Norm McElvany sits behind his desk, glasses perched on his nose as he talks. Although he hasn’t found any lost national artifacts (that he disclosed) or has been chased by violent cult members...
During her annual State of the College conversation on Nov. 4, JSC President Barbara Murphy discussed the continuing decline in enrollment, presented an overview of the college’s progress...
The Athletics and Recreation Department at JSC is starting to move forward on a large scale five year plan to upgrade and enhance many aspects of sports and recreation on campus.
“We...
On Thursday, Oct. 24, Johnson State College hosted its annual fall American Red Cross Blood Drive. Students, staff, faculty and community members combined for 122 appointments that produced...
The impact of global increases of carbon dioxide due to fossil fuel use, and increases of methane and nitrous oxide due to agriculture is the primary factor that many scientists believe could...
The snowboard park is undergoing significant renovations in preparation for winter with the Ski and Ride Club using money raised from the October Fest RailJam to help fund excavations in the park.
Preliminary...
At the end of each school year one of the awards conferred at Honors Convocation recognizes excellence in advising and highlights a faculty/staff function that is easy to overlook yet often crucial in...
Freshmen and Transfer students who have yet to complete the AlcoholEdu and Haven initiatives will be contacted by Assistant Dean of Students Michele Whitmore within the next couple of weeks.
Typically...
Provocative acronym aside, Student Led Activity Programming, which is behind many of the Student Government Association-sponsored activities on campus, is a concept that has gone back decades...
JSC Alcohol Awareness Week, which concluded Oct. 26, has seen an expansion of the traditional focus on education and prevention to include providing ongoing healthy alternatives to drinking.
The...
Community Journalism Day attracted exactly the sort of curiousity that the day’s panelists said is the crucial ingredient in journalism.
The day consisted of four panels and...
The first official 2013 enrollment figures present a mixed picture. Although overall enrollment numbers continue to decline, the most significant drops are within the campus-based undergraduate population.
While...
From April 6 to April 11, 13 freshmen and two upperclassmen will be taking a service trip to Detroit along with Executive Director of Laraway School Greg Stefanski and Johnson State’s Learning Resource...
Most people only hear second-hand about the discussions brought to the United Nations. Hard decisions on what to do, if anything, about allegations of chemical weapons used on Syrian citizens or how to...
Renewable solar energy is coming to Johnson State College in partnership with the Burlington-based company Encore Redevelopment at no cost to students.
Over the course of the summer, Johnson State College...
Cuts in the SGA budget and their effects on funding student clubs, events and projects dominated the Oct. 23 meeting of the Student Government Association.
"We took a big hit in our budget because of...
Work on enhancing outdoor lighting on campus continues as six new poles have been installed in several places on the main campus during the past few weeks. In addition upgrades to existing installations...
The Anime club will be bringing 10 students to the only Anime convention in Vermont, Bakuretsu con, which will be held in the Hampton Inn in Colchester Nov.1-3.
For the club, this is the biggest event...
JSC held its first open house of the year to entice undecided college-bound seniors to choose its rural campus setting as their home for the next four years of their lives. The Oct. 19 Saturday morning...
Sodexo, Johnson State College’s food supplier, planned on cutting benefits for a number of employees on Jan. 1.
Sodexo said it was doing so in accordance with the federal Affordable Care Act, popularly...
The adjustment from military life and culture to the radically different college environment can be a difficult one for United States military veterans, especially for ones who have served in combat.
Responding...
After a two-year hiatus, Community Journalism Day will once again be held at Johnson State College as an event sponsored by the Communications and Community Media program and the Community Media Project...
Johnson State College will host a memorial celebration of former Professor of Humanities, Eugene Sapadin, who taught at JSC for 39 years before retiring in spring of 2011. The event will begin at 2...
The Vermont Historical Society presented its 2013 President’s Award to Senator William Doyle and has established the William T. Doyle History Day Fund in his honor.
Doyle has been a professor of humanities...
Johnson State College students should not be affected by the government shut down that was triggered by the start of the new budget year on Oct. 1, 2013, and a lack of support from republicans for the...
The 3-year-old student-run Finance and Investment Club is preparing for another semester-long Vermont Showdown following two wins and last year’s near-extinction due to declining interest.
The...
After growing up in Enosburg, VT and working as director of technology at the Enosburg Town School District, JSC’s Head Women's Softball Coach Robert Gervais will step up to the plate as Johnson...
Johnson State’s community radio station is starting the semester out strong with a lot of new DJs and increasing coverage of campus and community events.
WJSC, restarted in 2012 after a year off air,...
The JSC community garden, which has been located behind the college apartments for seven years, is being resurrected after a 3-year hiatus.
The initial idea for resurrection cropped up a few years ago...
In a new partnership with Vermont Public Television, JSC will be pre-airing documentaries from the series “Independent Lens” throughout the school year as part of VPT’s “Community Cinema”...
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