UVM one of first universities to end sales of bottled water
The University of Vermont will become one of the first institutions nationwide to end the sale of bottled water on campus and mandate that one-third of drinks offered in vending machines be healthy options.
Efficiency Vermont surcharge, a tax that benefits the many or the few?
For many individual businesses, the efficiency charge is a mixed bag. It increases the cost of doing business but it can really pay off in the form of rebates on big investments.
Shumlin: State investment in UVM needs to produce better results
I believe these spending strategies should focus on a set of priorities that require making some hard long-term choices.
University Staff Union offers support to UVM faculty union
The members of University Staff Union – seeking to represent the last group of non-unionized workers at the University of Vermont – stand in support of the university’s faculty as they open their latest round of bargaining.
UVM and Fletcher Allen staff speak out against golden parachutes
Today nurses, technical professionals, faculty and service workers from the University of Vermont and Fletcher Allen hospital spoke out against exorbitant executive salaries and golden parachutes when front-line workers are being asked to tighten their belts.
First annual conference on high school transformation to feature Ken Robinson
The Rowland Foundation is sponsoring the first annual Conference on High School Transformation on Thursday, September 22 at 8:30am at the University of Vermont in the Billings Library. The keynote address will be presented by the internationally acclaimed educator, Sir Ken Robinson.
Burlington residents demand end to timber industry greenwash
Over one hundred people gathered outside the Hilton today to protest the annual conference of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, a forest certification program run by the timber and paper industries.
Champlain College names Bruce Lisman as 2011 Distinguished Citizen
Lisman was born and raised in Burlington. A member of the University of Vermont Class of 1969, Lisman worked on Wall Street, but as he said in a recent interview, “I never left Vermont.”
Kreis: In defense of UVM’s legislator-trustees
The nine legislators who serve on the University of Vermont Board of Trustees deserve the same thing every Vermonter expects from her neighbors: the presumption of good faith, in the absence of concrete evidence to the contrary. Instead, these elected officials have been unfairly criticized by fellow politicians and others because the lawmakers approved the severance package that induced UVM President Dan Fogel to step down this month.
Pollina: Fogel’s severance package outrageous, unjustified
In the middle of all this belt tightening, and sacrifice, UVM, a supposedly public institution, getting taxpayer dollars, is rewarding someone who is leaving over $34,000 each month for 17 months to do nothing.
