Vermont Commons celebrates 25 years of engaging students with the world

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June 1, 2022
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VERMONT COMMONS CELEBRATES 25 YEARS OF ENGAGING STUDENTS WITH THE WORLD
Thriving unbiased faculty began with a imaginative and prescient and two rented rooms in an workplace constructing

South Burlington, VT — Vermont Commons Faculty (VCS), which opened its doorways to college students in 1997, will rejoice 25 years of world-class scholarship with an Anniversary Celebration and All-Class Reunion on Saturday, June eleventh, 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Alumni, household, buddies, and college are invited to reunite, reminisce, rejoice, and discover the increasing VCS campus, which now reaches far past these first two rooms.

Vermont Commons Faculty was the brainchild of educator Robert Skiff, Sr., former President of Champlain School, who, alongside along with his son Rob Skiff, Jr. and Leah Mital, constructed a college on a basis of rigorous lecturers mixed with a mission of world engagement and stewardship. The early years had been marked by arduous work, ardour, and a willingness among the many small school to leap in wherever they had been wanted. “There have been 5 of us, dealing with every part that we did,” recalled Rob Skiff, Jr. “I bear in mind interviewing the primary scholar we admitted, Mary Cotton, on the entrance porch of our home. We did admissions, drove the buses, made meals… all of it.”

In the present day, Vermont Commons has grown. In 2012, VCS bought the constructing at 75 Inexperienced Mountain Drive, which first housed the nascent faculty. In 2020, the varsity added a 55-acre parcel of land in Charlotte–a assorted and delightful panorama of fields, wetlands, and forest that had at one time been thought of for improvement–as an Outside Schooling Middle. And in late 2021, VCS was in a position to purchase 55 Inexperienced Mountain Drive, adjoining to the unique faculty constructing. The brand new constructing requires substantial retrofitting and renovations, which will probably be phased dependent upon fundraising.

“We’re thrilled to share our increasing campus with the VCS neighborhood and the broader neighborhood. It has taken the unabating efforts of so many individuals–founders, school, college students, alums, donors, board members–to assist us attain this 25-year milestone. With this development, we’re laying the groundwork for the following 25 years,” commented Dr. Dexter Mahaffey, Vermont Commons’ Head of Faculty.

VCS at the moment enrolls 109 college students in grades 6-12 and employs 26 workers members. Tutorial rigor continues to be an indicator of the varsity; members of the Class of 2022 earned acceptances at quite a lot of selective faculties and universities, together with Columbia College, Swarthmore School, Vassar School, Wesleyan College, Mount Holyoke School, Skidmore School, Reed School, Oberlin School, Virginia Tech, Smith School, and others.

Whereas many issues about Vermont Commons have modified in 25 years, the unique ardour, arduous work, and readiness to suppose exterior the field that characterised its early years stays the identical. Anybody strolling within the doorways immediately will discover the inspiring academics, effervescent creativity, and mental curiosity that’s readying the following technology of VCS college students to turn into residents of the world.

Extra details about Vermont Commons Faculty’s twenty fifth Anniversary Celebration and Reunion
could be discovered at www.vermontcommons.org/twenty fifth

For a whole schedule of occasions and to register, go to www.vermontcommons.org/twenty fifth/schedule

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Vermont Commons Faculty engages college students grades 6-12 with their world. We obtain this by applications and a curriculum grounded in native and world involvement.
Vermont Commons Faculty. Scholarship. Neighborhood. International Accountability.