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The Vermont State Colleges System will advance with a plan to merge three residential colleges under one accreditation after a vote yesterday by its Board of Trustees. Under the plan, Castleton University, Northern Vermont University and Vermont Technical College will unify under a common accreditation in the 2023-24 academic year. The Community College of Vermont will remain
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The annual Budget Adjustment Act is not typically where youâll find intrigue or drama. But things are about to get a bit more interesting for this yearly bookkeeping exercise, thanks to the continuing Form 1099-G saga.
As youâre likely aware, the Vermont Department of Labor, in addition to recalling thousands of errant tax forms sent to the wrong addresses with the wrong personally identifiable information, is working to make sure there are no more mistakes when it sends out corrected forms. With Vermonters who received unemployment benefits waiting on forms to complete their taxes and the department keen to restore trust, getting it right matters.
Illustration When Vermont lawmakers left the Statehouse last March amid the worsening pandemic, they weren t the only ones evicted from their stately digs. The army of lobbyists who work to influence the legislative process was also driven from those corridors of power. Unable to buttonhole senators in the halls or grab lunch with committee chairs in the cafeteria, lobbyists found their working lives disrupted by the pandemic as profoundly as any bartender s or bed-and-breakfast owner s. And yet even as their stock-in-trade access to lawmakers has been curtailed, demand for their influence has remained as strong as ever. Decisions made in Montpelier, from sweeping executive lockdown orders to legislative spats over who should receive relief funds, have taken on existential import, raising the stakes for lobbyists and their clients.
The Mountain Times
By Bob Allen, former president of Green Mountain College, Poultney
The Select Committee and the Vermont Legislature have a difficult task ahead. Covid-19 exacerbated and accelerated a problem that has existed in higher education for at least a decade or more. I will argue the business model for most public and private colleges and universities is broken and needs immediate change.
I had the honor of leading Green Mountain College as its president from 2016 until its closure in the summer of 2019. Prior to my leadership position at GMC, I spent five years as the president and CEO of the nonprofit Windham Foundation based in Grafton; however, most of my professional life was spent in the for-profit sector. I spent 25 years in a succession of senior leadership positions at The Vermont Country Store, ending as president and CEO. Most of my ideas come from the perspective of operating a Vermont business that received no public support. Success was entirely dependent