News and Updates

Four New Leadership Appointments for Vermont State University

We are excited to announce four permanent leadership hires for Vermont State University. These four individuals have done outstanding work in their current roles and will bring this experience with them to support the new university in their roles of recruitment, enrollment, marketing, and academic programs. Jessica Van Deren will be serving as Director of …

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Administrative Operations Team Update (8/15/22)

The Business Planning team completed the design stage gate process for the Shared Expense Allocation project. This information will be shared with the Finance & Facilities Committee of the Board of Trustees at their next meeting. The Employee Services sub team has been working on developing a consistent process across the System for assigning current …

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Student Experience Team Update (8/15/22)

You can tell that autumn is right around the corner as our campuses gear up for the beginning of the semester. Fall athletes and student orientation staff are coming back and next week marks the beginning of new students arriving on campus for orientation! It is so exciting to see our campuses coming alive for …

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Workforce Development Team Update (8/15/22)

We are in the process of collecting data to inform basic needs around the operations of current workforce development programs across campuses. This includes data on the number of current projects, number of people served, overall revenue (i.e. from credit and non-credit courses), sectors served, credentials offered, and more. This part of the work is …

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Workforce Development Team Update (8/1/22)

The team is moving into the design stage. We spent more time with the Chancellor and the two Presidents to better understand their vision for workforce development, given their prior feedback at the Discovery Gate meeting. There is a clear need to develop a workforce “entity” within VTSU bringing together the existing workforce development and …

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Administrative Operations Team Update (8/1/22)

As the Facilities sub team continues to prepare for their Design Gate presentations, it will be doing some preliminary surveying/boundary work as well as deed investigation. These foundational pieces will better inform the right sizing activities across our various locations. Facilities and Finance have been working together to establish base line lease rates across our …

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Academic Operations Team Update (8/1/22)

A key area of discussion for the Academic Operations Core Team has been starting to define what it means in specific, operational ways for VTSU to be a hybrid university that supports all students in all locations and all modalities. Several of our sub-teams are beginning to identify a set of tools and practices that …

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You are Invited to a Presentation on E-Portfolios

As part of ongoing transformation projects to support student success, including advising, civic and career readiness, and the proposed Connections General Education program, there will be an introduction to e-portfolios by Helen Chen, research scientist in the Designing Education Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, on Friday, August 5 at 2:00-3:00 pm. For a …

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