Support your fellow UVM student leaders
October 4, 2017
The past two weeks on campus have been filled with protests, marches, rallies and emails about diversity and inclusion at UVM. Student leaders of various diversity organizations on campus delivered a list of demands to president Tom Sullivan asking for the University to take specific action ...
Sullivan responds to diversity protest
Brandon Arcari and Lilly Young
October 2, 2017
President Tom Sullivan met with 12 leaders of student diversity organizations Wednesday regarding the list of demands presented to him. Leaders of the Black Student Union, the Asian Student Union and Alianza Latinx coordinated a march to the Waterman building Sept. 25. The group brought a lis...
Lowest tuition increase in 40 years approved by board of trustees
Linsday Freed, Staff Writer
May 29, 2017
The lowest tuition percentage increase since 1977 was passed by the board of trustees May 20. In-state tuition will rise 2.7 percent, from $15,096 to $15,504, and out-of state tuition will rise 2.5 percent, from $38,180 to $39,120, for the 2017-2018 academic year, said trustee Soraiya Thura, who sits...
Real Food Challenge reaches goal three years early
John Riedel, Senior Staff Writer
May 1, 2017
UVM has reached its real food challenge goal three years ahead of schedule. Currently, UVM serves 21 percent real food, three years ahead of its goal of 20 percent by 2020. It has established a new goal of 25 percent by 2020. The achievement was announced April 17 by members of the real fo...
Quantitative reasoning added to requirements
Craig Pelsor, Staff Writer
April 20, 2017
A new general education requirement in mathematical problem solving will be added in fall 2017. The proposal for the new general education requirement focused on quantitative reasoning was passed by the Faculty Senate March 27, becoming the fourth University-wide requirement needed to gr...
Sullivan announces book about free speech
Greta Brown, Staff Writer
April 15, 2017
President Tom Sullivan thinks it necessary to value free speech on college campuses, according to a new book he is writing, which has yet to be named. Sullivan’s book will outline the challenges of interpreting the First Amendment and emphasize the necessity for college campuses to cultivate a civica...
Diversity forum educates faculty and staff
Joey Waldinger, Staff Writer
April 14, 2017
A crowd of scholars, faculty and students sat in the Silver Maple ballroom waiting to hear a presentation related to diversity at UVM. UVM held its 10th annual Blackboard Jungle Symposium March 30 and 31. The symposium was hosted by Office of the Vice President for Human Resources, Diversity an...
Kake Walk: Alumni, faculty and students reflect on 73-year tradition
Bryan O'Keefe, Kelsey Neubauer, and Sarah Olsen
February 24, 2016
For 73 years, UVM fraternity members danced in blackface and satin tuxedos during the longest running winter carnival in the country. At its peak in the 1960s, this event, known as the Kake Walk, was held twice over a February weekend in the Patrick Gym in order to fit all 8,000 spectators, according...
UVM president hires chief of staff
February 3, 2016
The UVM administration organization chart has been shuffled to create a new position in the president’s office.President Tom Sullivan has hired his former co-worker from the University of Minnesota, Sharon Paulsen, to be his new chief of staff and senior counsel at the University of Vermont, Paulsen sa...
UVM Plans to Host Fundraising Campaign
September 29, 2015
President Tom Sullivan will be announcing the largest fundraising campaign in Catamount history Oct. 2 at 3 p.m. in the Davis Center Atrium, according to an email from the UVM Foundation. While the details are being spared until the release, the campaign is designed to give UVM a “better chance ...
Budget system approved
Aidan Breen
February 24, 2015
UVM has recently approved a new budget model which has left many students confused, they say. After a year-long discussion, the final report of the Incentive-Based Budget Model Steering Committee has gained approval. The IBB model was published on the IBB website and “collaboratively addresses many...
Board meeting incites protest
Hannah Kearns
February 10, 2015
Topics discussed at the Feb. 5-7 board of trustees meeting ranged from discussion of the new STEM complex, passage of the sustainability requirement and the implementation of the Incentive Based Budgeting model. A presentation was given to the board by professors David Jenemann and Luis Vivanco abo...
