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RANDOLPH Now that the money for scholarship opportunities and free tuition at the Vermont State Colleges System has been approved in the state’s fiscal 2022 budget, the system’s leaders
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Vermont Business Magazine Today Vermont State Colleges System Board of Trustees Chair Lynn Dickinson and Chancellor Sophie Zdatny were joined on Vermont Technical College’s Randolph campus by all four institution Presidents and the Vermont Student Assistance Corporation to announce additional scholarship and free tuition opportunities for Vermont students.
With Chancellor Zdatny and Chair Dickinson today were:
Marilyn Cargill, VSAC Vice President of Financial Aid Services, Marketing, and Research;
Jonathan Spiro, Interim President of Castleton University;
Joyce Judy, President of the Community College of Vermont;
Elaine Collins, President of Northern Vermont University; and
Patricia Moulton, President of Vermont Technical College.
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Vermont Business Magazine Castleton University recognized the class of 2021 at its 234th Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 15.
The Castleton community came together from across the country and around the world to celebrate this year s graduates virtually. The ceremony featured video remarks from student speakers, Castleton s president, chancellor of the Vermont State Colleges System, the Castleton Alumni Association, and several others. It also included heartfelt messages from faculty and staff, and conferring of degrees, with the graduating students names being read.
The ceremony began with a performance of the national anthem by senior Music Education majors Kristin Harris and Ariel Wade. A welcome by Interim President Dr. Jonathan Spiro followed, who spoke from an empty Casella Theater with flowers and flags representing the home countries of the graduates behind him.
Left side European bison / right side American bison.
(Beth Clifton collage)
Wenceslaus, 911-935, left bison alone. Successors alternately hunted & protected them.
BIALOWIEZA FOREST, Poland––European wood bison, also called wisent, at risk of extinction for far longer than their North American cousins, are no longer “vulnerable,” and have accordingly been removed from the “Red List” maintained by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
The century-long recovery of European wood bison from one small Polish herd demonstrates that large land-dwelling wildlife with huge habitat needs can co-exist with humans, where humans are willing to make room for them, even in regions from which the species have been extirpated centuries and even millennia before.