STUDENT ADVISORY COUNCIL Thank you to all those who have nominated themselves or nominated others to serve on the Student Advisory Council. We have a broad cross-section of nominees by institution, part-time/full-time, traditional/early college/adult learner, commuters/residential, in-state/out of state, veterans, first generation, students of color, students who manage disabilities, et cetera. The Student Advisory Council …
STUDENT ADVISORY COUNCIL As you know from Transformation Update #10, we will be launching a Student Advisory Council in September to help guide the work of the Transformation Teams as we work to design the future of the new unified university. The Student Advisory Council meetings will be an opportunity for students to hear from …
STUDENT ADVISORY COUNCIL We will be launching a Student Advisory Council in September to help guide the work of the Transformation Teams as we work to design the future of the new university that will be formed by unifying Northern Vermont University, Castleton University, and Vermont Technical College. Student input will be essential to ensuring …
TRANSFORMATION TEAMS The work of the Transformation teams is now underway. The Academic Operations Core Team has held three meetings and is off to a very positive start. Team members have developed an extensive initial list of objectives and deliverables, intentionally elevating DEI in defining priorities, and are ready to convene and engage several of the sub-teams …
TRANSFORMATION TEAMS LAUNCHED LAST WEEK The Transformation core teams for Student Experience and Academic Operations launched last week. As they start their work, these teams are engaging in Discovery about how we serve and support students today and what options we have to incorporate new approaches and best practices into our work. These teams will …
PROJECT MANAGEMENT: LAUNCHING TRANSFORMATION TEAMS Starting the week of July 12th, we will be kicking off the first two cross-functional Transformation teams, Student Experience and Academic Operations.[1] These teams will help to define the student learning, support, and engagement processes for the new university and will provide recommendations for how to support these processes with …
PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR TRANSFORMATION A Transformation update was provided to the Board of Trustees at their meeting on Wednesday, June 16th. Wilson Garland, the Director of Transformation Projects, and Kellie Campbell, the VSCS Chief Information Officer, provided on overview of how the Transformation work will be organized, the cross-functional team approach, some tools and processes …
PROJECT MANAGER UPDATE Wilson Garland, VSCS Director of Transformation Projects, started with the VSCS last week. His first priority is to meet with stakeholders across the system and to get up to speed on the current Transformation projects. Based on the information gathered, he will propose some project management processes and tools that we will …
STATE FUNDING We are thrilled to share with you that the legislature finalized their work on the Fiscal Year 2022 budget and is appropriating a record $88.9 million to the Vermont State Colleges System, our transformation efforts, and to student scholarships, workforce development initiatives, and free tuition program pilots. This includes: $30.5 million in the …
PROJECT MANAGER Interviews are complete for the Transformation Project Manager and we are pleased to share that Wilson Garland will be joining us in June. Wilson has an extensive background in higher education leadership, program and project management, innovation, and entrepreneurship. He is currently employed as the Executive Director of the IT Center of Excellence …
