More cuts to majors, minors and departments may come after UVM’s board of trustees pushed forward with plans Friday to reevaluate low-enrollment programs across the University.
During the board’s...
The UVM board of trustees will not increase tuition for the upcoming 2020-2021 school year despite mounting COVID-19 related expenses.
The board, led by Chair Ron Lumbra, also discussed UVM’s monetary...
A meeting that was supposed to include discussion about campus input on divestment resulted in the members scarcely touching the topic, before moving on to the next step in their agenda.
The second...
Sawyer Loftus, News and Sports Editor
• April 9, 2020
A member of UVM's board of trustees and former state representative died Wednesday from complications relating to COVID-19.
Bernie Juskiewicz, 77, died April 8, according to a UVM webpage that contains...
On a Friday afternoon when many students might be gearing up for the weekend, over 100 others chose to pack themselves behind a partition in the Silver Maple Ballroom.
They came to ask the board of...
Sawyer Loftus, News and Sports Editor
• March 2, 2020
UVM’s board of trustees have selected a new chair and agreed to form a new working group to study sustainability, at its March 2 meeting.
Ron Lumbra was selected to steer the board. He previously...
Irene Choi, Cynic News Reporter
• February 5, 2020
Here are three takeaways from the board of trustees’ Budget, Finance and Investment Committee meeting Jan. 31.
1. A motion to freeze next academic year’s tuition rate was discussed by the committee....
Despite a push from the Vermont Legislature to make half of the UVM board of trustees members female or nonbinary, the board has signaled its resistance.
The potential new law, which is currently being...
After two demonstrations by student activists over the span of three months, at least one UVM trustee has said he’s ready to divest.
Students from organizations including SGA, the Sunrise Movement and...
At least 100 students, faculty and community members filled the final session of the February 2020 board of trustees meeting to call for UVM to divest from fossil fuels.
Students from organizations...
The student population at UVM is currently 59.9% female, but barely a quarter of the board’s 25 trustees are women.
As of fall 2018, 55.9% of faculty and staff combined at UVM were female. The class...
Emma Pinezich, Assistant News Editor
• November 5, 2019
Nineteen of the 25 individuals that sit on UVM’s board of trustees are men at a university where women make up the majority.
UVM’s board of trustees met Oct. 24-25 in the Davis Center for its third...
