Guest editorial: Free CCV tuition is key to building Vermont’s workforce

We’ve long known that the most promising jobs in Vermont require education and training beyond high school. Yet too often, Vermonters seeking that education and workforce training cannot afford it.

The Community College of Vermont (CCV) and Vermont Student Assistance Corporation (VSAC) are expanding a program to provide Vermonters with a debt-free college degree.

Community College of Vermont Middlebury student Jodi Covey has been named a 2022 New Century Workforce Scholar and will receive a $1,250 scholarship.  

MONTPELIER — The Community College of Vermont (CCV) is hosting a free virtual Abenaki speaker series this spring. The series is part of CCV’s ongoing effort to honor the Abenaki people, who originally stewarded the land on which the College’s 12 academic … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — The Vermont Community Foundation announced that it has partnered with the Community College of Vermont (CCV) to expand pathways to promising jobs for high school seniors across the state. To help the Vermont high school class of 2022 chart an … (read more)

MONTPELIER — Beginning this fall, students will have four additional pathways to high-demand careers through new certificate programs at the Community College of Vermont (CCV). The new certificate offerings are afterschool and youth work, cybersecurity fu … (read more)

MONTPELIER — In response to uncertainties facing the Vermont high school class of 2021 as they plan for the future amid COVID-19, the Community College of Vermont (CCV) is giving students an extra month to enroll in its Early College program.   Early Coll … (read more)

MONTPELIER — Community College of Vermont (CCV) has announced its partnership with Green Up Vermont during 2020, when both organizations are celebrating 50 years of service to Vermonters and Vermont communities. Both CCV and Green Up Vermont were founded … (read more)

Sen. Ruth Hardy, D-Addison, has introduced a bill to create a Community College Scholarship Program that would provide tuition-free scholarships for Vermont residents attending CCV. It would, from the outset, require a $6 million appropriation. It’s a sma … (read more)

MONTPELIER — In honor of its upcoming 50th anniversary, Community College of Vermont (CCV) has received a generous gift of $50,000 from the J. Warren and Lois McClure Foundation to provide scholarships for Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) classes, which of … (read more)