April 29, 2008 – 12:17 pm
So, I was reading an article on Alternet this morning entitled, “We Must Imagine a Life Without Oil.” It’s basically a warning about peak oil, but near the end, the author, Mark Hertsgaard, writes:
Activists in scores of towns and cities around the world are trying to prepare their communities for the transition to a post-oil [...]
April 22, 2008 – 12:26 pm
Sorry about the lack of posting these last few days, but it’s been Alumni Week here in Poultney-town, and we’ve had house-guests and old-friends-visiting galore.
The “weekend” started on Wednesday, when our friends Alex and Tempest arrived from Ann Arbor, Michigan.
We hadn’t seen Alex since graduation, and hadn’t ever met Tempest in person, but since those [...]
February 29, 2008 – 03:42 pm
From the Rutland Herald’s GMC names new president: “The Board of Trustees of Green Mountain College in Poultney announced today that Paul J. Fonteyn has been named president of GMC, effective July 1. Fonteyn is currently the provost and senior vice chancellor of academic affairs at the University of Massachusetts Boston.”
February 15, 2008 – 03:27 pm
I’ve had a couple of requests from various people at Green Mountain College to establish a kind of independently-run forum where the faculty, staff, and students can all have a place to weigh in on the college’s search for a new President. ‘Cause I’m a sucker for any request having to do with this website, [...]
February 8, 2008 – 01:06 pm
From the Rutland Herald’s College narrows search for chief: “Green Mountain College is getting close to choosing the future president of the school after recently rounding their list of finalists down to four: Don Bantz (provost of Evergreen State College), Paul Fonteyn (provost at UMass Boston), Robert Huntington (an executive with 21 years of experience [...]
January 29, 2008 – 08:00 am
Last night, I began teaching my first college-level class as part of my graduate program’s degree requirements. I’m running a small workshop in short-story writing entitled, “Once & Again: A Workshop in Creative Revision.” I’ve got five undergraduate students and one post-grad student who will be participating in the class over the Internet. They’ll each [...]
Posted by Jesse over on Servin’ it Up “Dawn [FI Readers: yep, that Dawn] and I run the Office of Service-Learning & Sustainability at Green Mountain College — i.e., we get to hang out with the cool kids. We’re going to use this blog to keep you posted on happenings from our office. So if [...]
December 13, 2006 – 12:59 pm
From GMC Journal: “The Poultney Partners Mentoring Club is happy to announce that the club is a recipient of a $2,500 grant from The Vermont Mentors!….Renee Beaupre-White and Dawn Sarli applied for the grant to assist in areas of supervision and club materials for one year, beginning December 1st.”
December 6, 2006 – 10:55 am
From the Uh-Oh Department: “A first-year student at Green Mountain College in Poultney has been expelled from school and is facing criminal charges after police said they found about one-half pound of marijuana and about eight amphetamine pills in her dorm room.”
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