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'''The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College,''' or simply "The University of Vermont," is a [[public university]] located in [[Burlington, Vermont]], USA. The university was chartered at the impetus of [[Ira Allen]] in 1791, under the name "'''University of the Green Mountains'''," or in Latin ''Universitas Viridis Montis'' ('''UVM'''), and is the fifth oldest college in New England, after [[Brown University]] (1764), [[Dartmouth College]] (1769), [[Harvard College]] (1636), and [[Yale University]] (1701). Ira Allen founded the University the year Vermont achieved statehood and ceased being the [[Vermont Republic]]. In 1865, the university merged with Vermont Agricultural College (chartered [[November 22]], [[1864]], after the passage of the [[Land-Grant College Act]]). The University of Vermont is one of the Original Eight Public Ivies. However, it is not listed as a [[Public Ivy]] according to Greenes' Guides.
'''The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College,''' or simply "The University of Vermont," is a [[public university]] located in [[Burlington, Vermont]], USA. The university was chartered at the impetus of [[Ira Allen]] in 1791, under the name "'''University of the Green Mountains'''," or in Latin ''Universitas Viridis Montis'' ('''UVM'''), and is the fifth oldest college in New England, after [[Brown University]] (1764), [[Dartmouth College]] (1769), [[Harvard College]] (1636), and [[Yale University]] (1701). Ira Allen founded the University the year Vermont achieved statehood and ceased being the [[Vermont Republic]]. In 1865, the university merged with Vermont Agricultural College (chartered [[November 22]], [[1864]], after the passage of the [[Land-Grant College Act]]). The University of Vermont was an Original Eight [[Public Ivy]] institution.


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"UVM" redirects here. For other uses, see UVM (disambiguation).
The University of Vermont
File:UVMsigillum.jpg
MottoStudiis et Rebus Honestis
(Template:Lang-la)
TypePublic university
Established1791
Endowment$244,267,000[1]
PresidentDaniel Mark Fogel
Undergraduates9,859[1]
Postgraduates1,351
Location
Burlington
,
Vermont
,
U.S.
CampusBurlington, 450 acres (1.82 km²)
ColorsGreen and Gold    
NicknameCatamounts
Websitewww.uvm.edu
File:University of Vermont logo.png

The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, or simply "The University of Vermont," is a public university located in Burlington, Vermont, USA. The university was chartered at the impetus of Ira Allen in 1791, under the name "University of the Green Mountains," or in Latin Universitas Viridis Montis (UVM), and is the fifth oldest college in New England, after Brown University (1764), Dartmouth College (1769), Harvard College (1636), and Yale University (1701). Ira Allen founded the University the year Vermont achieved statehood and ceased being the Vermont Republic. In 1865, the university merged with Vermont Agricultural College (chartered November 22, 1864, after the passage of the Land-Grant College Act). The University of Vermont was an Original Eight Public Ivy institution.

Estimated cost for a full time student for the 2007-08 school year is $22,490 for Vermont residents, and $38,604 for non-residents.[2]

The Williams Science Hall at the University of Vermont, c. 1902. Today Williams Hall houses the departments of Fine Arts and Anthropology.

The University of Vermont's 451-acre campus is located on a hilltop overlooking the city of Burlington, Lake Champlain, Vermont's Green Mountains to the east and New York's Adirondack Mountains to the west. The largest hospital complex in Vermont, Fletcher Allen Health Care, has its primary facility adjacent to the UVM campus and, along with Maine Medical Center, is affiliated with the UVM College of Medicine.

Academics

Old Mill, the first building of the university

The University of Vermont comprises seven undergraduate schools and colleges, an honors college, a graduate college, and a college of medicine. Each school and college offers degrees in a variety of majors or concentrations, most through the masters or doctoral level. Core requirements vary according to major. The Honors College does not offer its own degrees; students in the Honors College concurrently enroll in one of the university's seven undergraduate colleges or schools.

Bachelors, masters, and doctoral programs are offered through the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Education and Social Services, the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, the College of Medicine, the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, the Graduate College, the School of Business Administration, and The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources.

The university's Division of Continuing Education offers an array of certificates and specialized programs in partnership with various departments at the university. One may also find non-credit courses, opportunities for specialized training programs for businesses and online courses listed on the Continuing Education website [1]



College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) program focuses on life sciences that make a difference in people's lives, from improving the safety and quality of the nation's food supply to studying DNA as part of AIDS and cancer research to stewarding the environment. Students can explore the majors of CALS as they pertain to their interests. The four primary majors include “Communities, People, and Food,” “Microbes and Molecules,” “Animals,” and “Plants.” There are a variety of choices within each of these areas of study. UVM’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences also offers graduate programs with M.S., M.S.T., M.A.T., M.P.A, and PhD degrees. CALS is also home to the Center for Rural Studies.

College of Education and Social Services

UVM's College of Education and Social Services offers a full range of teacher education, early childhood development and social work studies. The college aims to assist students in becoming professionals who serve the education, social development, and human service needs of institutions, young people, families, and communities in Vermont, the nation and globally.

The College comprises the Department of Integrated Professional Services, Department of Education, Department of Social Work, and the Center for Disability and Community Inclusion. The college offers a broad range of programs ranging from early childhood to higher education, the individual to the family, and cognitive development to physical development.

Graduate students can pursue a post-baccalaureate certificate, a certificate of advance study, masters degrees in education, science, and social work, or a doctoral degree in education.

College of Engineering and Mathematics

Within UVM's College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (CEMS), the phrase "in service to humanity" is an organizing principle for all programs of study, which include engineering, computer science and mathematics. A sense of social relevance and social responsibility is pervasive throughout the College.

CEMS offers distinctive undergraduate and graduate programs of national stature in engineering, computer science and mathematics, emphasizing unity of knowledge in a liberal education context, and preparing graduates for leadership roles in society as well as in their chosen profession.

The College is a treasured resource for the state of Vermont and is marked by faculty excellence and innovation in both education and scholarship, and by creative students disciplined in academic rigor, continuous self-discovery, effective communication, critical thinking and socially responsible decision making in order to build a sustainable future as members of the global community.

College of Medicine

File:University of Vermont College of Medicine logo.png

In 1804, John Pomeroy began teaching students in his house in Burlington, as the first medical department at a State College or University. In 1822, the College of Medicine was established as the seventh medical college in the United States. Its founders were Pomeroy and the pioneering medical educator Nathan Smith.

UVM enrolls around 100 medical students in each class. There are approximately 400 medical students total. Fletcher Allen Health Care is the primary clinical resource. Additional training takes place at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine and Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh, New York.

The UVM College of Medicine ranked 7th for overall quality in primary care training among the country’s top 125 medical schools according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2008 graduate school rankings. [2]

College of Nursing and Health Sciences

The College of Nursing and Health Sciences' (CNHS) intimate size combined with the setting of a major research university adjacent to a regional medical center creates an ideal academic environment for health sciences. Hands-on learning in the many facilities fulfills every student's desire for clinical training. Students from the various departments and programs graduate as qualified agents of health and change for any healthcare system.

The College of Nursing and Health Sciences at UVM contains three distinct departments, each offering its own unique contribution to the health field. The departments include “Nursing,” the “Medical Laboratory and Radiation Sciences,” and “Rehabilitation and Movement.” All of these departments offer multiple majors for those interested in health and healthcare.

Honors College

The Honors College offers an intensely focused, academically challenging environment for some of the university's most outstanding undergraduate students. With an honors residence hall in the heart of campus, the college provides students with an intellectually stimulating climate in which to pursue their studies. This residence hall is LEED certified, making it not only healthy to live in, but environmentally friendly.

The college sponsors numerous opportunities for students to participate in co-curricular programs and extra-curricular activities — special symposia, dinners with visiting scholars, trips to museums and theaters in Montreal and Boston, as well as weekly social events. Students also benefit from special privileges, including early course registration, an extended borrowing period at university libraries and discounted tickets to performing arts events through the Lane Series.

Accomplished faculty from throughout the university participate in the Honors College as lecturers in a first-year ethics course and advanced seminars, participants in reading groups, speakers at the Plenary Lecture Series, and mentors to honors students conducting research.

Through a required ethics course, small seminars, informal gatherings, and special research projects, students work alongside scholars from a broad section of the university's academic disciplines in the humanities, the sciences, engineering, nursing, medicine, education, business and more.

The Honors College is led by Dr. S. Abu Turab Rizvi (Dean/Associate Professor of Economics) and Dr. Kelvin Chu (Associate Dean/Associate Professor of Physics)

Rubenstein School of Environmental and Natural Resources

The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources seeks to cultivate an appreciation and enhanced understanding of ecological and social processes and values aimed at maintaining the integrity of natural systems and achieving a sustainable human community in harmony with the natural environment. We pursue this goal by generating and broadly disseminating knowledge and by challenging students, colleagues, and citizens to acquire knowledge, skills, and values to become innovative, environmentally responsible, and accountable leaders. Excitement for discovery and a commitment to life-long learning are central. Our emphasis on the integration of natural science and cultural perspectives reflects the interdisciplinary context in which ecosystem management, resource planning, and environmental concerns must be addressed.


In 2007, the university won a $6.7 million grant to research the pollution problems of Lake Champlain.[3]

History

From the 1890's through 1969, UVM was host to the then famous "Kake Walk."[3] While the 80 plus year event is controversial, it is a part of the university's history and marks one of the early opportunities that students united and brought about change.[4] A further example of the University of Vermont's progressive students making progress happen was the 1988 student takeover of the Waterman building. [5] This original takeover of the Waterman building did not produce results and the students proceeded to take over the Presidents office. Arbitration affected some of the racial and diversity issues the students brought to the forefront. A lack of follow-through brough the more (in)famous Waterman Building Takeover of 1991 which lasted 3 weeks, and brought a longer list of demands including the removal of Ira Allens statue, which, became a key issue that drew general student support away from the protesting students.[6]

The college offices at 438 College Street were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[4]

2,494 students graduated in 2007:[5]

  • Undergraduate - 9,919
  • Masters - 401
  • Doctorates - 57
  • Medical - 97

Total enrollment = 11,597

The University adopted a $251 million budget for the 2007-08 academic year[6] or $21,643 per enrollee.

The university, as an eligible non-profit organization, pays no local real estate taxes but receives all the normal city services. In 2007, the college agreed to raise it's annual payment from $456,006 to $912,011 in 2010 plus a "public works" supplement rising from $180,040 to $191,004 over the same time frame.[7]

Athletics

File:University of Vermont athletic logo.png

The school's sports teams are called the Catamounts, any of various feline animals such as a mountain lion, cougar or puma. UVM is one of only two schools in the United States with this mascot, the other being Western Carolina University in North Carolina. The school colors are green and gold. Soccer, lacrosse, hockey and basketball are the school's primary spectator sports. Field play takes place at the school's Centennial Field.

UVM's varsity teams participate in the NCAA's Division I America East Conference and the Hockey East. The University of Vermont discontinued participating in football in 1974[8]

The men's basketball team defeated Syracuse University in the first round of the 2005 NCAA Tournament, earning their first victory in three consecutive trips to the event. Although the Catamounts won the America East Conference (2007) and made their fifth straight championship game appearance, they lost to Albany in the conference tournament and settled for a bid in the 2007 NIT.

The UVM ski teams have won five national championships.[9]. The team has also produced 51 individual national champions including cross-country relay teams, Jamie Kingsbury and Greg Hardy swept the Giant Slalom most recently in 2005 [10]. The team has produced 278 All-Americans and 66 US Ski Team members. [11].

There are several club sports teams. The UVM crew team competes in the Head of the Charles Regatta and Dad Vail Regatta. The Cycling Team competes against other collegiate varsity teams. The UVM sailing team was competitively ranked 15th in the nation in 2007.[12][13]

In 2007, a club football team began participating in the NIFL (North-east Independent Football League) Semi Pro Football League.[citation needed]

Arts

UVM's Lane Performing Arts Series and Music Department sponsor instrumental and choral performances featuring national and international performers throughout the year. The Robert Hull Fleming Museum hosts traveling exhibits and displays of the museum's extensive fine art and ethnographic collections. The Royall Tyler Theatre presents mainstage productions of varied themes, often featuring Equity actors along with student talent. In 1974 Professor William Metcalfe cofounded the Vermont Mozart Festival with Melvin Kaplan. Though the Festival was incorporated as a separate non-profit organization in 1976, its ties to Metcalfe and UVM have remained.

Student life

Concerts

The University’s Concert Bureau (a.k.a. SA Concerts) is responsible for bringing quality live musical entertainment for the entire UVM community. SA Concerts features acts from across the country as well as local bands. The SA funded club comprises an elected bureau of students who learn about the various aspects of the music industry by putting on shows and working with local sound and production professionals. Students are in charge of choosing and booking bands and are responsible for all production aspects on the day of show.

UVM’s Concert Bureau was established in 1971 and has brought in artists such as R.E.M., Phish (whose members attended UVM in the 1980s), Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sting, Lou Reed, Primus, String Cheese Incident, James Brown, Bob Dylan, the Allman Brothers Band, Death Cab for Cutie, Jurassic 5, the Disco Biscuits, The Grateful Dead, Guster, and the The Flaming Lips.

Since 2001, SA Concerts has organized an annual festival known as SpringFest, held on the last Saturday of April. SpringFest headliners have included Vida Blue, The Roots, Cake, Keller Williams, Gov't Mule, and co-headliners Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Soulive, Toots and the Maytals and Ziggy Marley

Student Activism

Currently two campus clubs, the Students for Peace and Global Justice[14] (SFPGJ) and the Student Labor Action Project[15] (SLAP), are pursuing social justice issues including livable wages for campus workers.

The Vermont Student Environmental Program[16] (VSTEP) is another organization that is working to promote reducing, reusing, and recycling of the waste produced at UVM.

In 2007, the college was ranked third in the nation for student use of marijuana.[17]

Naked Bike Ride

There is a Naked Bike Ride after the last day of classes each semester. This is not against the law in Vermont, as long as you do not undress in public.[18][19][20]

Publications

Greek life

Official University Web Site on Greek Life

Fraternities:

Sororities:

Notable alumni and graduates

Notable graduates

Notable attendees

  • Ben Affleck attended UVM for two semesters before transferring to Occidental College.
  • Howard Dean, (though not an alumnus of UVM's undergraduate college, attended a residency program through the UVM College of Medicine) later Governor of Vermont, and currently Chair of the Democratic National Committee.
  • Shayne Culpepper is a track and field olympian. She ran on the track and cross-country teams one year before transferring to Boulder, CO.
  • William A. Wheeler, 19th Vice President of the USA, under Rutherford B. Hayes, from 1877-1881. Also served in the US House of Representatives, from New York.
  • Torrey Mitchell ice hockey centre for the San Jose Sharks attended UVM for three years before deciding to play professional hockey.

Media

In April 2005, a special screening of the Family Guy episode North by North Quahog, the first new episode in three years, was held here.

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/directory/brief/drglance_3696_brief.php retrieved July 21, 2007
  2. ^ http://www.uvm.edu/admissions/undergraduate/financing/?Page=costs.html retrieved July 21, 2007
  3. ^ UVM wins $6.7M lake-research grant. Burlington Free Press. September 28, 2007.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link)
  4. ^ Johnson, Tim (July 24, 2007). UVM praised for restoration. Burlington Free Press.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link)
  5. ^ Barsch, Sky (May 21, 2007). 2,494 graduate at UVM. Burlington Free Press.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link)
  6. ^ http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070520/NEWS02/705200302/1007 retrieved May 22, 2007
  7. ^ Johnson, Tim (September 29, 2007). City, UVM sign fees deal. Burlington Free Press.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link)
  8. ^ A popular T-shirt on campus notes that UVM Football has remained undefeated since this date.
  9. ^ http://www.ncaasports.com/skiing/history
  10. ^ http://ncaasports.com/skiing/history/nc-ind
  11. ^ http://www.uvm.edu/athletics/skiing/?Page=skihistoryandrecords.html
  12. ^ UVM Sailing Team Website
  13. ^ Sailing Collegiate National Top 20
  14. ^ Students for Peace & Global Justice
  15. ^ Student Labor Action Project
  16. ^ Vermont Student Environmental Program
  17. ^ Johnson, Tim (September 3, 2007). Princeton Review: UVM is No. 3 in use of marijuana. Burlington Free Press.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link)
  18. ^ http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=naked+bike+ride retrieved June 19, 2007
  19. ^ http://www.worldnakedbikerideburlington.com/
  20. ^ http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2006/08/23/law_of_nature_prevails_in_vermont/ Nudity is legal in most parts of Vermont
  21. ^ View
  22. ^ UVM's University Communications Department
  23. ^ Vermont Quarterly magazine, a quarterly publication of the UVM Office of Alumni
  24. ^ Pi Kappa Alpha Official website
  25. ^ Phi Delta Theta Official website
  26. ^ http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051214/NEWS/512140355/1007
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