An Interview With Jesse

(this post was written by Kyle on August 22, 2008, and it concerns & & )

From ASSHE’s Interview Series: Jesse Pyles, Service-Learning & Sustainability Coordinator at Green Mountain College: “In this second installment of the AASHE Interview Series we have the opportunity to hear from Jesse Pyles, the Service-Learning & Sustainability Coordinator at Green Mountain College.” [FYI: You all have seen Jesse making comments on Fluid Imagination, but if you [...]

Somebody Get Me A Sustainability Coordinator!

(this post was written by Kyle on April 29, 2008, and it concerns & & & & )

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 [...]

I’m Getting Too Old For This

(this post was written by Kyle on April 22, 2008, and it concerns & & )

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 [...]

GMC names new president

(this post was written by Kyle on February 29, 2008, and it concerns )

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.”

College narrows search for chief

(this post was written by Kyle on February 8, 2008, and it concerns & & )

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 [...]

Once & Again: A Workshop in Creative Revision

(this post was written by Kyle on January 29, 2008, and it concerns & & & & )

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 [...]

Servin’ it Up

(this post was written by Kyle on April 6, 2007, and it concerns & )

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 [...]

A New Arrival At Green Mountain College

(this post was written by Kyle on March 30, 2007, and it concerns )

GMC Journal - Week of 12/04/06

(this post was written by Kyle on December 13, 2006, and it concerns & )

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.”

GMC Drug Bust

(this post was written by Kyle on December 6, 2006, and it concerns & )

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.”