On June 1st, a communication was shared with the faculty and staff at Castleton University, Northern Vermont University, and Vermont Tech about the leadership structure of Vermont State University. We have a bold mission and vision to fulfill together as we launch the new University, and these changes will support this work and the transformation …
It’s hard to believe that we are already into early June. Summer classes have started, and the weather is beautiful. The student experience teams are making great progress in their design work, and some have already moved into the development phase of transformation. Now that the new Vermont State University brand launch is behind us, …
Faculty across our campuses are coming together this summer to work on several significant dimensions of transformation. This is in addition to the work taking place within academic operations transformation teams, such as advising. Faculty in many of the new academic departments-to-be for Vermont State University have been meeting to complete curriculum designs for optimized …
All Administrative Operations teams have completed initial discovery and begun the hard work of moving into the design phase. As they concluded Discovery, the Employee Services team provided an excellent summary of our strengths and areas of opportunity. They will be focusing first on student employment-related design work and will then move on to other …
As part of discovery, the Workforce Development is wrapping up the key design principles that will serve as the foundation of the new division. Next week, Dr. Richard Rhodes, Chancellor of the Austin Community College system, will be joining us so we can learn more about their workforce efforts. He was a speaker at a …
A new page has been created for diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice work that members of the VSC and the Board of Trustees have engaged in.
At their May 16, 2022 meeting, the Board of Trustees approved proposed revisions to the bylaws establishing a Workforce Development Division unit within the Vermont State Colleges. The Executive Director of this new division will report to the Board, thereby reflecting the significant role that the VSC plays in meeting the workforce and continuing education …
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The workforce team continues to make great progress on design principles around 4 key “buckets” of planning: (i) systems improvement and integration; (ii) program development and student services; (iii) communication and engagement with customers which include both employers and student learners; and (iv) financial sustainability. The team is nearing the end its stage gate preparations …
The Academic Operations Core team has been continuing work to define Student Success goals and map these to key aspects of our sub teams’ designs, including advising, career development, and general education. All teams are anticipating completion of project designs in the next month and beginning to plan development and launch timelines for first-priority projects …
Student experience teams are accelerating their design and implementation timelines now that the summer is upon us. There has been much discussion at the core team level of how the results of the Ferrilli business process review and recommendations will interplay with the proposed designs going forward.
