The Online News Magazine of the Community College of Vermont
Notable Now – September 2019
Fall semester is in full swing as we head into October and cooler weather. Here’s the latest roundup of news and announcements from students, faculty, and staff around the state. Happy reading, and don’t forget to share your own Notables with us by emailing marketing@ccv.edu! CCV sponsored a Cornhole Tournament held at Thunder Road International […]
Summer 2019 Academic Honors
Community College of Vermont is pleased to announce that the following students have been named to the President’s, Dean’s, and Student Honors Lists for the summer 2019 semester. To be named to the President’s List, full-time students must complete the semester with a 4.0 grade point average. To be named to the Dean’s List, full-time […]
CCV Faculty Honored with 2019 Teaching Excellence Awards
For more than a decade, CCV has recognized outstanding faculty with its annual Teaching Excellence Award. This year, three faculty members were honored with the award during fall semester kick-off events at the Winooski and Upper Valley academic centers.
Notable Now – August 2019
Fall semester has begun, and we’re welcoming students and faculty back to classrooms around the state. Here’s the late-summer news…happy reading, and don’t forget to send us your own notables and announcements by emailing marketing@ccv.edu!
The Successful Student 
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.
The Arts
Still Life Lessons
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.
Meet CCV
(Darn) Tough Love
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
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.
Notes from the
President
A Collaborative Approach
Robyn St. Peter never thought college was in her future. She worked as a firefighter, an EMT, and a special education paraprofessional. She raised four children. Two years ago, while working as an LNA at UVM Medical Center, she realized that college could be part of her life after all.
Community Voices
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.