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‘A Great Place to Start’: A Successful Career in Healthcare, Launched at CCV

January 12, 2021 by Katie Keszey

Bill LaDue, center, at his graduation from CCV in 1992.

Bill LaDue was in his mid-30s when he hit rock bottom. He was newly divorced and going through an ugly custody battle over his four children. He had just sold his business and lost his home. “I had nothing,” he remembers.

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged: alumni, assessment of prior learning

CCV Works: Jeff Patterson

June 1, 2020 by Katie Keszey

Jeff Patterson's CCV degree helped him advance his career in healthcare.

Jeff Patterson took a CPR class in school when he was just thirteen years old. At seventeen, a friend’s father encouraged him to join the local rescue squad, so he went out for a ride-along. After that, “I was hooked.”

Filed Under: Alumni, Featured, Profiles Tagged: academics, assessment of prior learning, stem

Community College of Vermont Receives $50,000 for Prior Learning Assessment Scholarships

November 22, 2019 by Katie Keszey

In honor of its upcoming 50th anniversary, Community College of Vermont (CCV) has received a generous gift of $50,000 from the J. Warren and Lois McClure Foundation to provide scholarships for Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) classes.

Filed Under: Press Releases Tagged: assessment of prior learning

CCV’s Prior Learning Assessment Program Increases Degree Attainment

July 9, 2019 by Katie Keszey

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.

Filed Under: Press Releases Tagged: assessment of prior learning, workforce development

Credit for What I Know

January 18, 2019 by Katie Keszey

Robyn St. Peter earned 33 credits through CCV's Assessment of Prior Learning class. "I have so much knowledge...I wanted to be able to get something out of that," she said.

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.

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged: assessment of prior learning, workforce development

CCV: Vermont’s Partner in Workforce Development

January 14, 2019 by Katie Keszey

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.

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged: academics, assessment of prior learning, CPT, vermont state colleges, workforce development

Notable Now – August 2018

September 4, 2018 by Katie Keszey

Faculty member Stephanie Bush's collection of oil paintings, "Ladies in Waiting," is on display in Stowe this month.

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!

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged: assessment of prior learning, brattleboro, man up, morrisville, upper valley, visual arts, winooski

Credibility and Integrity

April 25, 2018 by Katie Keszey

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.

Filed Under: Alumni, Featured Tagged: assessment of prior learning, criminal justice, st. albans, veterans

Opening Doors

May 8, 2017 by Katie Keszey

Farhad and Amtul Khan at CCV-Middlebury.

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.

Filed Under: Student Tagged: accounting, assessment of prior learning, business, middlebury

A Symbol of Tradition

October 13, 2016 by Katie Keszey

Kimberly Bourbeau at her family farm in Sheldon.

Kimberly Bourbeau is the bookkeeper for her family’s Sheldon, Vermont dairy and maple syrup businesses, and she is a 2016 graduate of CCV.

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged: assessment of prior learning

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