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7,650 UVM undergraduates streaming back into Burlington this week
. Freshmen move into UVM dorms Friday and upperclassmen move into residence halls Sunday, to be followed by students returning to Champlain College and St. Michael's College next week. Classes at UVM start Monday.
The arrival of more than 10,000 students in the Burlington area is an annual ritual that pumps millions into the local economy. ... Meeting, greeting and feeding the deluge of students is a major task. The food service staff at UVM will dish out a total of 20,000 meals over the weekend, including 3,000 hamburgers, 3,000 chicken breasts and 5,000 soft drinks. ... Mark Lynch...pushes a grocery cart around Burlington's central neighborhoods almost every day collecting empties that tend to multiply once students return...worth more than . ... At Pearl Street Mobil gas sales jump to a night once the students return.... Towing revenue also increases because students have a habit of parking where they shouldn't....
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Applications jump at UVM
Nine thousand four hundred students have applied for admission to the University of Vermont in the fall, a startling 20 percent jump over this time last year -- and the most applicants to UVM since 1988. ... UVM intends to admit a freshman class about the size of this year's, 1,850. With more applications and the same number of places, UVM can be more selective in the students it chooses.
"This is good news," said Interim Provost John Bramley. "We've always had good students. Being more selective allows us to teach to the top level with more challenging material and higher expectations. That allows us to attract the best faculty. They are interested in teaching good students."
Being more selective also should improve UVM's ranking in national publications such as U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges," guides used by families to help choose colleges. Those ratings reward colleges for being more selective.
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Bowden has been Named Watershed Science Chair at UVM.
The University of Vermont today named Dr. William "Breck" Bowden the Robert and Genevieve Patrick Chair in Watershed Science and Planning in the university's School of Natural Resources (SNR). The endowed professorship, made possible by a .5 million gift from the estate of Genevieve Patrick, will provide a holistic watershed approach to study of ecosystem health that includes elements of water quality, hydrology, and land use planning.
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Freeman Foundation has Pledgeed Million to Educate and Recruit
Physicians for Vermont. University of Vermont College of Medicine Interim Dean John Evans, Ph.D., today announced that the Freeman Foundation has pledged approximately million over the next four years to encourage Vermont medical students to practice in Vermont. If successful, the gift could continue after the fourth year if the foundation’s board decides to extend it.
The gift, which will be administered by the University of Vermont (UVM) College of Medicine, establishes scholarships for medical students who will be designated as Freeman Vermont Medical Scholars. Both Vermonters and out-of-state students who show willingness to commit to practicing medicine in Vermont will be eligible. The gift also will fund programs that place students in rural areas during medical school and recruit physicians to rural areas.
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University of Vermont
(UVM) has set it's mission as, create, interpret, and share knowledge, to prepare our students to lead productive, responsible, and creative lives, and to promote the application of relevant knowledge to benefit the State of Vermont and society as a whole.
The primary purpose of The University of Vermont is to create and share knowledge. UVM prepares its students to live productive, responsible, and creative lives through a high quality, liberal education. As a research university, UVM endorses the intrinsic value of the creation of new knowledge and promotes the application of relevant knowledge to benefit a multi-dimensional and global society.
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A proposal to raise tuition at the University of Vermont
A proposal to raise tuition at the University of Vermont comes as other states consider hefty increases at their schools.
UVM officials want to raise tuition six percent for in-state students and five and a half percent for out-of-state students next
year.
In-state costs would go up to more than 16-thousand dollars a year -- including tuition, housing, and meals.
Out-of-state costs would rise to more than 29-thousand dollars.
Some other states -- including Maryland, Oregon and California -- have imposed mid-year tuition increases at their public colleges
and universities.
And the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers says several other states are looking at plans
to raise their rates next year.
Wednesday, 2/12/03
A University of Vermont police officer who handcuffed a female
student at gunpoint while searching for a male robbery suspect earlier this month has been suspended from active duty as the school pursues disciplinary action against him, a college spokesman said Friday.
The Nov. 6 incident began as an armed robbery with police searching for a black suspect, and ended with discussions on campus of racial profiling and how campus police treat minorities after an officer briefly detained the female student, who also is black.
Police said the robbery suspect was armed with a knife and demanded money from a student in a hallway of the Tupper Hall dormitory. The suspect remains at large.
UVM officials have declined to identify the officer, citing personnel issues and the ongoing disciplinary process. University spokesman Enrique Corredera said the officer is a "long-term employee" of the department. The officer had been reassigned to desk duty after the incident. He is being paid while on suspension.
Annual Pot Smoke Out Event is Under Attack at UVM.
It's almost become a rite of Spring at UVM. Every April 20th, students and others openly smoke marijuana in front of the school's library. ... Some students...believe the observance gives the school a black eye. That's why the student government association is trying to force the smokers out this year.
The S.G.A. is planning the schools first annual drug free Spring Fest to coincide with the 4/20 smoke out. Concerts, a rock climbing wall, and booths heralding the accomplishments of students will be set up in the space where the illegal activity usually takes place. ... Simply occupying the space, and changing the days tone may not be enough. Arrests at the pot smoking events have been few and far between in the past, that's because police have walked a fine line between maintaining order and upholding the law. But with a new event comes new expectations.
Applicants see UVM as short on academics.
The University of Vermont might be losing desirable applicants because of an image gap that hasn't narrowed in six years, according to a ,000 market study.
Most high school juniors and seniors who inquire about UVM say their highest priority is academic quality. They want a school with strong majors, one that will prepare them for a good job after graduation and provide a high-quality education for their dollars.
And UVM? Potential applicants most strongly associated the school not with academic quality but with an idyllic Vermont setting. ... The survey is a linchpin of UVM's efforts to improve marketing and persuade more high school students to apply. UVM asked the a market research firm to find out what high school juniors and seniors are looking for, what they think of UVM, and how the school could create a more appealing image.
Best Kept Secret Garden is UVM's hidden secret.
Tucked behind Shelburne Road in the thick of that strip's commercial center is a 95-acre farm that grows apples and eggplants, heathers and lilacs, junipers and perennials. The sign at the entrance to the farm reads "Best Kept Secret Garden," and it certainly is that.
... In January 1952, the university bought 66 acres of a dairy farm owned by Fortis and Sadie Abbott. UVM paid ,500 for the land, according to a history of the farm by Norman Pellett, professor emeritus.
Today, the land includes two small ponds, hundreds of ornamental trees, acres of apple orchards and a three-acre organic garden run by students, a project called Common Ground.
Sands and Matt Leonetti, a UVM senior who runs Common Ground, say that the field work has been an invaluable addition to their classroom studies. At the farm, they gain a firsthand understanding of concepts introduced in the class -- from insect control to soil nutrients to food distribution.
Daniel Fobel is talking his about future goals for UVM
Daniel Fogel began his university career as an English scholar and poet. He has been a full-time administrator since 1992, rising to chief operating office and chief academic officer at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
He spoke with Free Press reporter Candace Page by telephone about 90 minutes after his appointment as president of the University of Vermont was announced. ... (Some of his responses include) ... I'm not sure I've absorbed it all. I had impressed upon me more deeply the quality of the people at the university.
I've got to say, as pressing as the challenges are at UVM, I don't see that there is a five-alarm fire out there. ... The most pressing agenda items (include) the fiscal issues, enrollment management and the internal organizational culture. We need to make sure that everything is really geared up for the capital campaign in a way that tightly aligns with the strategic agenda of the university.
Daniel Fogel exhibited leadership qualities at an early age.
The story of the Henry James Review ... are the very ones the University of Vermont Board of Trustees saw in Fogel, LSU's executive vice chancellor, when they hired him last week as UVM's 25th president:
The ability to set a clear goal. An acute political sense and deep knowledge of the academic world. The instinct for wide consultation. A will to act. Commitment to hard work.
UVM trustees hope these qualities will enable Fogel to inspire and mobilize their campus. The school's dream of restored academic reputation and financial health rides on the outcome.
On his interview trip to Vermont in late January, Fogel had a contentious session with UVM students. They unsuccessfully recommended he not be hired.
Within an hour of his appointment Monday as UVM president, Fogel said his first priority would be starting over with the students. He spent nearly four hours with their leaders on Wednesday and emerged with their enthusiastic support.
Diane Gagnon is a matchmaker of sorts.
Her clients are credit cards left at the University of Vermont bookstore, skateboards ditched behind bushes on campus and even birth certificates found blowing in the wind.The UVM Police dispatcher thinks nothing of driving bundles of keys to local grocery stores where a quick scan of their frequent buyer tags can yield their owners' names.
She has called consulates to return passports. She has even sent wallets to out-of-state owners via certified mail. ... Diligence doesn't even start to describe Gagnon's passion for reunion. Every item turned into the lost and found at the UVM police is tagged with information about when and where it was found. Gagnon puts that information into a database and goes to work.
Prescription glasses and sunglasses are nearly impossible to trace back to their owners. Credit cards have usually been cancelled by the time Gagnon reaches their owners.
Driver Blames Fatal Crash on UVM Buprenorphine Clinic
Even lawyer Marc Eagle agrees that his client Theodore Pecor fell asleep at the wheel two years ago when Pecor was driving on Route 15 in Johnson.
... Police say Pecor dozed off, crossed the center line, and stayed there for ten seconds before his car slammed head on into another car, killing three IBMers heading to work.
Pecor pled innocent to vehicular manslaughter charges carrying a potential maximum of 90 years in prison. Police say Pecor tested positive for marijuana and heroin.
Pecor admits he used heroin in the days before the accident, but he also claims he received treatment for his addiction at the University of Vermont buprenorphine clinic less than two hours before the crash. He claims the doctors at the clinic let him drive away too soon. He says they were negligent, knowing that he could fall sleep.
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Following Saturday’s approval by the Board of Trustees to appoint
John Bramley as senior vice president and provost, University of Vermont President Daniel Mark Fogel today announced a set of appointments and searches for positions in his leadership team.
Fogel said an effective and talented team will help him advance the institutional imperatives he has identified, which are designed to move the university to the highest levels of academic quality and achievement. “The strategy I am announcing today will better serve the university and its strategic objectives,” he said.
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For a decade, the College of Engineering & Mathematics struggled
as the poor stepchild at the University of Vermont. Enrollments fell, budgets shrank, research awards lagged.
Now university leaders promise those days are ending. They pledge new spending on engineering and offer a vision of the college as an important contributor to Vermont's economic future.
... Fogel -- just 40 days into his presidency -- sees ways to expand the college's value to the local economy. He sketched a vision of new UVM centers of high-powered research in environmental engineering, biomedical engineering and computational science.
His ideas expand beyond recent recommendations for rejuvenating the college. A provost's task force of businesspeople and UVM administrators called for a broader undergraduate curriculum, stepped-up research and more collaboration with private industry.
Four Leading U.V.M. Presidential Candidates Announced
The University of Vermont's Presidential Search Committee announced its four leading candidates today, Dr. Daniel Fogel, John Anderson Fry, Ralph W. Muller and Steven G. Poskanzer.
"I am confident that our next president is among these exceptionally qualified, experienced leaders in higher education," said Bruce Lisman, chairman of UVM's Board of Trustees and chair of the Presidential Search Committee.
The search committee expects that candidates will visit UVM between January 22 and January 25, giving the university community the opportunity to learn about the candidates and provide the search committee with input. The Board of Trustees will actively participate in campus visits and is likely to engage in final deliberations beginning Saturday, January 26.
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Genevieve Patrick Gift Provides Landmark Support for UVM
The largest philanthropic gift from an individual in University of Vermont history will provide nearly million in support for Vermont student financial aid and health and environmental research. This major gift from the late Genevieve Patrick of Burlington will be put to immediate use helping to fund several areas of focus identified in the university's recent strategic planning process.
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Laura Fulwiler is one of the non-tenure track faculty members
whom the university calls "temporary." In fact, 65 percent of the College of Education and Social Services faculty is non-tenure track, and we have worked at UVM an average of 9.3 years. Hardly temporary. Not surprisingly, most of us who are non-tenure track faculty members are women (91 percent of instructors, 63 percent of researchers).
You might know us from our presence in Vermont schools and public agencies. Since our college prepares students to be competent professionals in Vermont communities, much of our work -- teaching, counseling, coordinating, writing, consulting, conducting research --takes place off-campus; some of us work with students in Vermont schools, while others prepare social workers in Vermont agencies.
LSU provost would face similar challenges at UVM
In 25 years at Louisiana State University Daniel Fogel has learned to make difficult decisions.
He's removed deans and rewarded favored departments at the expense of other programs. He's raised millions and coaxed faculty into accepting unpopular policies. He's ascended from English professor to executive vice chancellor and provost -- the No. 2 job at a school three times the size of Vermont's state university.
Now, after spending almost half his life in Baton Rouge, Fogel -- who turns 54 Monday -- is ready to pack his bags should he beat out the other three contenders for the presidency of the University of Vermont. ... If he lands the Vermont job, Fogel will have plenty to do. Trustees want the new president to increase private fund raising, bring financial stability and expand the applicant pool. The president will face pressure to avoid repeats of the UVM's hockey hazing scandal and hurry up with promised student housing.
Matthew Sheehan was a UVM police officer for 18-years
until he drew his gun on a student he mistakenly believed was a suspect in a robbery. UVM says he was fired only because he was a bad cop. Sheehan says he was the sacrificial lamb in a politically-motivated response to the school's minority students. The person I stopped, okay, was believed to have been the person involved in the robbery," Sheehan told the Vermont Labor Relations Board this morning, the latest chapter in his legal battle to get his job back as a UVM cop. It all started last winter on Main Street in Burlington when he pulled his gun on a person he claims fit the description of a robbery suspect -- described as a black male armed with a knife. But the alleged suspect turned out to be a totally innocent black female student. Sheehan claims he acted properly, but the incident triggered a firestorm of controversy and prompted UVM President Dan Fogel to offer public apologies to the school's minority students and promise more police training on racial profiling.
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Negotiations between U.V.M. and its new faculty union have broken
down over several issues, including salary increases and the treatment of faculty members who aren't eligible for tenure.
The union, United Academics, wants UVM to spend up to million more on faculty salaries during the next three years. The university is offering million over three years, the union said.
Tuesday, the two sides agreed to seek the help of an outside mediator. If those efforts fail, the contract dispute ultimately might be settled by the Vermont Labor Relations Board.
The faculty union does not have the right to strike.
University leaders long have acknowledged that UVM faculty salaries are too low and lag behind competitor schools.
Negotiators from the University of Vermont administration
and the United Academics union reached a tentative agreement at 6 p.m. Friday on a three-year contract, the first faculty contract at the 212- year-old institution.
... Education Professor David Shiman, a union negotiator, said the contract would be presented to faculty and voted on in early February.
He said the settlement called for a 16 percent salary increase spread over three years, and multiyear contracts for nontenured faculty working on one-year contracts.
... Faculty at the university voted in April 2001 to form a union and began negotiations on a contract more than a year ago.
The two sides declared an impasse in September and continued discussions with the help of a federal labor mediator.
In September, the union said it wanted the university to spend million more on faculty salaries over a three-year period; the university was offering only million then, according to the union.
New UVM president is movin' on up -- and out.
President-elect Daniel Fogel of the University of Vermont will be paid ,000 -- 50 percent more than the salary of his predecessor, Judith Ramaley.
An employment contract signed Friday also allows Fogel to become the first president in 44 years not to live at Englesby House, the official residence a few steps from the UVM campus.
Citing a desire for privacy and a concern that off-campus student noise could keep his family awake at night, Fogel said he and his wife are looking for a home elsewhere, although they have made no decision.
UVM will pay Fogel an ,800 a month housing allowance if he finds another home.
His pay will top Ramaley's ,000 by nearly ,000. The salary would rank him above the median paid to presidents of similar universities, according to a UVM analysis, and he would rank second this year among the heads of New England land grant schools.
Nurse-Midwifery Program Receives Scholarship Fund
Until last year, Vermonters seeking to become certified nurse-midwives had to go out of state to earn their degree. But thanks to a collaborative program developed by the University of Vermont and the University of Rhode Island, this degree is now available in Vermont. Launched one year ago at UVM, this master's level program has just received ,500 from the Freeman Foundation to establish a scholarship fund.
The Claire Lintilhac Nurse-Midwifery Scholarship is named in honor of the esteemed nurse-midwife and Vermont philanthropist whose friendship with the Freeman family began when they were both living in China in the 1920s.
Over the next six years, the scholarship program will provide tuition support to Vermonters enrolled in the nurse-midwifery degree program and cover much of the costs for the program's distance-learning component. -- For more info, see permanent link below.
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one of UVM's undergrad dorms will open a floor exclusively to gay
and lesbian students, as well as others.
The whole idea came about when a gay male student asked to live with a straight female friend. That's when student government representatives decided the rules need to change.
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Students can apply now to Residential Life to live on this new floor, and starting next fall, one of the under-classmen residence halls will be a home to this new support community.
Basically, any student that's interested has to sign a contract identifying with one of seven groups: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex and allies.
The floor is not designed to accommodate heterosexual couples. Hughes says, "The goal is not for females and males to live together as a couple.
President Daniel Fogel shuffled the University of Vermont's
leadership Monday, creating at least four new high-level jobs to focus on the university's finance, diversity, government relations and faculty affairs.
The changes follow hard on the heels of Fogel's appointment of a chief operating officer, Provost John Bramley.
They further imprint the new president's stamp as he prepares to shift his focus from internal operations to fund raising, a job he has said will consume at least half his time.
Fogel described the reorganization as key to raising UVM's "competitive metabolism," his phrase for the drive to increase UVM's stature in the ranks of the best small research universities.
Recently, in reference to the impasse concerning negotiations
between the faculty and administration at the University of Vermont, Provost John Bramley insisted that he and his fellow senior administrators cannot tolerate traditional faculty governance regarding policy without the "flexibility to change" in a manner that is exercised by "any industry in this competitive world."
There is a fundamental and very disturbing problem with that statement: universities are not industries, regardless of the way that Dr. Bramley would like to characterize them. Reducing the perception of a university to a mere business or corporate entity is, unfortunately, a popular trend among university administrators, who increasingly perceive themselves as CEOs, rather than senior faculty members.
The issue at UVM is not about flexibility; it's about centralization of control, which is a very sad trend in American academia that was popularized by the very controversial former president of Boston University, John Silber.
Students shell out big bucks for books
With about of college textbooks in his arms, Gelfenbein participated in the book-buying ritual that precedes all college semesters, in Vermont and nationwide. Classes for 9,000 UVM students resumed Tuesday.
The bookstore anticipates and accommodates this tidal wave of returning students by expanding hours, adding 20 temporary employees and tripling the number of cash
registers. ... About 900 students like freshman Sam Ferguson of Cumberland, Maine, ordered their books online in advance. All he had to do on Tuesday was pick up a box of pre-packed
books bearing his name. That and take a some good-natured abuse from Menninger as he ran Ferguson's combination ID and debit card through the register.
The National Institute of Health finds that 1400 students die
each year from alcohol related injuries including car crashes. And up to 70-thousand sexual assaults on campus involve alcohol. The report on college drinking will be sent to all colleges in the country.
The University of Vermont began tackling the problem 6 years ago with the help of a federal grant. Now they are seeing some success. Back in 1998 there were 680 students in trouble for drugs and alcohol. Last year that number dropped to 540. Administrators expect even fewer cases this year.
But UVM officials are troubled by the fact that more women are found with alcohol. Also, the blood alcohol level of those caught is increasing.
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The Sisters of Mercy have signed a purchase agreement
to sell the Trinity College campus to the University of Vermont.
The 14-million dollar deal gets the Sisters out from under, and offers the University some much needed space.
... The .3 million dollar sale gives UVM a little elbow room. 17 buildings and 21 acres are the physical part of the deal, but the most important aspect of the deal is the opportunity for the University to grow.
"It is a logical and sensible use of the property," UVM President Daniel Fogel says, "and moreover a once in a century opportunity for the University of Vermont."
The University has not come up with a plan for using the parcel, but does envision several possible uses.
Among the most likely are relocating several administrative offices and classrooms.
UVM already leases 5 dorms from trinity, and could use 4 others for graduate or medical students.
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The University of Vermont agreed Monday to buy the entire 21-acre
campus of defunct Trinity College -- six office/classroom buildings, five dormitories, four cottages, an empty library and a nuns' home.
UVM will pay .3 million.
The purchase is the latest in a series of major financial investments in the future at UVM, as the student body grows, research spending climbs and departments clamor for better space.
"We see this as an essential investment in excellence," President Daniel Fogel said of the small campus down Colchester Avenue from the UVM Green.
He said Trinity could provide space for modest growth in the student body in coming decades. ... UVM undergraduate enrollment hit 7,601 this fall, the most students since 1993. Earlier this year, the university floated a million bond issue -- its largest ever -- to fund a dozen projects, including a new residence hall and on-campus apartments.
The University of Vermont and its faculty union
have reached an impasse on contract negotiations. After nine months of talks, the two sides still can't agree on pay and benefits. The United Academics Union represents about 600 UVM faculty members. It says UVM professors are among the lowest paid public university teachers in the country and that may force some out, or prevent other quality teachers from joining UVM's faculty.
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The UVM administration says its proposal of three percent raises per year over the next three years is reasonable given current economic conditions. A federal mediator will work with both sides to try to reach an agreement. If all else fails, the Vermont Labor Relations Board will pick what it considers the best offer on the table to stand as the final contract. The faculty cannot strike because they are considered state employees.
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The University of Vermont and the city of Burlington held
a joint press conference today at Contois Auditorium in Burlington to both acknowledge the progress that has been made in addressing off-campus student behavior and quality of life issues in recent years and to announce a series of new steps the city and university will be taking in these areas. Burlington Mayor Peter Clavelle and UVM President Dan Fogel made remarks, as did John Badaracco, president of UVM’s Student Government Association, and Shawna Wells, SGA vice president. (Backup copy of text available)
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The University of Vermont Board of Trustees today agreed to sign
a purchase and sale agreement with Trinity College of Vermont in the amount of .3 million for the college’s entire campus property, located on Colchester Avenue in Burlington. The Trinity College Board of Trustees and the leadership team of the Sisters of Mercy of Vermont, sponsors of the college since 1925, ratified this action following the decision by the UVM Board. The final closing date has not been scheduled.
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The University of Vermont cut 20 positions Thursday
from its Continuing Education Division to bring costs in the deficit-ridden program under control.
Another 16 positions in the department will be eliminated through attrition, meaning the division will lose more than a third of its 95-person work force.
UVM Interim Provost John Bramley said the layoffs would save the division more than million and would help the program focus more closely on Vermonters. ... Continuing Education runs UVM's summer and evening courses, distance-learning programs and professional, non-credit courses and workshops. Most of what the public sees of the division -- its summer and evening programs, in particular, will remain unchanged, said Carol Vallett, academic programs manager for the division. The summer course catalog is printed and people are enrolling, and the fall catalog is already final, she said.
The University of Vermont has begun disciplinary proceedings
against a campus police officer who detained a minority student at gunpoint.
The officer was searching for a robbery suspect, who was described as a black male. The officer briefly detained and then
handcuffed a black female.
UVM President Daniel Fogel says an investigation into the November 6th incident shows that serious mistakes were made.
University officials haven't identified the officer or the woman who was detained.
No one has been arrested in connection with the robbery in a university dormitory.
Fogel is planning to public meeting for December second to answer questions and listen to students' concerns.
Friday, 11/22/02
The University of Vermont has shed its party school image.
The school is no longer listed in the annual Princeton Review ranking as one of the top 20 party schools in the country.
In the latest rankings released today, U-V-M is listed as the top school for - quote "Birkenstock wearing, tree-hugging,
clove-smoking vegetarians."
In recent years, U-V-M has been ranked as one of 20 schools with the best reputations for partying. UVM officials have made it a top
priority to change that image.
Although the school is no longer known as a party school, it has not entirely cleaned up its act.
The school is ranked eighth for students' use of marijuana.
Tuesday, 8/20/02
The University of Vermont has shed its party school image.
For the first time in 11 years, UVM was not listed among the top 20 party schools in the country in the annual Princeton Review rankings of colleges, which was released Tuesday.
UVM officials, eager to see the school's reputation change, were relieved UVM finally was absent from the list.
... Instead, UVM was ranked as the top school for "Birkenstock wearing, tree-hugging, clove-smoking vegetarians."
The ranking is based on a number of categories, including liberal politics; a high level of drug use on campus; students that are not very religious; a high acceptance of the gay community on campus; and low popularity scores for student government, said Robert Franek, the Princeton Review's editorial director.
... UVM was ranked 11th for students' use of marijuana this year.
The University of Vermont has sold Coca-Cola
near-exclusive rights to quench UVM students' thirst in return for .3 million over 10 years, the university revealed Friday.
The deal gives Coke the right to provide all the soft drinks, bottled water, packaged juices and sports drinks sold in vending machines and campus dining rooms. That's at least 50,000 cases of bottled drinks a year.
University Vice President Tom Gustafson said UVM will channel the yearly payments into student-related spending.
"The lion's share will go into financial aid," he said. "I think we got an excellent arrangement and I think Coke feels they did too."
Contracts like the one between UVM and Coke have become standard in higher education. The Vermont State Colleges and Middlebury College are Pepsi country. VSC's deal is worth ,000 over seven years; Middlebury declined to reveal the value of its contract. St. Michael's College has a 10-year, million contract with Coke.
The University of Vermont hopes to deter students' annual 4-20
marijuana smoke-in -- by holding a rock concert.
A student group is spending ,000 to create a three-day drug- and alcohol-free celebration of spring to divert students from gathering to smoke pot. "Spring Fest" will culminate Saturday in an afternoon of music outside Bailey-Howe Library.
Student leaders and administrators say the university could no longer ignore the annual mass dope-smoking because it has tarnished the school's image with lawmakers, alumni and private donors.
UVM's so-called 420 ritual has attracted a growing crowd since it began in the mid-1990s as a protest of marijuana laws. The event isn't unique to UVM -- it is observed, spottily, from coast to coast.
At least 1,500 people gathered at UVM last year. Police watched but did not interfere.
Only UVM students and a limited number of their guests will be admitted to Saturday's concert. Police and a private security service will patrol the gathering to deter students from lighting up.
The University of Vermont is going to buy the entire campus
of the now-closed Trinity College.
The Trinity Board of Trustees today approved the sale for 14.3 million dollars.
Trinity closed in 2000 after years of financial troubles.
Trinity President Jacqueline Kielich says she and the trustees are pleased the 21 acres and 17 buildings will remain in the world of higher education.
Trinity College was opened by the Sisters of Mercy religious order in 1925.
UVM's plans are still being made, but the buildings will be available to house offices during renovations of other university
properties.
No closing date for the deal has been set.
Monday, 9/30/02
The University of Vermont is still reeling from accusations
of racial profiling on campus.
Last month, campus police detained a student who was misidentified as an armed robbery suspect -- some say because she was black. But now UVM is working to improve the racial climate on campus.
UVM held a town meeting on the issue.
President Daniel Fogel served as a sounding board for students concerns.
President Fogel called it a disturbing and demoralizing incident, but also a starting point for more diversity on campus.
Since November 6th, there have been a number of changes.
The officer involved in the incident was suspended.
A one-hundred page investigation was released.
Today, Fogel announced the creation of a team of police professionals from as far away as California to access the police role on campus.
Monday, 12/2/02
The University of Vermont school newspaper, The Cynic,
unofficially surveyed some students. Respondents report drinking alcohol at least twice a week and 57% admit trying drugs like heroin, cocaine and ecstacy. The newspaper polled 180 students, just a sample of the 7200 undergraduates on campus.
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The University of Vermont today furthered its commitment
to comprehensive "environmental" education and research, announcing a .5 million gift to relocate the renowned Institute for Ecological Economics to the University of Vermont from its decade-long home at the University of Maryland. The enabling gift, the third largest philanthropic contribution in UVM's 210-year history, was made by Lulie and Gordon Gund of Princeton, N.J., and their sons, Grant '91 and Zachary '93. The Institute will be known as The Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at The University of Vermont. (permanent link)
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The University of Vermont will ask the legislature
for a percent budget increase -- about million -- for next year, despite the economic troubles that have led to budget-cutting across state government.
The school's board of trustees agreed Saturday to make the .3 million budget request.
... Even if UVM wins the additional money, Fogel said, the state's share of the university budget will continue to decline, since spending at UVM is rising faster than 3 percent a year.
Trustee Kathleen Hoyt, who is also administration secretary for Gov. Howard Dean, reminded trustees that UVM and the Vermont State Colleges have been protected from budget cuts that hit state agencies earlier this year.
She also reminded trustees that state revenue estimates have declined million in 18 months. State agencies have been asked to prepare budgets for next year that assume no additional spending -- or 5 percent less spending.
The University of Vermont will create an honors college
by fall 2003 as part of its effort to attract and keep academically talented students.
President Daniel Fogel told a board of trustees meeting that the honors "college" -- a set of special courses for freshmen and sophomores, not a separate unit of UVM -- will be visible evidence of the university's "unshakable focus on academic excellence."
While UVM has succeeded in boosting the number of students who apply for admission, the school wants more of the very best students. The 2-year-old Green-and-Gold program, for example, offers full scholarships to the top student from each Vermont high school.
More and more universities are launching honors colleges, which offer small, intellectually demanding courses and more opportunities for students and professors to work together in and out of the classroom.
The University of Vermont will lead a nationwide effort
to improve public education for the most disadvantaged students -- those with disabilities and students considered "at risk." UVM launches the program this fall, thanks to a one-million dollar gift.
Many people might not see the connection between a university like UVM and the public schools. But college is where the teachers, school principals and superintendents come from.
"We have to change the way we educate school leaders," UVM president Daniel Fogel said while announcing a one-million dollar gift from a UVM alumni couple who wanted to remain anonymous. The money will establish a national think tank of professors from seven universities, led by UVM -- to be called the National Institute for Leadership, Disability and Students Placed at Risk. The participating institutions are the universities of Connecticut, Illinois, Minnesota, Utah and Oregon, and Sam Houston State University in Texas.
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The University of Vermont will offer late-night shuttle bus
service between downtown and campus this semester as part of an effort to discourage noise on streets frequented by loud students tottering home after last call.
The bus service was announced Friday as part of a joint city-university initiative to improve Burlington's quality of life. Sitting side by side at City Hall, Burlington Mayor Peter Clavelle and University of Vermont President Daniel Fogel vowed to reduce student noise, alcohol abuse and rowdy parties.
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Even before Fogel unpacked his suitcases, neighborhood issues pulled him into the headlines because the academic leader announced he would not live at the president's house on College Street. He made the decision partly because he'd been told student noise was a problem. ... As a pilot project, UVM will run a shuttle route between campus and downtown until 2:30 a.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.
Thousands of students are descending on college
campuses this weekend. In Burlington the University of Vermont welcomes the largest incoming class in recent memory -- 1900 freshmen.
Ryan Killoy is lucky. Her parents drove her from home in Massachusetts to UVM, where she joins the class of '07. Already the incoming students are leaving their mark. As her dad muscles her stuff up the stairs at the dorm she drew for living quarters, there's a surprise waiting. The room is tiny, a double which has been converted into a triple. Ry met her two room mates at an orientation in June and the three agreed to live together, but expected a large triple room. They are part of the largest UVM class in twenty years -- and now they're learning about UVM's student housing crunch.
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Unionized Service and Maintenance employees at UVM
have been working without a contract for four months, and Saturday their frustration bubbled over into a rally and calls for UVM to settle up.
325 workers represented by the United Electrical Workers Local 267 are some of the lowest-paid employees at UVM. Three different groups staged marches to Englesby House, the UVM president's residence -- coupled with criticism that UVM president Dan Fogel decided not to live there in favor of his own private home in Colchester.
... In talks that began last April and continued through the end of the last contract which expired June 30, UVM offered between eleven and twelve percent raises over three years. Both sides declared impasse last month and now the labor dispute moves to fact-finding. The rally was intended to budge UVM toward a better offer.
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University dares to hope the bad times are over.
As UVM prepares to choose a new president this week, hope is budding on campus that, just maybe, the worst of the bad news might be over.
Positive publicity in the New York Times is just one item on a good news list that runs from higher student enrollment to the basketball team's 12-game winning streak.
More important, there's a sense the front office under Interim President Edwin Colodny is taking action after years of drift under previous presidents.
The four presidential finalists will find that UVM's fundamental challenges remain: Chronic shortages of cash; organizational complexity and bitter internal politics; academic ambitions bigger than Vermont's ability to fund; a faculty and staff weary of changes in leadership.
These problems and a sense of missed opportunities in the 1990s -- coupled with recent, more hopeful developments -- explain why people on and off campus believe selection of UVM's 28th president represents a critical turning point.
University of Vermont is beginning some major construction
work this summer, representing the very first parts of president Dan Fogel's ten-year plan to expand and improve the university.
On a sultry-hot day, a committee of the UVM board of trustees toured the campus in the comfort of an air conditioned bus. The members got their first look at the initial work that will proceed in phases over the next decade.
... The first phase of the UVM president's ten-year plan includes the demolition of the old World War Two-era University Heights housing. The university hired Recycle North to do the demolition in two phases, saving the fixtures for re-use elsewhere.
This project is one of the larger, at a preliminary estimate of -million. The new housing will hold at least 800 students, making possible Fogel's plan to increase enrollment. A few hundred feet away, part of the Redstone campus has become a construction zone. Work proceeds on the installation of an underground steam pipe to carry heat for the Catamount apartments,
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University of Vermont is continuing its crackdown
on the annual marijuana smoking event known as 4/20.
About 40 students gathered on the steps of the Bailey Howe library yesterday just after four, but so did six campus police
officers.
The event broke up at about 4:30 p.m. without incident.
The event is named 4/20 because that is the police code for marijuana.
It is held on April 20th at 4:20 in the afternoon.
In previous years the event has drawn large crowds and national attention
UVM police say this was the quietest event in five years.
Monday, 4/21/03
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University of Vermont officials signed legal papers Monday
for the purchase of Trinity College.
The university entered a sale agreement in September to acquire the Trinity College campus for .3 million. The small Catholic college founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1925 shut down in 2000 after years of climbing debt.
UVM President Daniel Fogel said in a news release that the university will use the former Trinity campus for housing, classrooms, office space and other needs. Fogel said the university will complete plans for use of the property now that the deal is finalized.
Sister Jacqueline Marie Kieslich, the last president of Trinity College, could not be reached for comment Monday.
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University of Vermont President Daniel Fogel announced Friday
he will spend at least half his time raising money for UVM in the next several years, and will not be as visible on campus as some past presidents.
He then asked trustees to immediately appoint Interim Provost John Bramley as permanent provost and senior vice president, bypassing the search for candidates called for by university procedures.
Bramley, Fogel said, will serve as the school's chief operating officer and will represent Fogel on campus during his frequent absences.
"I have concluded the university will realize its highest return on investment if I devote something on the order of at least half my time to the (fund-raising) campaign in the next few years," Fogel told the university's board of trustees. UVM launched a million capital campaign last year and Fogel has said he would like to surpass that goal.
University of Vermont President Daniel Fogel announced Monday
several initiatives aimed at making the campus more comfortable for minorities in response to a UVM police officer's wrongful detention at gunpoint of a black student last month.
Fogel said in a campuswide e-mail and at a forum later in the day that he has put together a team of law-enforcement professionals who will review last month's incident and make recommendations on how to avoid a similar event in the future. The experts include the heads of the police departments at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Illinois, as well as former South Burlington Police Chief Brian Searles.
Fogel added at the forum that he is assembling a group to look at broader diversity issues on campus. That group will be formally announced around Christmas, he said. He also said a black expert in diversity training for police is coming to campus in January to work with the UVM Police Department.
University of Vermont scientists and engineers are collaborating
to help farmers deal with a persistent problem: Water pollution caused by liquid runoff from barns and milking parlors.
With ,000 in research grants and a team of construction workers, academics are building a model wetlands purification system at the UVM farm on Spear Street, formally known as the Paul Miller Research Center.
Bulldozers have dug four shallow troughs, covering about a quarter acre. When complete next summer the system will treat more than 500 gallons of runoff a day from the milking parlor and dairy barn at the research farm wedged between the Burlington Country Club and Interstate 89.
University of Vermont scrapped plans for a 900-car parking garage
Friday and cut a student apartment project from 400 beds to 200. The trouble was money.
Instead, UVM will provide more student housing by leasing more space at defunct Trinity College and converting some dormitory rooms from singles to doubles.
University officials also revealed they are negotiating with the city of Winooski to lease student apartments in the city's proposed downtown redevelopment project.
Estimates of the garage's cost had swollen from million to million and UVM's financing plans no longer worked, a university vice president said. ... Without the garage, UVM had to downsize the apartment project so that tenants' cars would fit in nearby surface parking. Work on the Redstone Apartments, which will be
owned by the university, is scheduled to begin this summer. ... City Hall and UVM have a formal agreement that UVM will provide 400 more beds, but the city appeared ready to accept changes in how those beds will be created.
UVM faculty skeptical about presidential finalists
Three of the four candidates for University of Vermont president will face an extra hurdle when they visit campus next week. Each must convince skeptical faculty that he understands and values the scholarly heart of a university, despite his relative shortage of classroom experience. ... Although the faculty has no formal vote in selecting the president, UVM's board of trustees would take a risk in selecting a candidate disliked by the faculty. ... Universities traditionally have chosen scholars as their leaders. Some began making different choices as the job of a university president focused more on balancing budgets, wooing private donations and dealing with legislators. These days, college presidents include corporate lawyers, real estate executives and former politicians.
UVM faculty to question presidential candidates
Faculty members at the University of Vermont asked Friday for a chance to publicly question the finalists for UVM's presidency, and the presidential search committee agreed.
The four men will make whirlwind appearances on campus next week. Each candidate will appear at what had been billed as a public reception, to make a brief statement and then mingle informally with the crowd. Faculty thought that wasn't sufficient. ... The request from faculty members reflects a deeper concern of some: that the faculty's opinions of the candidates won't be taken seriously.
Education professor Deborah Hunter noted that the last candidate ends his appearance at 5 p.m. Friday. The search committee has asked for faculty and staff feedback by 9 that night. The board of trustees will meet Saturday morning to choose a president.
UVM finalist focuses on fund-raising
Why settle for a million goal in the University of Vermont's new fund-raising campaign? That's what presidential finalist
Daniel Fogel, executive vice chancellor of Louisiana State University, asked a series of campus meetings Friday.
"I want to blow that thing up to million, half a billion," he told one faculty group. "I think the support is out there."
Fogel repeatedly laid out a four-point plan for addressing UVM's chronic shortage of money, defended post-tenure review of
professors, and said he'd bring a "high sense of urgency" to increasing staff and faculty salaries.
Fogel's visit completed the parade of three presidential finalists. Trustees will begin debating their choice today. Ralph Muller, former president of the University of Chicago Hospitals, and Steven Poskanzer, interim president of SUNY-New Paltz, also are in the running. A fourth finalist withdrew.
UVM has Updated their Same-sex Partner Benefits Policy.
In light of Vermont's new civil union law, the university of Vermont has changed its policies to grant benefits to employees' same-sex partners more consistently with the way those benefits are granted to married employees' spouses.
The legislation gives same-sex couples a choice as to whether or not to enter into a legal agreement, which obligates them to the fiscal responsibilities of their life partner as in marriage. Because healthcare falls within this scope, UVM will soon require that employees currently claiming spousal benefits for their same-sex partners show certification that they have entered into a civil union agreement.
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UVM high in drug referrals
The University of Vermont sends more students to campus judicial review for drug violations than any other four-year college in the country, according to a ranking of government numbers to be published today in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The same ranking showed UVM is second when it comes to referring liquor violations to campus judicial review. In both cases,
UVM far outpaces much larger schools.
The numbers were part of a campus crime story posted Thursday at The Chronicle's Web site. The national weekly compiled
rankings from a data base of numbers that colleges are required by law to provide to the U.S. Department of Education. A total of 6,269 institutions reported information.
University leaders viewed the story as vindication of their enforcement efforts and not a sign that UVM has a disproportionately large drinking and drug problem.
UVM is Imposing Student Conduct Standards.
Students are flocking into the Burlington area as the new school year opens next week. The University of Vermont with nearly eight-thousand undergraduates has the greatest impact on neighborhoods, and UVM students will find a far more aggressive stance against rowdy behavior than was the case last year.
Mayor Peter Clavelle and newly inaugurated UVM president Dan Fogel have met several times and earlier this summer established a working town-gown relationship that did not always exist before.
... Now the two leaders have forged an agreement, dealing especially with neighborhoods near the campus. Two months ago UVM agreed to assign its own police department to enforce city ordinances like noise and open containers. At Friday's meeting, the deputy chiefs of both departments said they will coordinate joint patrols of student neighborhoods. And students will be held accountable for bad conduct.
Fogel said UVM will follow up on students who get into trouble off campus.
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UVM is looking at tuition increases.
Vermont students who live on campus face a increase in the price of tuition, room, board and fees at the University of
Vermont next year. The 4.3 percent increase would take the cost of a year at UVM above ,000.
For out-of-state students, UVM projects the bill will be ,070 higher, a 4 percent increase, for a total of ,891.
The proposed increases are needed to balance UVM's budget, but won't be approved by the board of trustees until May. The
dollar figures could change slightly before then.
Prices are expected to rise about the same percentage at the Vermont State Colleges next year, according to Chancellor
Robert Clarke. The state's two most prominent private schools, Middlebury and St. Michael's colleges, will raise prices 4.7
percent and 5.6 percent, respectively.
UVM is Suffering from a Budget Crisis.
Trustees at the University of Vermont -- are trying to figure out what to do about a serious budget crisis -- a three-and-a-half million dollar problem. And -- it looks as if they may cut dozens of faculty and staff -- NewsChannel 5's Collin Parker tonight -- on why many -- worry the cuts may go -too- deep.
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UVM offspring enjoy free ride
Almost one in eight of the in-state undergraduates at the University of Vermont last fall paid no tuition because one or both parents work at UVM or the Vermont State Colleges.
UVM waived its ,040 tuition for 333 students -- nearly 12 percent of the Vermonters who enrolled. The tuition waiver is a fringe benefit for the school's 2,700 full-time employees.
On paper, that benefit cost the university .7 million in tuition this year.
While tuition assistance is common in the academic world, UVM's benefit for the children of employees is financially more generous than the state universities of Maine, New Hampshire, New York or Massachusetts.
UVM policymakers say the offer helps them hire and retain employees, even in jobs where UVM pays lower salaries than the private sector.
UVM Sees Largest Increase in Applications Since 1985
Applications to the University of Vermont have jumped 20 percent, the largest single year increase since 1985, the first year of the Public Ivy era.
The university has received 9,400 applications, the most since 1988, up from 7,800 in 2001. The 2001 figure also represented a substantial increase - the highest in the previous five years. Applications are up from both Vermont and out-of-state applicants.
"An admissions director would see a 5 percent increase in applications as a terrific sign of progress," said Don Honeman, UVM's director of admissions and financial aid. "Clearly we're on the right track - both in the university's programmatic direction and in the way we're communicating with applicants."
A number of factors may explain the jump in application volume, Honeman said. Chief among them is the consistent emphasis the university has placed on academic quality over the last few years.
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UVM Students showed lack of interest in UVM presidency.
Upstairs, a buzzing crowd encircled the man chosen to be president of the University of Vermont. Downstairs Wednesday, about 50 students sat in the Billings Student Center cafeteria, sipping coffee and trying to remember Daniel Fogel's name. ... "I'm not very interested in it," said freshman Doug Abernethy of the presidential search.
If apathy were on the cafeteria menu downstairs, at least a half-dozen students did attend the reception upstairs. "I was really surprised; I expected to see a lot more students here," said Jennifer Lipman, a junior. She and three classmates described Fogel as approachable, receptive and qualified for the task ahead.
In Lipman's view Fogel's first job is to strengthen UVM's reputation. "It's kind of important to graduate from a university that has a good name, especially in this economy."
UVM to Admit Students More Selectively
After a 20 percent increase in applications, the University of Vermont is accepting students more selectively this year than it has in more than a decade. Acceptance letters will be mailed Friday, March 15.
The acceptance rate will decrease by 10 percentage points compared with the average for most of the 1990s to about 70 percent, a significant one-year change. Officials expect to enroll a first year class of between 1,800 and 1,825 students. A total of 9,802 students applied to UVM this year, the most since 1988.
Increasing the quality of the institution and of incoming students has also been a priority for many stakeholders in the state, Bramley noted.
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UVM Women’s Center Receives Major Federal Grant
to Combat Violence Against Woman. The Women’s Center at the University of Vermont has received a ,324 grant to bring campus and community organizations together in advocacy and education concerning sexual assault. UVM was among only 20 institutions out of 120 applicants to receive the two-year funding, which requires colleges and universities to develop partnerships with off-campus, nonprofit victim advocacy organizations and to strengthen prevention programs on campus.
In keeping with the grant’s key requirements, the Women’s Center will create a campus-based advocacy program and develop an Interdisciplinary Coordinated Response Team comprised of campus and community organizations. The Women’s Center will serve as a confidential and safe place providing survivors with full information about their criminal justice and service options, including internal administrative proceedings.
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UVMers want variety of strengths in new leader.
People across the University of Vermont community said Saturday they were hopeful UVM has found the strong leader it needs in the slate of four finalists announced Friday.
But beyond that optimism -- and a promise to greet candidates with an open mind when they visit later this month -- there was little consensus on which strengths will be most important in the new president.
Faculty, students, alumni, parents and state leaders yearn to restore UVM to the stature it had in its days as a "public ivy" known for its excellent undergraduate education. They said they were impressed with the candidates because all held top jobs at prestigious institutions much larger than UVM.
But they defined "leadership" in different ways. They disagreed on the most urgent priorities facing UVM. And they disagreed on the relative importance of a scholarly background for a university president.
When Dan Fogel took over as UVM's new president last summer
, the campus welcomed him as the leader it had lacked through several years of declining fortunes. Now Fogel is turning UVM on a brand new course with a long-range plan to grow the university out of its financial doldrums.
Last month he came out with a vision statement that won an endorsement from his own boss, the UVM board of trustees. But will Dan Fogel's plan fly in a state that scrutinizes, and sometimes blocks, major projects? This is an important question because the ten-year plan maps out significant changes from UVM's status quo.
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