College News

This September, over 200 first-year students arrived at ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College in Vermont.

Holly Andersen, project manager for the Planning Office, was the staff speaker at Convocation 2018. She shared her career over the course of nearly a decade spent at ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø, reflected upon her experiences as a first-generation college student, and encouraged students to take advantage of the family found on campus.

Michael Dumanis was the faculty speaker at Convocation 2018. He charged the campus community with stretching their expectations to "swerve, and get overwhelmed and lost, and make a few discoveries along the way, and find yourself at least a little changed."

On September 4, 2018, the ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø community gathered to celebrate the start of the academic year and welcome over 200 new first-year students to the College.

Eve Mefferd '19, chair of the , was the student speaker at Convocation 2018. She spoke about the "enormous potential for creating leverage points" for which ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø's flexible curriculum and student-centered education allows.