Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween from the CCV Burlington Staff!

(From left to right: CCV Staff members Aimee Loiter, Marianne DiMascio, Margaret Dorey, & Amy Stuart)

CCV Burlington in the news

CCV Burlington’s search for a new location in Chittenden County has been in the local news a bit lately. Check out the following stories and feel free to leave comments regarding this topic here.

CCV seeks Chittenden County site (from Burlington Free Press)

CCV Narrows Choices (from WCAX TV)

CCV students explore "Crazy"

To acknowledge National Disability Awareness month, on Friday, October 26th in CCV's famed LL-7 classroom, students from Glen Hueckel's Abnormal Psychology and Kate Maynard's Interpersonal and Small Group Communications classes watched "Crazy" a performance art piece created and performed by Gail Marlene Schwartz. A panel discussion followed with guests from Mental Health Education Initiative, Vermont Protection & Advocacy and a local psychotherapist. Students explored questions of stigma and meaning about anxiety and depression via the discussion and an interactive workshop which included a spectogram, poems and speaking body sculptures!

In response to "How did your understanding grow about mental illness?" CCV student Kaz explained "The feeling is expansiveness, wonderfully open with a comfort in the lack of clear answers." Stacy wrote "Mental illness is more common than I thought and it is ok to open up to others." Kellie concluded "It seems everybody is effected by depression somehow."

Thank you to Gail and CCV Coordinator of Academic Services Yasmine Zielser who planned the event, to Glen and Kate who found the very real connections between the program and their course content, to the amazing CCV students who took the material and shaped it with their own stories and finally to the producer, VSA Arts of Vermont and the funder, the Vermont Community Foundation.

Scholarship Opportunity

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation annually offers around 50 scholarships nationally for students transferring from a two-year program to a four-year program. The scholarships are worth up to $30,000 annually and selected recipients may receive up to three years of the scholarship. In order to be considered, all applicants must meet the minimum qualifications which are available here.

Applications for this scholarship can be downloaded here. Completed applications and questions regarding the scholarship should be submitted to Pam Chisholm, CCV’s Director of Financial Aid at the address below:

Pam Chisholm, Director of Financial Aid
Community College of Vermont, Waterbury
P.O. Box 120
Waterbury, VT 05676-0120

Hallway Gallery Committee needs members

Attendtion students! Consider joining CCV Burlington's Hallway Gallery Committee and help choose the Visiting Artists who display at the Burlington site. Email your name and phone number along with one paragraph explaining why you are interested in being on the committee to Karen Geiger at geigerk@ccv.edu. No formal art training or knowledge is required, just a desire to learn. And hey, isn’t that the reason we’re all here? Please submit by November 9th, 2007.

Want to suggest an artist for a Hallway Gallery exhibit (perhaps even yourself)? If so, click here for more information on CCV Burlington's Hallway Galleries.