Champlain College Dublin Campus Welcomes Champlain Valley Union High Students

CVU High School students Visit Dublin Campus

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Students from two Burlington-area educational institutions met up this week. Not in Burlington, but in Dublin, Ireland. Sixteen students and two teachers from Champlain Valley Union (CVU) High School in Hinesburg, were hosted by Champlain College students studying abroad at the College's Dublin campus.
The CVU students are taking a course on International Business that includes 11 days in Ireland, where they have been exposed to the rich history and culture of Ireland, as well as the stunning landscapes of the Emerald Isle. A goal of the course was to expose the students to a Vermont-based organization that has expanded abroad. Course instructor Tamie-Jo Dickinson said that "Champlain College fit that criteria nicely, and their willingness to collaborate with CVU helped ensure the students had impactful cultural and business exposure on the trip."
The Champlain College students are nearing the end of their four-month study abroad semester in the Irish capital, and were excited to host the CVU students. Champlain College arranged for several educational walking tours, a chance to sit in on a Champlain College Dublin class, lectures on International Business from speakers from IDA Ireland and the US Embassy, as well as a visit to the European Headquarters of Workday, a US company who provide software solutions for human resource and financial management.
CVU Students visit Workday offices in Dublin. Dr. Stephen Robinson, director of Champlain College Dublin, said that "it was a great pleasure to show off the wonderful city of Dublin to the CVU students and teachers. It's also great to see the Champlain students acting as tour guides for the CVU students. The Champlain students have been in Dublin for almost four months and you can tell that it has become a second home for them and their enthusiasm is really infectious."
Shannon Ryan, one of Champlain's students in Dublin, is a 2012 graduate of CVU and first visited Ireland in 2011 with a CVU school trip. "The opportunity to travel internationally and to experience school / business in another country while in high school is incredibly beneficial when choosing what college and post-grad paths to take. For me the CVU trip in 2011 really opened my eyes to the idea of studying abroad, and studying in Ireland in particular. Champlain then afforded me the opportunity to come back to Ireland and study at their Dublin campus. My experience at the Champlain Dublin campus has been absolutely fantastic," said Ryan.
Christopher Mallow, a CVU senior, thought that "experiencing international business lectures from IDA Ireland and the US Embassy was fantastic. Hearing from people that are actively involved in US-Ireland economic links really hit home to me. I had no idea Dublin was such a world center for international businesses. The visit to Workday's European was really interesting as well."
Learn more about Champlain College's international education programs at https://www.champlain.edu/student-life/study-abroad.


Founded in 1878, Champlain College is a small, not-for-profit, private college in Burlington, Vermont, with additional campuses in Montreal, Canada, and Dublin, Ireland. Champlain offers a traditional undergraduate experience from its beautiful campus overlooking Lake Champlain and over 90 residential undergraduate and online undergraduate and graduate degree programs and certificates. Champlain's distinctive career-driven approach to higher education embodies the notion that true learning occurs when information and experience come together to create knowledge. Champlain College is included in the Princeton Review's The Best 384 Colleges: 2019 Edition. For the fourth year in a row, Champlain was named a "Most Innovative School" in the North by U.S. News & World Report's 2019 "America's Best Colleges,” and a “Best Value School” and is ranked in the top 100 “Regional Universities of the North” and in the top 25 for “Best Undergraduate Teaching.” Champlain is also featured in the Fiske Guide to Colleges for 2019 as one of the "best and most interesting schools" in the United States, Canada and Great Britain and is a 2019 College of Distinction. For more information, visit champlain.edu.