As president of the Community College of Vermont, I welcome you to CCV s home on the World Wide Web. Goals change along the way as students encounter new ideas and people. It s easy to name the more obvious ways in which a college or university has impact on its community.
Students buy gasoline, and food, and entertainment, and clothing.
And, there s the enrichment of the community s intellectual and cultural life through special events. While these are wonderful ways in which the community benefits, there are other things to recognize. Community College of Vermont has been community-focused since our inception, a college created to serve the people of Vermont where they live. The name we bear gives us instant identity with our community, which we define in the broad sense as the state of Vermont and in the local sense as the communities in which our 12 learning sites live. Students and instructors are neighbors, local businesses distribute our course lists, and word of mouth is still one of our best marketing strategies.