Dear Students, Printed below is a link to an announcement from the Association of Vermont Independent Colleges about an imminent threat to financial aid and a contest they are launching to help publicize the problem. Take a look. YouTubecontest —Shirley M. Collado Dean of the College
The wires have been silent here since the holidays for reasons I will explain in my next post—in the next week or so. But the point of this post is to engage the The Campus‘ ill-informed editorializing on the recent decision not to include the MiddView program in next year’s first-year Orientation. To get a [...]
To provide some context for my previous post on study abroad, here are some observations taken from an article that appeared yesterday in the online edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education. There is a lot press out there these days on the adjustments that colleges and universities have had to make in the wake of the recession, but this one [...]
Every other year or so, the Board of Trustees holds a retreat to discuss issues of broad importance to the College. This year—last week, in fact—the Board met to consider the “new normal,” which is the phrase now being used to describe the conditions brought about by the economic downturn. The idea is that because [...]
Last week, the Trenton Times published an article describing budget cuts at Princeton, where the endowment dropped 24% in fiscal year 2009—a significant loss, especially since 48% of Princeton’s operating budget comes from the endowment. The piece makes a couple of interesting points. For one, while the budget cuts that Princeton has made thus far—closing [...]
One effect of this economic downturn is that commentators have turned their view to the future of higher education, sometimes with startling effect. There has been no shortage of such writing in the past, but with endowments down and resources scarce this seems like a particularly opportune moment to imagine what college education will be [...]
Welcome back students! Or welcome to the new year for those of us who never left. If this opening salvo sounds a little awkward or self-conscious, that’s because I haven’t posted since the final week of classes last May. But, having taken the summer off—and returned to the role of Dean of the College after [...]
