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STEM Internships Get CCV Students Out In Nature and Into Laboratories
David Gullerat grew up doing what young country kids do: roaming the fields and meadows around his home looking at bugs and crayfish, canoeing and fishing on a local lake, and generally just exploring what nature had to offer.
A Dogged Devotion to Community Pays Off For CCV Rutland Students and Vermont K9s
As it turns out, the Rutland area is full of dog people. At least that’s what students in Rosalie Fox’s Introduction to Sociology course found out from their service learning project this semester.
It's Not What You've Done, It's What You've Learned
The adage goes: if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. And that’s what most people would think when they hear that it’s possible to earn thousands of dollars’ worth of college credits in fifteen weeks’ time for about $1,000. But they’d be wrong.
Help On All Fronts: Veteran Services at CCV
It’s just past one o’clock on Tuesday afternoon at CCV Newport. Students are at work in the Learning Center, instructors are beginning the day’s lessons, and staff goes about handling the logistics of day-to-day life at the College. This would be a typical day at the center, save for what’s ...
CCV Recognizes Student Leaders With New Scholarship
Ten CCV students have been chosen to be the College’s first recipients of its new Student Leadership Scholarship. Inspired by the outstanding leaders that pass through the College’s twelve brick-and-mortar academic centers as well as the Center for Online Learning, the college has created the new scholarship to recognize and ...Recent News
Williamstown Students First to Earn Career Readiness Credentials
Everybody likes being first, and this week thirteen Williamstown Middle High School students had their chance at the prized spot.
“I don’t think in the beginning these students knew they were the pacesetters they are,” said Williamstown Middle High School teacher Sandy Fitzmorris. “But I think today they know they’ve made a real mark on education in Vermont.”
Professional Artists in the Classroom
Hallmarks of the CCV experience are small classes and practicing professional instructors who bring real-world applications to their teaching. This spring CCV offers 25 art courses at centers throughout the state and online. Students who enroll in the “introduction” classes explore a new area of study, and often also get to experience how working artists apply their craft in daily life.
Archer Mayor Visits CCV-Brattleboro
In November students in Melissa Elwell’s CCV-Brattleboro Introduction to Criminal Justice class were visited by Archer Mayor, author of the bestselling series of Vermont-based police novels.
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Wired For Success
No college can guarantee you’ll land the perfect job right after graduating, but Dan Davis doesn’t pull any punches when he says studying with him for four semesters will give you a leg up.
“Everyone I know who has network administration positions is looking for skilled employees and not necessarily finding people with the skill level their wanting to find, so there are lots of opportunities,” Davis said. “And even if someone doesn’t go into network engineering specifically, say they go into server administration or something else, this is an awesome foundation to have that puts them heads and shoulders above peers who’ve been in the IT industry for ten or fifteen years.”