Board of trustees affirms zero tuition increase in last meeting of the year
Lilly Page, Cynic News Reporter
May 20, 2020
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 worries, remembering a trustee who lost his life from COVID-19 complications and updates from...
Sustainability workgroup discusses potential future of UVM fossil fuel divestment
Lilly Page, Cynic News Reporter
April 27, 2020
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 meeting of the UVM board of trustees’ sustainability workgroup included a half an hour slot for the...
UVM trustee dies from COIVD-19 complications
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 a letter to the University community. Juskiewicz had served as the chair of the audit committee...
UVM asks for student input on divestment amidst pressure from campus groups
Emma Pinezich, Cynic News Reporter
April 5, 2020
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 trustees one thing: which side of history did they want to be on? Over the last two semesters, stu...
BOT selects new chair and discusses sustainability
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 served as vice chair of the board under David Daigle who stepped down as chair last month. Lumbra was...
Three takeaways from last week’s BOT meeting
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. UVM President Suresh Garimella unveiled a plan to freeze tuition last November. Both tuition a...
Tensions grow on board of trustees over gender equity and diversity
Sawyer Loftus and Emma Burnham
February 4, 2020
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 weighed in both the Vermont Statehouse and Senate, have left some on the board to call the mandat...
Following student action, trustee says he’s ready to divest
February 3, 2020
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 Organize, a group advocating against UVM’s $27 million investment in fossil fuel companies, fille...
Students protest UVM board’s refusal to divest UVM millions from fossil fuels
Cynic News Staff, News Staff
January 31, 2020
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 including SGA, Sunrise and Organize, a group advocating against UVM's $27 million investment in fossil fuel...
More women needed on board
November 6, 2019
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 of 2023 is 61.6% female, according to an Aug. 28 Cynic article. The decisions of the board of trustees...
Board of trustees lacks female representation despite majority female student population
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 and final meeting of 2019. Less than 25% of the members that met were women. The student body ...
Four takeaways from October 2019’s board of trustees meeting
October 29, 2019
The group that governs UVM met Oct. 25-26 on the University’s campus to discuss and vote on UVM’s future. The group, the board of trustees, meets three times per academic year in October, February and May. This will be President Suresh Garimella’s first board meeting. Here are four takeaways...
