Vermont State Colleges Trustees approve consolidation, campuses to stay open
The Vermont State College System Board of Trustees have voted to move forward with the proposal outlined by the state’s Select Committee on the Future of Public Higher Education in Vermont. The proposal will unify the three residential colleges, Castleton University, Northern Vermont University, and Vermont Technical College, under a common accreditation in Academic Year 2023-2024 while maintaining the Community College of Vermont as a separate institution. Additionally, the system will streamline services across the institutions through significant administrative consolidation. The board said it is committed to maintaining the current campus locations. A single president of the consolidated colleges would take over by January 2022.
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Food, farm plan aims to boost economic output by 26% by 2030
February 8, 2021 GMT
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) A new strategic plan released Monday aims to increase the economic output of the Vermont food system by 26% and add 5,000 new jobs by 2030.
The Vermont Agriculture and Food System Strategic Plan 2021-2030 identifies 15 goals.
The first plan covered 2011 to 2020. During that time frame, Vermont’s food system economic output expanded 48% to $11.3 billion and 6,560 net new food related jobs were added, the plan states.
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The Legislature and Gov. Phil Scott reauthorized the Farm to Plate Investment Program in 2019 with the legislation’s goals of increasing economic development and jobs in the food and farm industry; improving soils, water and resiliency of the working landscape in the face of climate change; and improving access to healthy local foods for all Vermonters, the plan states.
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Courtesy photos of report cover, below, and of Lincoln Peak Vineyard. Download the Vermont Agriculture and Food System Strategic Plan 2021-2030 at www.vtfarmtoplate.com/plan.
Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund through its Farm to Plate Initiative, and the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets (VAAFM) have released the Vermont Agriculture and Food System Strategic Plan 2021-2030.
With over 1,500 Vermonters providing input and helping to shape its content over an 18-month period, the Plan lays out a vision, 15 goals, 34 priority strategies, and 276 recommendations for advancing the agriculture and food system in Vermont. Focus groups with over 120 Vermont industry members such as beef, dairy, sheep and goat, maple, vegetable and berry producers, Vermont Cheese Council board members, farmers market managers, specialty food association members, and Farm to School leaders were also convened to give input that helped sha