Vermont’s state colleges poised to adopt unification plan for survival’s sake
Modified: 2/21/2021 9:15:01 PM
Trustees of the Vermont State Colleges are poised to endorse a plan Monday in which all three of the system’s four-year schools would eventually merge into one “Vermont State University.”
The consolidation of Northern Vermont University, Castleton University, and Vermont Technical College under one common accreditation is part of a sweeping plan to make good on the system’s promise to transform itself in exchange for extra help from the state.
“It will be more student-focused, it will serve the state better, and it will get us to a place where we’re on a sounder financial footing,” state colleges Chancellor Sophie Zdatny said Friday.
Three Vermont Schools Merge to Stay Afloat During Pandemic
Castleton University. Photo: castleton.edu
February 22, 2021
Three schools of the Vermont State College System (VSCS) are set to be consolidated to form one “Vermont State University,” according to a proposal put forward by the Vermont State Colleges Board of Trustees.
VSCS trustees will meet today to make a final decision about the college consolidation plan first proposed last year after COVID impacted the financial position of state academic institutions.
If approved, three of the system’s four-year schools including Northern Vermont University, Castleton University, and Vermont Technical College will merge into one single institution. The Community College of Vermont will remain a standalone institution.
American Sentinel University Plans to Merge with Post University to Become the American Sentinel College of Nursing and Health Sciences of Post University
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DENVER, Feb. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ American Sentinel University announced today that it has signed an agreement to be acquired by and merge with Post University subject to the receipt of all required regulatory approvals. Upon the consummation of the transaction, American Sentinel University will become the American Sentinel College of Nursing and Health Sciences of Post University. Post University is a regionally accredited university located in Waterbury, Connecticut that has substantial experience in offering online education, including to more than 14,000 current online students.
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FALL RIVER Bristol Community College’s new Parenting Advancement Pathways program holistically supports student parents who are balancing their education while raising children. The program provides valuable resources inside and outside of the college such as case management, financial and career planning, counseling as well as integrated, wrap-around academic support that leads to earning a degree.
When parents can focus on their educational, career and financial goals with support and high-impact best practices, they are more likely to reach their goals,” said Iva Brito, Director, Bristol Community College Women’s Center.
The program is planned to begin in Spring 2021 and is backed by EMPath’s Mobility Mentoring model and the development of individual goals in five areas that represent the pillars on the EmPath Bridge to Self-Sufficiency. The initiative focuses on supporting BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color), low-income and single moth
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I initially resisted responding to Professor Toyin Falola’s trending essay titled “IS THE DIASPORA NOW ABOUT RUBBISHING THOSE AT HOME?” which he wrote partlyin response to the guest column I invited Professor Moses Ochonu to write for three reasons.
One, the article was so atypically self-aggrandizing that I thought the Professor Falola I’ve known since 2004 couldn’t possibly be its author. Falola, like all greats, has a reputation for self-effacement and for disarmingly self-deprecating humility.
But the article wasn’t just gratuitously self-conceited (particularly for someone who is already sitting pretty at the mountaintop of enormous scholarly accomplishments and has no need to toot his own horn), it was also an invidiously below-the-belt symbolic violence against unnamed targets Falola perceives as less privileged than he is, which ironically vitiates his charge of superciliousness against diasporan critics of ASUU’s enablement of mediocrity in the Niger