Vermont State Colleges chancellor to recommend closing three campuses – VT Digger
The Vermont State Colleges could shutter three campuses and cut 500 employees under a radical restructuring proposal its leadership plans to bring to trustees in an effort to manage the pandemic’s financial fallout.
The plan would close down Northern Vermont University, which has campuses in Lyndon and Johnson, and consolidate Vermont Technical College’s operations onto its Williston campus. VTC would close its Randolph Center campus and deliver its programming using low-residency, regional delivery and distance learning methods.
The system’s residential, liberal arts programs, including many currently offered at NVU, would be delivered at Castleton University.
“I believe that if we didn’t make a tough decision, it was very likely that the Vermont State Colleges, which is a single corporation, would not be able to continue,” Chancellor Jeb Spaulding said in an interview.
Under the restructuring plan, the chancellor’s office — which has already cut four positions, according to Spaulding — would also be further downsized starting next year.