CCV Now

The Online News Magazine of the Community College of Vermont

Fall 2019 Academic Honors

Community College of Vermont is pleased to announce students who have been named to the President’s, Dean’s, and Student Honors Lists for the fall 2019 semester.

CCV students and staff with House Speaker Mitzi Johnson at the State House

Notable Now – January 2020

Don’t let the snowy conditions fool you, spring classes are in full swing! Here’s the latest roundup of news and announcements from students, faculty, and staff. Happy reading, and don’t forget to share your own Notables with us by emailing marketing@ccv.edu! Faculty member Helen Schmidt is currently featured in the art event “Finding and Gloamings: […]

Former CCV president and VSC chancellor Tim Donovan, founding CCV president Peter Smith, and current CCV president Joyce Judy at CCV's 50th birthday party Wednesday at the State House.

Happy Birthday, CCV!

CCV’s story began fifty years ago, among a small group of visionaries with the radical idea that everyone, regardless of background or circumstance, should have the opportunity to go to college.

Faculty member Chrissy Morley awarded Yan Song a certificate on Upper Valley's Student Recognition Night

Notable Now – December 2019

Spring classes are just weeks away; make education your new year’s resolution! Here’s the latest roundup of news and announcements from students, faculty, and staff. Happy reading, and don’t forget to share your own Notables with us by emailing marketing@ccv.edu!

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The Successful Student

Students in Glennie Sewell's Reading and Writing For College class in Montpelier tune in to author Howard Frank Mosher's presentation in Newport.

Telepresence Brings a New Dimension to Distance Education at CCV

Like the 300 fully online courses that CCV offers each semester, telepresence courses are all about access for students.

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Still Life Lessons

Student paintings of onions in CCV president Joyce Judy's office

Carol Gargon has been teaching art classes at CCV for 31 years. She’s taught graphic design, drawing, pastels, painting, jewelry, printmaking, and a crafting class. This spring, students in her Painting I class in Montpelier had a chance to show their work in CCV president Joyce Judy’s office gallery, where artwork from CCV faculty members is displayed in rotating exhibits.

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(Darn) Tough Love

Kris Matheson took CCV's Applied Supervisory Leadership class at Darn Tough Vermont, where he is a production supervisor. "The confidence that I took away was just unbelievable," he said.

Kris Matheson is obsessed with socks. He brags about the drawers full of them he has at home, and the fancy materials they’re made of, like merino wool and something called Coolmax; he ogles the rows of sewing machines that knit them inside the Cabot Hosiery Mills in Northfield, where Darn Tough socks are made.

CCV In France: Study Abroad Spring 2018

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Being French

Today is the last full day of our adventure. We have seen so many monuments of history and culture. Today being Sunday, there was a lot of foot traffic on the streets. People walking to work, the local boulangerie, a café, or the markets.

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Celebrating 50 Years in 2020

CCV opened its doors in 1970, with ten classes. Students didn’t pay tuition, and faculty taught for free. The mission was simple: bring higher education to the people of our rural state.

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America: Melting Pot, or Something Else?

You can tell a native New Yorker from a non-native by how aware they choose to be of their presence on the subway. They sleep, ensured by their city-formed adaptation to waking up just before their stop. They read books. Before cell phones, newspapers were likely a popular form of dissociating.

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