45 Vermonters who have taken employer-sponsored Assessment of Prior Learning (APL) classes, in partnership with the Community College of Vermont (CCV), have earned a combined total of more than 1,100 college credits.
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.
CCV: Vermont’s Partner in Workforce Development
In downtown Rutland a few weeks before Christmas, a CCV student walked into the West St. academic center. She was wrapping up the fall semester and looking ahead to more classes in the spring. But she was also struggling with more than the usual pre-holiday stress: she had just lost her job.
Notable Now – August 2018
Happy first day of classes, everyone! Here are a few highlights from a busy summer at CCV. Enjoy, and don’t forget to share your own news with us at marketing@ccv.edu!
Credibility and Integrity
Gary Taylor served in the military and worked as a police officer after graduating from Burlington High School in 1973. He didn’t think a college degree was all that important. Taylor grew up in a blue collar family with a father who believed that if you didn’t work with your hands, it didn’t count as work.
Opening Doors
In a cozy room at CCV-Middlebury, Farhad and Amtul Khan sit side by side, nervous and eager in equal measure—they’ve ducked in out of the rain to talk about why this place means so much to them.
A Symbol of Tradition
Kimberly Bourbeau is the bookkeeper for her family’s Sheldon, Vermont dairy and maple syrup businesses, and she is a 2016 graduate of CCV.
Credit Where Credit is Due
Community College of Vermont’s Assessment of Prior Learning (APL) course added another 13 students to its completion ranks on May 6, all of them Comcast employees.
“For years I have been interested in revisiting a return to higher education,” said Travis Miller, a Customer Care Supervisor, “and this presented the perfect opportunity to do so.”
It’s Not What You’ve Done, It’s What You’ve Learned
The adage goes: if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. And that’s what most people would think when they hear that it’s possible to earn thousands of dollars’ worth of college credits in fifteen weeks’ time for about $1,000. But they’d be wrong.
Gabrielle Dietzel
Gabrielle Dietzel, coordinator of assessment services for the Office of External Programs, was recently invited to present two workshops at the “Achieving the Dream” faculty conference in Honolulu, sponsored by the University of Hawaii. Dietzel’s presentations focused on methods to evaluate prior, college-level learning gained by adult students through professional experience, community activities, independent study, the military, or training programs.