Colleges and universities under the banner of Vermont State College System will consolidate and make significant changes, such as shifting library resources to fully digital and leaving the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The Associated…
Topic: Vermont
Private Vermont College Closes Even After Trying Almost Every Reform Possible
Green Mountain College, located in the small town of Poultney, Vermont, will close this year in the spring. The college is a typical small-enrollment liberal arts institution, and had invested more in developing its graduate…
Vermont High School Plans to Fly ‘Black Lives Matter’ Flag for Black History Month
For Black History Month, Montpelier High School in Vermont will fly a ‘Black Lives Matter’ flag on their high school campus.
University of Vermont is Flying a ‘Black Lives Matter’ Flag on their campus
Is this offensive, to fly a ‘Black Lives Matter’ flag on a college campus with the American flag? The University of Vermont’s Burlington campus is flying a Black Lives Matter flag alongside both the American…
University of Vermont to Host an All-White ‘White Privilege’ Retreat
Um, this sounds like a terrible and exclusionary idea: The “Examining White Privilege: A Retreat for Undergraduate Students Who Self-Identify as White” is predicated on the notion that white privilege is real, and that it…
Vermont College “Feels the Bern” and Closes
The wife of the socialist candidate promising free college is being blamed for closing down a college in Vermont. Burlington College is going out of business, thanks to debt incurred under the leadership of its…
Red Bull, 5-Hour Energy Drinks Banned at Vermont College
Middlebury College doesn’t like energy drinks, apparently. Photo by :Salihan Photo by :Salihan
Antidote to White Flight: Charter and Private Schools
Liberal activists concerned about the “white flight” from cities over the past four decades may want to consider a new approach that relies upon charter and private schools to reverse the flight pattern. Santa Ana,…
Vermont’s Water Bottle Ban Led to More Soda Consumption by Students
The University of Vermont doesn’t understand basic economic principles after implementing a disastrous ban on water bottles on their campus.
UVM’s Bottles Unintended Consequences
Academics really need to study the effects of unintended consequences more often. When the University of Vermont, one of the greenest campuses in one of the greenest states, banned bottled water, the school gave students…