The Online News Magazine of the Community College of Vermont
Visiting Grace’s Property
On a quiet dirt road just outside the village of Putney, Dr. Anne Black is transforming the way we think about taking care of veterans. She shares her home with The Warrior Connection (TWC), a non-profit she started ten years ago.
Growing What We Have
Dara Zink says women’s safety has always been near and dear to her heart. So she took an entrepreneurship class—with no previous experience starting a business—and launched a self-defense program in Bennington.
Notable Now – June 2018
More than 500 students graduated on Saturday, June 2nd at Norwich University. Congratulations to all of our graduates! Please don’t forget to share your own summer news with us at marketing@ccv.edu.
An Ethnography of Digital Literacy
Dr. Bryan Alexander is a futurist—as in, he studies what’s next. But on Friday morning at CCV’s annual Faculty Summer Institute at the Lake Morey Resort in Fairlee, the conversation was all about what’s right now.
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.
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.
The Arts
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.
Meet CCV
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.
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.
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.