There is a new face in The Academic Support Services Office. Student Development Coordinator Jesse Meunier comes to NVU-Johnson after graduating from NVU-Lyndon with a degree in psychology and human services....
Elaine Harvey will return to NVU-Johnson on Dec. 11 to become its first director of student engagement and persistence.The first time that Harvey was at Johnson was back in December of 2012, when she took...
On Oct. 21, the Long Range Planning Committee – comprised of members of the VSCS executive team, including the board of trustees and Chancellor Jeb Spaulding – released a memo highlighting the next...
On Tues, Nov. 5, NVU President Elaine Collins gave the President’s State of the University Address to a crowd in the Stearns Performance Space of mostly faculty and staff.
An invitation email...
As the process of removing old and out-of-date library resources at the Willey Library continues, the extent of the initiative remains unclear.
The process of removing older and out of date resources,...
One in three college students across the country don’t know where their next meal is going to come from. The Swipe Out Hunger program aims to change that.
The Swipe Out Hunger Program is a national...
Jenna’s Promise is a new organization in Johnson seeking to provide services for people in opioid use recovery and fill some broader community needs.
Dawn and Greg Tatro are the founders of Jenna’s...
After torrential flooding on Oct. 31, Johnson residents woke up on Nov. 1 to flooded backyards and washed-out roads. According to a Facebook post from Kyle Nuse, at 9:00 a.m, the Johnson select board passed...
Tensions involving the constant constriction of budgets has affected not only students, but staff and faculty as well. Some staff have taken it upon themselves to drive the efforts further. The Vermont...
Badger Alternative Breaks, also known as BAB, has set its two service trips for Feb. 2020, and both are unique opportunities for the participants involved in their respective groups.
One group of students...
On Oct. 21, members of Green Team, the campus sustainability club, met with NVU President Elaine Collins to discuss the possibility of NVU-Johnson working to become eligible to be invited into The EcoLeague,...
I didn’t know. I really didn’t know that taking ivory from elephants meant their deaths. I thought that poachers took part of the ivory, but left the animals alive. That’s not exactly better, but...
Editors Note: This is the first in an occasional series featuring students writing about their jobs. Most of those attending NVU work part-time or full-time in addition to their studies.
Most people...
The President’s Student Advisory Council is an assembly of students across campus whose goal is to provide insight to the student experience, as well as improve and add to campus life that was once missing....
A question posed by philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah sparked inspiration in Stephanie Seguino, an artist and economist. “What do we owe strangers by virtue of our shared humanity?” Appiah asked in...
Bad weather housing is now available for commuter students.
As winter approaches, the need for safe travel plans and resources that can be used in the event of unforeseen circumstances grows. Adopted...
Opioid use disorder is a disease, not a personal failing, said Kate O’Neill, and the stigma attached to it makes it harder to get treatment.
“We saw again and again peoples’ faces change when...
As of Oct 25, NVU-Johnson has received about $28,000 in parking permit sales, with incoming students asking the perennial question: where does the money go?
In the 2017/2018 academic year, there were...
You may have noticed the odd sculpture that appeared a few weeks ago on the quad- it’s made mostly of tires, stacked on top of each other to resemble a figure; dirty and decerped items litter around...
WLLC room 217 has been dark since the semester’s beginning, despite plans for the former main computer lab in WLLC to have become the largest site for telepresence on campus by summer’s end.
As the...
The white-nationalist group, Patriot Front, has made its presence on campus known after stickers advertising the group has been seen in several locations on campus within the first week of October.
A...
On Sep. 26, water was shut off to the campus apartment complex in order to fix “a water line break,” according to an email from Barb Flathers. It was projected that the maintenance would take two hours,...
News of a 2.9 percent tuition increase approaching is just riding the shirttails of the press release by the VSCS affirming its support of both NVU campuses to remain open. Along with endorsing a two-campus...
Provost Nolan Atkins has announced that the NVU faculty has “approved a new organizational structure for our academic programs.” All majors will now be reorganized into groups, known as schools. These...
The following quote about Sasquatch is a bit long and unwieldy. But Christopher Noël thought it was important enough to edit it as he spoke, even dictating to me where to put parentheses and semicolons.
“Either...
Composting on campus has been successful despite a few missteps, including an incident during opening weekend when non-compostable material was found in four compost receptacles. The issue was that there...
The student hub is a source of information and guidance for students to simplify the process of acquiring information about the services and offices available to them.
The new initiative was created...
Despite lamentations on an Instagram account about pervasive pasta prevalence in Stearns, General Manager of Dining Services Tom Fondakowski wants you to know that, in the dining hall, vegans get love...
One of the oft-spoken about benefits of unification, the addition of new majors, has, in the past, been overlooked in order to focus on more crucial pieces of the task. Now that the main parts of uniting...
Back in May, it was announced that tuition for students in the VSCS would be going up by 1 percent, after $2.5 million in state support funding brought the hikes down from 3 percent.
The reduction to...
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