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Category Archives: Education

October 21, 2013

What Would an Ideal College Look Like? A Lot Like This

Burlington VT, Colleges and Universities, Community Colleges and Career-Technical Schools

What Would an Ideal College Look Like? A Lot Like ThisChamplain1
by John Tierney
While you’re busy designing your version of the ideal, I can take a nap or go fishing, because somebody has already built mine: Champlain College. (Read it here.)

October 14, 2013

How Did a ‘Public Ivy’ Take Root in Vermont?

Burlington VT, Colleges and Universities

How Did a ‘Public Ivy’ Take Root in Vermont?UVM1
by John Tierney
There are lots of familiar American “college towns” – places where a single university dominates the social and economic life of the city. Think Boulder, Ann Arbor, Madison, Berkeley, Princeton, Charlottesville. None of those college towns has quite the feel of Burlington, Vermont. (Read it here.)

October 9, 2013

Vermont Report: Shaping the Soul of a School

Burlington VT, Civic Life, Elementary Schools

Vermont Report: Shaping the Soul of a SchoolSustain1
by Deborah Fallows
The school’s neighborhood is home to a mix of the down-and-out, the frontier-pushers, and is also the first stop for many of Burlington’s constant influx of refugees and immigrants. (Read it here.)

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