CCV Now

The Online News Magazine of the Community College of Vermont

Students work on an assignment in the fall 2018 English for Academic Purposes class in Winooski.

Fall 2018 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 fall 2018 semester.

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Impacting Vermont

In 2020, CCV will celebrate 50 years of serving Vermont. In anticipation of this milestone, the College conducted an impact study with the economic modeling company Emsi in order to better understand the value of the College to Vermont’s students, taxpayers, and society as a whole.

Robyn St. Peter earned 33 credits through CCV's Assessment of Prior Learning class. "I have so much knowledge...I wanted to be able to get something out of that," she said.

Credit for What I Know

Robyn St. Peter says she never believed a college education was in her stars. For one thing, it was expensive. For another, “I never thought I was smart enough.” She’s worked as a firefighter, EMT, LNA, and special education paraprofessional.

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.

(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.

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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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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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Celebration of the Arts

On Friday, December 8th, the Rutland center held its biannual Cafe CCV, a showcase of different visual and performing arts classes held at the center. In Winooski, the CCV Guitar 1 class and the Community Chorus held a musical performance. And at the Montpelier center, three different art classes were highlighted in an end-of-semester art show.

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Connecting Communities

“I didn’t work well with school, but I was smart. I would skip school and go read books,” says Richard Witting. He dropped out of high school at 17, tried a few classes at CCV, and then moved to the West Coast for more than a decade. In Portland and San Francisco, he returned to familiar work: food.

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Notes from the
President

An Invitation

At the Community College of Vermont, we believe education beyond high school is a necessity for all, and not a privilege for some. Now more than ever, higher education must be understood as central and fundamental to a healthy economy.

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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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