Maybe it’s just end-of-the-year insouciance, but here comes another slightly unconventional post! One day after NECHE’s annual December meeting in Boston (a terrific gathering!), I flew to Austin to celebrate the upcoming retirement of one of my accrediting colleagues, Belle Wheelan. Belle has been President of SACSCOC, the accrediting association of eleven southern states, for twenty years and back when I was President of Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, I was…Continue readingPit Stop #78: On the Road to Texas
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This is a post of a different type– not about a visit to one of NECHE’s schools, but to the two colleges where I spent my early career. My visits came within a few weeks of each other and together they produced a surprising reaction in me. I’ll start with the trip that took me back…Continue readingOlder Roads
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