| Southern Vermont College | |
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Everett Mansion, Southern Vermont College |
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| Established | 1926 |
| President | Karen Gross |
| Provost | Albert DeCiccio |
| Students | 500 |
| Location | Bennington, Vermont |
| Colors | Green and Gold |
| Website | Southern Vermont College |
Located on the 371-acre (1.50 km2) former Edward Everett Estate on the slopes of Mount Anthony overlooking the town of Bennington, 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, 35 miles (56 km) from Albany, New York, 45 miles (72 km) from Tanglewood and Jacob's Pillow in the Berkshires in Massachusetts, and 40 miles (64 km) from the Stratton Mountain Resort in the Green Mountains of Vermont.
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Southern Vermont College was founded in 1926 as St. Joseph Business School, an 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 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2) 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 fall 2008, the College introduced a learn-by-doing program, "Build the Enterprise," through which students create, implement and manage their own businesses, putting into real-life practice the theoretical business principles acquired in the classroom. The program was capitalized by a $100,000 venture fund.[1]
General Attributes[2]
Southern 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. Varsity sports offered include baseball, basketball, cross country, 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 Monte the Moose.
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. Hunter Hall, a new residence hall, was completed in August 2009. Long term, the college hopes to build a second new residence hall, a new academic building, new athletic field house and a new dining hall/student center.
The Board of Trustees consists of the following:[3]
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