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Related Company: Vermont Business Magazine New England Culinary Institute President Dr Milan Milasinovic has announced on the college s website that it will be closing down. The 40-year-old Montpelier institution, which featured a college experience and real-world culinary arts at its own restaurants, has struggled in recent years, just as many other small colleges in Vermont and elsewhere have. Enrollments are down nationwide. NECI follows Green Mountain College, St Joseph s College. Southern Vermont College and Marlboro College in shutting its doors in the last two years. NECI was founded on June 15, 1980 by Fran Voigt and John Dranow. Chef Michel LeBorgne, now Maître Cuisinier de France and Professor Emeritus, conducted the first class of seven students. As of 2017, they have over 5,000 alumni throughout the world. ....
File: Jeb Wallace-Brodeur Chef-instructor David Parson and students Jackson Person, right, and Aidan Murch in a Sensory Analysis class in 2014 Updated December 28, 2020. New England Culinary Institute has announced that it will discontinue all credit-bearing programs, effectively closing the 40-year-old Montpelier-based culinary school after its current students complete their degrees. The undated website announcement signed by NECI president Milan Milasinovic states that no specific closing date has been set, but that the school expects students to graduate in Spring 2021. Reached by text, Milasinovic confirmed the pending closure and said there are only five students remaining, plus a few whose externship completion has been impacted by the pandemic. ....
New England Culinary Institute, which celebrated its 40th anniversary this year, is set to wind down and eventually close, in part due to economic challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Students, faculty and staff of the Montpelier-based culinary school were informed in an letter. In the message, seen Monday morning on the institute s website, NECI President Milan Milasinovic announced that the institute would discontinue all of its credit-bearing programs. Unfortunately, the pandemic proved to be the burden that we could not overcome, said Milasinovic in the letter. Upon closing its eateries and retail operations in March due to state restrictions, he said, the school lacked the ability to continue to delivery a college level, hands on culinary education to its students.New England Culinary Institute was founded in 1980, beginning in the kitchens of the Vermont Department of Labor (then known as the Vermont Department of Employment and Training) before b ....