Amanda Chaulk, Director of Marketing
Email: achaulk@champlain.edu
Phone: (802) 651-5820
December 16, 2014
Dear Champlain Community:
As the semester and calendar year come to an end, I am reflecting on the many conversations and questions about recent events in Ferguson and Staten Island. As an institution of higher education committed to graduating globally engaged citizens, we have a responsibility to foster dialogue and create space in our community on issues of diversity, race and violence.
I appreciate recent conversations I have had with Dylan Cullen, President of the Student Government Association, and Ame Lambert, our Chief Diversity Officer, on how Champlain College should respond to these events. In addition, I have consulted with the Cabinet on how we honor our commitment to creating a safe and inclusive environment for all members of our community where people can discuss the complex issues raised by recent events. As a result of these discussions, I wanted to make you aware of the events we will sponsor over the course of the spring semester to provide multiple spaces for conversation, critical reflection, and dialogue.
The spring semester events will include:
We anticipate and support other conversations and events that may be added by groups across campus. I am proud to be part of an institution with many natural academic spaces for the conversation - criminal justice, legal studies, media studies, and social work among them. I am also proud that students, faculty, and staff across the institution are making spaces for the conversations.
Champlain College is committed to creating dialogue for understanding about inclusion and equality. We have also committed to helping our students be critical thinkers and ethical actors. We take these commitments seriously and will continue to work on making these goals a reality.
Best wishes for a rejuvenating break and I look forward to continuing the conversation in the Spring.
Don
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.