UVM’s committee on general education requirements plans to update degree requirements for fall 2023 in response to accreditation demands, said Jennifer Dickinson, vice provost for academic affairs and...
Halsey McLaen, Assistant News Editor
• February 24, 2022
Enrollment of Black students at UVM dropped by 16.2% from fall 2020 to fall 2021, according to the Office of Institutional Research’s Catamount Data.
One hundred eighty-six Black students enrolled in...
Patricia Prelock, provost and senior vice president, apologized to the UVM community for the University’s Feb. 17 Instagram post about sexual violence, according to a Feb. 23 email.
“[The Instagram...
Halsey McLaen, Assistant News Editor
• February 23, 2022
UVM’s student tour guides, known as AdvoCats, stood in support of survivors at Friday’s protest but denounced its methods, according to a Feb. 21 Instagram post on @uvmadvocats.
AdvoCats stand...
UVM Police Services received an anonymous report of multiple Rohypnol druggings by an unknown perpetrator at an off-campus party over the weekend, according to a Feb. 14 CatAlert.
No known reports exist...
UVM’s faculty union, United Academics, aims to get faculty and staff representation on the board of trustees, according to a Feb. 14 email from UA communications.
UA introduced a revised version of...
Editor’s note: This story was updated Feb. 24 at 9:30 p.m. to remove the name of the Asian Student Union from those who attended the town hall meeting.
UVM’s staff union, UVM Staff United, held...
Editor’s note: This story was updated Feb. 22 at 9:00 p.m. to correct the spelling of a source's last name and to correct the year used in one of the timeline points.
Hundreds gathered on Feb. 18,...
Editor's note: This story was updated Feb. 19 at 5:13 p.m. to correct attribution errors on information pulled from McCollum’s son’s obituary instead of McCollum’s own.
Nicodemus McCollum III...
RJ Morrison, Cynic News Reporter
• February 15, 2022
Despite a record number of students who applied to UVM this year, the number of in-state applicants fell, said Jay Jacobs, vice provost for enrollment management.
The University received more than 30,000...
Audrie Caruso, Cynic News Reporter
• February 15, 2022
Edna Hall Brown is the first recorded Black woman to graduate from UVM, according to an April 2021 article by Ben Yousey-Hindes, assistant vice president for communications and stewardship at the UVM Foundation.
Brown...
Lila Cumming, Cynic News Reporter
• February 14, 2022
UVM President Suresh Garimella requested a $10 million increase in the University’s base appropriation from the state’s House Committee on Education Feb. 10.
The current base State Appropriation budget...
