in. About 10 resident assistants, foreign students and athletes already live there. College officials showed off the three-story hall Thursday afternoon.
Cashman defies the stereotype of buildings people use the gloomy term "dorm" to describe. The residence hall's copper roof sparkles from above the red-brick exterior. Plush chairs and couches surround a large gas fireplace in the cavernous main lounge. Designer furniture in purple and tan sits in a smaller lounge down the hall.
Michael Samara, the college's vice president for student affairs, said students pay more to live in Cashman than in other campus residence halls, but less than to live in the school's townhouse-style residences.
Students in Cashman live in suites of either four or eight single rooms. There's one bathroom in the suite for every four bedrooms. The suites feel like a cross between an apartment and a dorm room.
The Power of Three capital campaign has taken on new meaning
for Champlain College with the announcement of a powerful million gift from a donor who wishes to remain anonymous. The largest single gift in the College's history, this investment includes a million outright contribution and a dollar-for-dollar match for the next million raised in Champlain's capital campaign.
When the match has been completed, Champlain will have raised million-exceeding its original campaign goal by million. The additional investment will allow the College to increase funds available for scholarships, strengthen the College's technological capabilities, and enhance programming in the Student Life Complex.
The Power of Three is part of an ambitious million construction package that includes three new signature buildings: The Center for Global Business and Technology, The Student Life Complex, and The Main Street Suites. These new initiatives will house innovative technologies, explore international issues,
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The University of Vermont and its faculty's new union have asked
a mediator to help them with stalled contract talks.
The negotiations have broken down over such issues as salary increases and how faculty members are treated if they aren't
eligible for tenure.
The university and the union, United Academics, are working toward the first contract since the union was approved.
United Academics is demanding that U-V-M spend up to nine million dollars more on faculty salaries during the next three years.
The university is offering three million dollars over the same time period.
If the outside mediator can't help the two sides, the dispute might have to be settled by the Vermont Labor Relations Board.
Wednesday, 8/4/02
The University of Vermont spent nearly ,000 in its search
for a new president. Expenses ranged from consulting advice to gifts of glass bowls for the finalists.
The university provided a summary Wednesday of what it spent on the search.
Nearly half the money, ,665, went as a consulting fee to the Boston-based search firm Isaacson, Miller. The fee is 35 percent of Fogel's first-year salary of ,000.
Travel expenses for the 19-person search committee cost ,000. The whole committee flew to New York City once to screen candidates; a subcommittee of five or six members made additional trips.
Other expenses included ,188 for meals and receptions, ,645 for staff salaries and .29 for bowls made by Vermont's Simon Pearce glassworks. Each of the three finalists who visited campus was given a bowl.
Travel and tourism is big business in Vermont
and Champlain College knows it. That's why this fall they'll offer a new four-year bachelor's program in tourism and event management. ... Changes in the travel industry prompted this small, private college to revamp their curriculum, to include more destination marketing and management for travelers.
Peter Straube, Director of Champlain College's Tourism and Event Management Program, explains "[Tourists] wanna do something, they wanna learn something, they wanna explore in some way, and find out something about the local culture and heritage and the unique things that happen in that place."
Burlington is a great area for Champlain students to get their fingers wet in the tourism industry. They'll be set up with internships at businesses like the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce, where they'll get real life experience in their major.
Trinity College will Begin to Close September 1, 2000
Transition plans for closing Trinity College of Vermont beginning September 1, 2000, were announced today at a gathering of 100 students, faculty and staff. The decision was made Friday, July 7, at a scheduled meeting of the 20-member Board of Trustees and ratified in a vote of the executive council of the Vermont Sisters of Mercy who founded the College.
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Typically, businesses turn to colleges for continuing education
and recruiting. Champlain College hopes businesses consider the college for high-tech help.
The Burlington college is launching a service that offers businesses help with setting up online training programs and doing business over the Internet.
Champlain has worked with several corporate clients in the past and is now expanding the service, said Sarah Wilson director of business development at the college.
The service, called eSolutions, is intended to be a money maker for the college, she said. Several colleges across the country are offering similar services, including Syracuse University and University of Memphis, Wilson said.
Over the past decade Champlain College has developed an expertise in putting classes online, Wilson said. The college would like to take advantage of years of knowledge.
UVM considers cuts in Continuing Education
The University of Vermont will reorganize and shrink its Continuing Education Division this spring to halt a tide of red ink and
begin paying off a million deficit.
The division's dean stepped down abruptly this month, just as outside consultants' recommended the Continuing Education staff
be slashed nearly in half, eliminating 44 of 96 jobs. Eight of those positions are vacant. The division's million budget would be cut by at least million.
Interim Provost John Bramley said last week that he has not decided whether to implement all the consultants' recommendations,
but said "substantial" job cuts are coming to the division.
Continuing Education serves adult students across Vermont through satellite centers, video classrooms and the university's
evening and summer sessions. Its students include workers at IBM; teachers who take summer courses; and adult students
working on a college degree a few credits at a time.
UVM presidential candidates begin visits
The parade of finalists for president of the University of Vermont begins today
with the arrival of two candidates, Ralph Muller and Steven Poskanzer, on
campus.
Each of the four finalists will spend about a day and a half in Burlington, meeting
with groups of students, faculty and staff. Each will have a formal two-hour
interview with the board of trustees and will attend a 90-minute reception open to
all.
Trustees hope to select a president Saturday.
Here is the schedule of the public receptions.
-- WHERE, WHEN: Daily, 3:30-5 p.m., Billings Student Center.
-- TODAY: Ralph Muller, former president, University of Chicago Hospitals and Health System.
-- WEDNESDAY: Steven Poskanzer, interim president, State University of New York at New Paltz.
-- THURSDAY: John Fry, executive vice president, University of Pennsylvania
-- FRIDAY: Daniel Fogel, executive vice chancellor and provost, Louisiana State University.
UVM's neighbors continue to express concern over a plan to build
new dorms near the Redstone campus. Several neighbors turned out for a site visit Monday where city regulators heard about the University's plan to build housing for 400 students between the existing Redstone Dorms and the Gutterson Field House.
"If you think about it, South Prospect is really a residential street. A lot of young families, not where I have a condo, but many of these houses do. So it would be nice if they could bring it all in from East Avenue," says neighbor Elaine Little.
UVM officials say they're working with neighbors to address their concerns about traffic. " We've tried to take that into consideration throughout this design," says UVM Capital Planning Director Bob Vaughan. "We have relocated the parking on the other side of Gutterson, trying to balance out the traffic needs of the entire area."
The plan is a must-do for the University. Those 400 new beds will satisfy a legal deal between UVM and the City of Burlington.
Vermont colleges expect a steady flow of foreign students
even as concerns stemming from the Sept. 11 terrorism attacks might make it tougher for some students to obtain visas.
Vermont has a lot to lose if foreign students stop coming here. Last year, 949 foreign students brought an estimated million to Vermont in tuition and spending money. Many of those students pay their way without U.S. financial aid.
In the end, college officials expect the fallout from Sept. 11 will not keep foreign students away.
The University of Vermont has seen a 20 percent jump in applications from international students -- from 101 last year to 121 this year, college spokesman Jeff Wakefield said.
Colleges across Vermont bank on their own reputations and Vermont's reputation as a safe place to live in selling themselves overseas.
Vermont Student Assistance Corp.
(VSAC) was created in 1965 as a public nonprofit agency to help Vermonters who want to go to college or other training after high school.
VSAC provides grants, loans, scholarships, career and education planning, and general information about how you, or others in your family, can get the education you want.
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Vermont's first pharmacy school could start up next fall,
thanks to a million-dollar grant from the Vermont Economic Progress Council.
The council's executive director Fred Kenney says the plan is for the satellite campus of the Albany College of Pharmacy to open in a building that formerly housed Bombardier Capital in Colchester.
A college spokesman says the school is to open in September with about 80 students, and grow to 450 students during the next five years.
The school is also expected to generate 50 to 75 faculty and staff jobs. And it's hoped its graduates will help alleviate a chronic shortage of pharmacists in Vermont.
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Ward 1 Residence are Annoyed by UVM President's Announcement.
The buzz over Daniel Fogel's choice of a home strengthened to a mini-tempest this week, in the form of a legislative resolution in Montpelier and a letter from unhappy residents of Burlington's Ward 1. ... A rueful president-elect Fogel said Thursday he regretted that his desire for a private home has become the talk of the town -- but he stuck to the decision. ... That remark went off like a firecracker among residents of Ward 1, a mixed neighborhood of single-family homes and densely packed student apartments. Homeowners frequently complain about being awakened by students' late-night noise. ... Fogel said he mischaracterized his own reasons when he blamed student noise for his decision.
"I sandbagged myself with a red herring," he said. His real reasons, he said, are a desire for a little privacy in the few hours he will have away from the job. The first floor of Englesby House is used more than a hundred days a year for university events and entertaining.
Welch is urging colleges to use endowments to reduce tuition.
Rep. Peter Welch has won approval for legislation to require colleges and universities to report to Congress on how they are using their endowment funds to reduce tuition and other costs for middle-class students and their families.
The Vermont Democrat is a champion of increased federal aid for tuition loans and grants but says colleges, especially those with large endowments such as Middlebury College, need to take action to keep costs down. Middlebury College is Vermont's most highly endowed college, with a 2007 endowment valued at more than million.
But colleges bristle at any attempt by Congress to tell them how to spend their endowments. Welch's amendment was opposed by nine major associations of colleges and universities, which called his reporting requirement "unnecessary" and duplicative of reports they already have to file with the Internal Revenue Service.
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