The Online News Magazine of the Community College of Vermont
Notable Now – November 2019
Spring and Summer 2020 registration has begun and the holiday season is 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!
CCV Honors Veteran and Military Students with Service and Support
Kyle Aines is a U.S. Army veteran who served two tours in Iraq. Today, he’s still serving others in his role as associate director of veteran and military services at CCV, where he spends his days helping fellow veterans.
Notable Now – October 2019
The holiday season has begun and CCV centers around Vermont have started to celebrate! 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!
Giving Back: Veterans Town Halls Encourage Sharing and Listening
“I’m not comfortable at all speaking to people.” Sandy Combs addressed a crowded auditorium at Saint Michael’s College’s McCarthy Arts Center on Sunday afternoon at one of Vermont’s Veterans Town Halls, community forums that aim to bridge the divide between veterans and the friends and neighbors they served.
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.
CCV In The Media
- St. Albans officials to break ground on mixed-use development downtown
- $8 million effort in St. Albans to attack local nursing shortage
- Feeding Chittenden builds satellite food shelf at CCV in Winooski
- Winooski picks developer to build hotel, offices, and parking garage
- An Interview with Peter Smith on His New Book
Press Releases
- Community College of Vermont Receives $50,000 for Prior Learning Assessment Scholarships
- CCV Student Receives $1,000 Legacy Scholarship
- CCV-Bennington to Offer Start-Up 802 Entrepreneurship Program
- CCV Student Named ‘Leaders of Promise’ Scholar
- CCV/Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Partnership to Provide Hospital Jobs