In my last stop in Vermont, I was thrilled to visit with Community College of Vermont (CCV) President Joyce Judy on the Winooski campus, just minutes from neighboring Burlington. The Community College of Vermont was founded in 1970 and today serves more than 10,000 students each year at its 12 academic centers and through extensive remote learning options. President Judy is a NECHE Commissioner finishing her…Continue readingPit Stop #73: Community College of Vermont
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Stop #3 on my Vermont trek was lovely Champlain College, at home on a sweeping campus overlooking the lake from which it takes its name. NECHE accredits all the Burlington, Vermont area institutions of higher education including the University of Vermont, Champlain, St. Michael’s, plus a campus of the Community College of Vermont. In fact,…Continue readingPit Stop #72: Champlain College
This third week of October was Vermont Week for our blog. Allegedly, it was days after peak leaf season but the trees hadn’t gotten the message. The drive up was breathtakingly gorgeous. First stop was Norwich University. Norwich was founded in 1819 by Captain Alden Partridge, a military educator and former superintendent at West Point. Partridge believed in the “American…Continue readingPit Stop #71: Norwich University
Talk about a road trip! Throughout October, NECHE staff is holding eight regional meetings to engage our members in conversation about the revision of our Standards of Accreditation, a process that takes place every ten years. This is the most important undertaking that I will lead during my tenure as NECHE President. Our Standards are used…Continue readingPit Stop #70: Community College of Rhode Island
There are small towns, and then there are smaller towns. But South Royalton, Vermont is actually a village of about 700 folks within the town of Royalton. Now, South Royalton may be small but it is also home to an extraordinarily special institution: Vermont Law and Graduate School. (Vermont Law also has a second home, up the…Continue readingPit Stop #57: Vermont Law and Graduate School
Recently, I had the opportunity to travel north to Putney, Vermont, home of Landmark College, accredited by NECHE since 1991. I know I say this over and over, but almost every time I visit one of NECHE’s schools, I come away thinking, “What a unique institution with such a distinct and valuable mission!” Landmark College certainly fits…Continue readingPit Stop #56: Landmark College
At the very end of July, I had the opportunity to travel north from Boston to the Green Mountain State. In light of all the disasters that have befallen the country since then, it might be a bit difficult to remember that during the second week of July, Vermont suffered a massive environmental crisis, with almost…Continue readingPit Stop #52: Sterling College
I haven’t been on the road with NECHE since we visited the African Leadership University, so I welcomed the chance to make the drive north to visit St. Michael’s College (affectionately known as St. Mike’s) located just outside Burlington, Vermont. For a late February day, it was relatively balmy (41 degrees), but with almost no…Continue readingPit Stop #47: St. Michael’s College
What do Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta, and Bennington, Vermont have in common? Not a whole lot …except that each is home to an institution of higher education with a relationship to NECHE.. . and each happened to be on my visiting schedule in the past two weeks. You’ve read about Fulbright University Vietnam and…Continue readingPit Stop #43: Bennington College