- Southern Vermont College
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website = [http://www.svc.edu/ Southern Vermont College]
footnotes = Located on the convert|371|acre|km2|sing=on former Edward Everett Estate on the slopes of Mount Anthony overlooking the town ofBennington, Vermont , Southern Vermont College is a private, four-year liberal arts college located in the southwestern corner of the state bordering New York and Massachusetts, convert|35|mi|km from Albany, New York, convert|45|mi|km from Tanglewood and Jacob's Pillow in the Berkshires in Massachusetts, and convert|40|mi|km from the Stratton Mountain Resort in the Green Mountains of Vermont.Overview
Southern Vermont College was founded in 1926 as St. Joseph Business School, a two-year institution offering certificates of proficiency in secretarial accounting, finance,short-hand and typewriting. Eleven students were in the first graduating class. In 1962, it became an accredited junior college, St. Joseph College, awarding associates degrees in business and secretarial science.
Twelve years later, in 1974, the school moved to its current location on the Everett Estate and became Southern Vermont College, a nonsectarian liberal arts college offering a career-directed curriculum. More details of the College's origins and history are contained within the 2007-2008 College Catalogue, available online at www.svc.edu/academics/catindex.html.
The 27-room Everett Mansion, now on the National Register of Historic Places, serves as the College's primary administrative and academic building. It hosts the library, theater, Success Center (tutorial assistance), Burgdorff Gallery Cafe, campus shop and eight classrooms, plus administrative offices.
The college currently has five residence halls, but in June the College broke ground on a convert|30000|sqft|m2|sing=on residence hall complex, Hunter Hall, that will be completed early in 2009 and accommodate 110 more residential students. The new residence center, situated on the slopes of Mt. Anthony with a spectacular view of the Green Mountains, will be both a living and learning facility, equipped with science and computer labs, study rooms, and a spacious atrium overlooking a newly restored pond.
Other notable buildings include the Dining Hall and Student Center, Field House with Fitness Center, and a 24-hour Computer Lab with wireless workstations for remote Internet access and high-speed data transfer.
Southern Vermont College is a member of the Vermont Campus Compact, affiliated with the national association of colleges that include community service, hands-on learning and civic engagement as part of their academic requirements. All first-year students at Southern Vermont College take "Quest for Success," a course that combines classroom instruction with off-campus community projects in such fields as environmental restoration, research on historic objects in the local museum work with a local theater company, and media studies with Community Access Television.
In the fall of 2008, the College is introducing a learn-by-doing program, "Build the Enterprise," through which students will create, implement and manage their own businesses, putting into real-life practice the theoretical business principles acquired in the classroom. The program will be capitalized by a $100,000 venture fund.
Facts
General Attributes
* Average class size: 13 Students
* 15:1 student-faculty ratio
* Approximately 520 students
* Students from 24 states and 5 foreign countries
* campus
* Total comprehensive fees (2007-2008): $24,900 a year (tuition, room and board)
* 93% of students receive financial aid; average aid package for students totals $12,525 a year
* 12 NCAA Division III intercollegiate sports teams
* The current female to male ratio is approximately 60:40Southern Vermont College offers five academic divisions: The McCormick Division of Business, The Hunter Division of Humanities, The Division of Nursing, The John Merck Division of Science and Technology and The Donald Everett Axinn Division of Social Sciences.
The college offers 19 academic degree programs. Bachelors degrees are offered in Business Administration/Management, Business Administration/Nonprofit Management, Business Administration/Sports Management, Communications, Creative Writing, Criminal Justice, English, History and Politics, Liberal Arts, Liberal Arts/Management, Nursing, Professional Studies, and Psychology. Associate degrees are offered in Business, Criminal Justice, Human Services, Liberal Arts, Nursing, and Radiologic Technology.
Southern Vermont College offers Division III athletics. Sports offered include baseball, basketball, cross country, rugby, soccer, softball, and volleyball. Currently, the school is looking to expand its athletics offerings to include golf, bowling and wrestling. The team name is the Mountaineers and the school mascot is Snidely the Rat.
Capital plan
Southern Vermont College plans to increase student enrollment from 400 to 600 over a three year period, while also improving the quality of the institution's academic, athletic and social offerings. While increasing enrollment, the college is aiming at keeping full time students at more than 80% of the enrolled population and seeks to increase first year retention to at least 65% and upper level blended retention to over 75%.
The college is also undertaking major fund raising for expansion of facilities and academic programs. Long term, the college hopes to build a second new residence hall, new academic building and a new dining hall/student center.
If enrollment growth continues as expected, the college will begin construction on another residence hall in January, 2009. When construction is complete, the college will have on-campus housing for 400 students.
Notable alumni
Col. James Baker '91, Director of Vermont State Police
Michael Donoghue '71, columnist for Burlington Free Press and adjunct professor of journalism at St. Michael's College
John Miller '82, founder and general manager of AutoRevenue.com
Benjamin Patten '84, co-host of WKLI's "Jay and Ben Magic in the Morning Show" on Magic 100.9 FM in Albany, N.Y.
Ira Wagner '83, executive vice president and chief operating officer of American Capital in Bethesda, Md.
Julian Nelson Reyes '84, TV and film actor ("Miami Vice" and "Suspect Zero" with Ben Kingsley and Carrie-Anne Moss)Notable faculty
Karen Gross, JD: President of Southern Vermont College
Albert C. DeCiccio, Ph.D: Provost
Tom Redden, Ph.D: Associate Professor of History and Politics
Greg Winterhalter, MFA: Associate Professor, Hunter Division of Humanities
Daniel Yalowitz, Ed.D: Associate Dean for Special Projects and Associate Professor of Psychology
James Beckwith, L.L.M.: Adjunct faculty, Mathematics
Marcie A. Roche, Ph.D: Adjunct faculty, Biology and MicrobiologyBoard of Trustees
Shaun Adams '01
Wallace W. Altes, chair
Joan Axinn
Steven Brody
Jon Goodrich
James J. Gozzo
Norman Greenberg
Karen Gross
Merritt Hewitt Jr. '85
Robert Howe
Randall B. Krum
Richard Lavariere '08
Raymond D. Lenoue
Scott McEnaney '01
Snidely Phillip Rackbar
Nancy Scattergood
Ira Wagner '83
Mary Wicker
Deborah WileySee also
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List of colleges and universities in the United States
* List of colleges and universities in VermontExternal links
* [http://www.svc.edu/ Southern Vermont College official website]
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