Vermont State Colleges Trustees approve consolidation, campuses to stay open
The Vermont State College System Board of Trustees have voted to move forward with the proposal outlined by the state’s Select Committee on the Future of Public Higher Education in Vermont. The proposal will unify the three residential colleges, Castleton University, Northern Vermont University, and Vermont Technical College, under a common accreditation in Academic Year 2023-2024 while maintaining the Community College of Vermont as a separate institution. Additionally, the system will streamline services across the institutions through significant administrative consolidation. The board said it is committed to maintaining the current campus locations. A single president of the consolidated colleges would take over by January 2022.
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Lawmakers who have worked year after year in the Vermont Legislature to craft budgets in the face of perennial revenue shortfalls have a new dilemma: what to do with a surplus of money that has to be spent this session in order to fight the many effects of the coronavirus pandemic?
How to wisely spend a windfall and not go into the hole next year is the lens Lamoille County legislators are looking through, as some of them shared during a legislative question-and-answer virtual forum put on by the Lamoille Chamber of Commerce Monday morning.
Lamoille County Sen. Rich Westman, R-Cambridge, sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee, which is normally tasked with taking testimony on the state budget. This year, he said, the Legislature is moving quickly on dispersing Vermontâs portion of the federal stimulus funds. That includes about $200 million to help Vermonters with rent and utility payments, Westman said.