Key Transformation Links

  1. State Treasurer’s Report to the Speaker of the House, the Senate President Pro Tempore, and the Chief Fiscal Officer, Joint Fiscal Office, dated June 8, 2020, providing a system financial review of the VSCS – State Treasurer’s Report
  2. Report to the Vermont Legislative Joint Fiscal Office Concerning Vermont State Colleges System Funding for FY20 and FY21, dated June 8, 2020 by James Page – Page Report
  3. Final Report of the legislatively-created Select Committee on the Future of Public Higher Education in Vermont, dated April 9, 2021 – Select Committee’s Final Report
  4. Additional resources and background information considered by the Select Committee in developing their recommendations are available at the Select Committee’s website on the Joint Fiscal Office’s website.
  5. The Board adopted the recommendations of the Select Committee (as contained in the Committee’s December 2020 Report) at its meeting in February 2021.  See Approved Minutes of 2-22-21 Board MeetingResolution 2021-007 (Transformation of the VSCS), and VSCS-Transformation-Proposal.pdf
  6. In Act 74 of the 2021 legislative session, the state mandated system transformation and integration while also committing to stronger funding of the system, the member institutions, and Vermont students.  See Act 74 (as enacted) at pp. 177-182 (including specifically, at p. 181: “The Chancellor shall establish policies and procedures to implement the Board approved transformation plan as developed by the Select Committee on Higher Education.”).