As the Community College of Vermont prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary next year, I’ve been doing a good deal of reflecting and reading.
In an editorial from 2013, longtime CCV staff member David Buchdahl describes the cramped quarters where he worked after starting out at the college. Buchdahl would eventually become regional director, academic dean, and then, director of institutional research at CCV. But his first office was 24 square feet, with walls made of particleboard nailed to 2x4s.