New study recommends state colleges unify, receive 50% more funding
Castleton University, Northern Vermont University and Vermont Technical College should all become one school, and the state should more than double its investment in the state college system, at least in the short term.
Those are the key items in a long-awaited package of preliminary recommendations issued Friday, Dec. 4, by a special legislative panel.
Financial problems at the long-ailing Vermont State Colleges came to a head this spring, when then-Chancellor Jeb Spaulding recommended three campuses be closed to balance the books in the wake of the pandemic. The idea led to swift and fierce public backlash, Spaulding resigned, and lawmakers pledged to do what it took to get the system through the year.
But state officials, including Gov. Phil Scott, also made clear they expected the system to undergo a major overhaul to get back on to a more sustainable path, and lawmakers assigned a committee to recommend a way forward.
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