Community College of Vermont (CCV) will offer seven new certificate programs beginning in the fall 2019 semester. The new certificate offerings are administrative medical assisting, clinical medical assisting, digital media production, funeral director, graphic design, media communications, and studio art. These join the College’s seven existing certificate programs to provide a comprehensive offering of high-value […]
What Elizabeth Warren’s Free College Plan Gets Wrong
Washington Monthly, April 25, 2019
This week, Senator Elizabeth Warren unveiled yet another ambitious policy proposal: a $1.25 trillion plan to make college more affordable. It includes cancelling up to $50,000 in student loan debt for 95 percent of borrowers, billions of dollars for historically black colleges, and $100 billion in new money for the federal Pell Grant program.
Condos proposes streamlined licensing rules for funeral directors, barbers, and cosmetologists
Vermont Business Magazine, April 24, 2019
The Vermont Secretary of State’s Office of Professional Regulation (OPR) filed proposed rules to reform licensing requirements for funeral directors, barbers, cosmetologists, nail technicians, and estheticians this month. These reforms fall under the scope of a Federal Department of Labor grant awarded to OPR last year and are part of a broader effort to update […]
CCV adds seven new certificate programs
Vermont Business Magazine, April 25, 2019
Community College of Vermont (CCV) will offer seven new certificate programs beginning in the fall 2019 semester. The new certificate offerings are administrative medical assisting, clinical medical assisting, digital media production, funeral director, graphic design, media communications, and studio art. These join the College’s seven existing certificate programs to provide a comprehensive offering of high-value […]
‘An Amazing Story’
St. Albans Messenger, April 16, 2019
People regularly get together to talk over coffee. But it’s less regular for that conversation to shift the future of the city. Yet Jill Berry Bowen, the CEO of Northwestern Medical Center, said that’s exactly how the forthcoming development on the corner of Congress and Main — and its central partnership between NMC, the Community […]
Vermont Tech, CCV and Northwestern Medical partner on nurse training
VT Digger, April 16, 2019
Vermont Technical College, the Community College of Vermont and Northwestern Medical Center are partnering to create an expanded nursing program in a new facility in downtown St. Albans. The two state colleges and health provider are planning to occupy two floors in soon-to-be built mixed-used building on the corner of Congress and Main streets being […]
Support school budget
Rutland Herald, April 16, 2019
I am writing to support the passage of Springfield’s revised school budget. On Town Meeting Day, only 18% of registered Springfield voters turned out to exercise their democratic right to vote on issues of social and political importance. Voters made it clear that we care, as a town, about care: We approved funding for Meals […]
BMH and CCV host open houses for accelerated medical assistant program
Vermont Business Magazine, April 16, 2019
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital (BMH) and Community College of Vermont (CCV) are partnering again for an accelerated program to prepare qualified candidates for jobs as Certified Medical Assistants. Enrollment in the one semester program will be limited to twenty participants. Classes will be held on the CCV Brattleboro campus, and all clinical aspects of the course […]
College, hospital offer new medical assistant program
Brattleboro Reformer, April 11, 2019
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital (BMH) and Community College of Vermont (CCV) are partnering again for an accelerated program to prepare qualified candidates for jobs as Certified Medical Assistants. Enrollment in the one semester program will be limited to 20 participants. Classes will be held on the Community College of Vermont Brattleboro campus, and all clinical aspects […]