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Champlain College

Burlington, VT

Director of Student Accounts

Institutional Background

Founded in 1878, Champlain College is a small, not-for-profit, private college overlooking Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vermont, with additional campuses in Montreal, Canada, and Dublin, Ireland. The college's career-driven approach to higher education prepares students for their professional lives from their first semester.

For the third year in a row, Champlain College was named a "Most Innovative School" in the North by U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges" 2018 regional rankings and listed among The Princeton Review's "Best 382 Colleges" in 2018. Champlain is also featured in the 2018 Fiske Guide to Colleges as one of the "best and most interesting schools" in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. It is also recognized as a 2018 College of Distinction for "excellence in undergraduate education," according to Colleges of Distinction.

Champlain College opened its first dormitories, Jensen and Sanders halls, in 1965. It started new programs in social services in the 1970s; opened the Willett Foster Hall, home to the Engineering Technology Division, in 1982; and added the Hauke Family Campus Center in 1989. Champlain offered its first bachelor's degree programs in business and accounting in 1990; three years later it began its first online education programs. In 2002, Champlain launched its first master's degree program in managing innovation and information technology. The College's library, the Robert E. and Holly D. Miller Information Commons, opened in 1998, and in 2004 the school dedicated the S.D. Ireland Family Center for Global Business & Technology, now home to the Stiller School of Business. The following year, the IDX Student Life Center opened. Also in 2005, David F. Finney was inaugurated as Champlain's seventh president, and the College added a master of business administration as its second master's degree.

In 2006, President Finney launched several new initiatives, including the Emergent Media Center; the Champlain College Center for Digital Investigation, now called the Senator Patrick Leahy Center for Digital Investigations; and the Conference and Event Center.

In 2007, the College opened a study-abroad campus in Montreal, Canada, followed by a second studyabroad campus in Dublin, Ireland, in 2008. Later that year, Champlain established the Core Division, followed by the Life Experience & Action Dimension (LEAD) program in 2009.

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Burlington, Vermont

Burlington is one of the best-known "college towns" in the United States. In addition to Champlain College, Burlington boasts four other higher education institutions, and students represent a quarter of the city's population. Clearly, Burlington is a smart, hip, and happening city. To explore downtown, just head down the hill toward the water--it's only a five-minute walk from campus. The epicenter of Burlington is the Church Street Marketplace. You'll know you're there when you hit the cobblestones. Wander around; explore unique shops and tea and coffee houses. Enjoy the street performers. Have a great meal in any one of the restaurants featuring local ingredients and outdoor dining. Next, head down the hill toward the lake. You'll find the waterfront and community park graced with pristine lakeshore as far as the eye can see and a magnificent boardwalk, built for strolling, biking, blading, running, even snowshoeing and cross-country skiing. Watch a beautiful sunset over the Adirondack Mountains. The waterfront is home to the city's largest festival site, where a number of major events take place throughout the year. There's a whole world of entertainment in and around the city, which truly offers the best of everything from a stellar downtown urban atmosphere to proximity to some of the best outdoor sports terrain in the country. Burlington boasts a number of honors:

Named "America's Capital of Education" by Urbanful Named number 1 "Best College Town" by Travel & Leisure Ranked number 7 on Outside magazine's "16 Greatest Places to Live in America" Named the next "Gig City" by US Ignite Named "One of the 10 Great Places for Campus Culture" by USA Today Travel Guide For more information about Burlington, visit the Chamber of Commerce at .

Champlain College Manifesto A radically pragmatic education. It is relevant today, and it's years ahead of its time. It fuels initiative. It has purpose. It prepares students in a unique way so they're ready for work, ready for life, ready for anything. Without it you're running in place. With it you're sprinting into the future. At Champlain College, students come to us with passion and determination. We teach them what they want to know and help them understand what they need to know. We provide unparalleled support and revel in the partnerships we create. We offer tools to think and to act, and the opportunity to immediately put them to use. For those who are instinctively ambitious, we provide the agility to create a springboard for their ideas. Because learning how to think without knowing what to do is an education half done.

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At Champlain, both teachers and students stretch. Dreams start coming to life far before the degree is earned. We believe our radically pragmatic education is what makes it all possible. It's what helps put initiative into practice. We could say we prepare students for the real world, but at Champlain they're already there. Let us dare to teach them, learn from them, and be them. Audeamus. Let Us Dare.

Mission Champlain College endeavors to be a leader in educating today's students to become skilled practitioners, effective professionals, and engaged global citizens. Champlain's agile and entrepreneurial approach to higher education uniquely blends technology leadership, market savvy, innovation, and fiscal responsibility with a commitment to liberal learning, community involvement and "the human touch." This distinctive approach permeates the delivery of relevant, rigorous student-centered programs in business, arts, applied technology, and public service. Strategic Goals

1. Achieve Distinctive Academic Excellence: Champlain College will offer challenging, innovative academic programs that align with the needs of the workplace and serve the unique needs of its three distinct student populations. These include: (1) an unparalleled traditional undergraduate experience that combines professional programs with a unique interdisciplinary core augmented

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by learning in life skills; (2) an adult undergraduate curriculum of relevant, life-long education leading to professional advancement; and (3) graduate education that expands technical competence, inspires critical thinking, embraces reflective learning, and infuses the joy of lifelong learning. All Champlain graduates will have the capacity to attain leadership roles in their various fields due to their professional skills as well as their abilities to think critically and creatively and to communicate effectively. 2. Enrich Student Life: We will enrich student life for all Champlain students by providing experiences that embrace student development, personal responsibility, the application of life skills and career path development, and participation in the larger community. 3. Enhance Financial Stability: Champlain College will operate from a position of financial strength. It is only through the careful management of resources that the College will have the resources needed for continual improvement. 4. Excite, Engage, and Empower Faculty & Staff: Engaged and empowered faculty and staff work and teach with passion, drive, and innovation and move the College forward in order to achieve our vision. Over the next ten years, we will continually work to ensure that Champlain faculty and staff recognize and honor the Champlain College culture while building a high-performance environment in which staff and faculty excel. We will become a leader in our ability to recruit, retain, develop, and celebrate staff and faculty crucial to our success. 5. Fostering an Inclusive & Diverse Community: Recognizing that diversity is both a reflection of our world and a source of rich education, Champlain will be diverse in ways that reflect the world in which we live and work. All members of the Champlain community will have a sense of being a valued member of the College community.

Master Plan Master planning is about making a roadmap for the future of a place. It's about deciding where you want to go and charting a path to get there. The Champlain College master plan was completed in March 2007. The planning process was an opportunity for students, faculty, administrators, and trustees to work together to identify a common vision for Champlain's future. It also provided opportunities for Champlain to build stronger relationships with neighbors, institutions, and city officials.

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Vision and Goals of the Plan

The vision of the master plan is to support Champlain's future growth as a flexible, desirable, and attractive institution without negatively impacting either the residential and historic character or the high quality of life on The Hill.

Goals and Objectives

Fulfill the City of Burlington's request that the college create a campus master plan Work with neighbors to find locally acceptable locations and approaches to growth Provide a workable plan to house as many of Champlain's 2,000 traditional students as possible Ensure that existing and planned college facilities are sufficient to accommodate Champlain's

academic, student life, support, and physical plant needs for the foreseeable future Help strengthen a great neighborhood Match facilities to vision (traditional full-time enrollment of 2,000 students) Enhance undergraduate experience--academic and residential programs Create a place that expresses the mission Put near-term decisions in a mid- and long-term framework Develop implementation strategies to achieve mission Condition of permit Answer the question, What is next? Embrace sustainability Build an aesthetically pleasing campus Improve pedestrian and traffic sensitivity Create a neighbor-supported plan for the future Support Champlain's community of learning

Leadership

President Donald J. Laackman

Donald Laackman, the eighth president of Champlain College, is committed to making Champlain the finest small, professionally and globally focused college in the United States.

In his first year as Champlain's president, Laackman launched the Champlain College Futures Initiative, an effort that brought intentionality and mindfulness to identifying emerging trends and opportunities, understanding the College's strengths, and building on these strengths to position the College for success. He also oversaw the expansion of Champlain College's path-breaking truED education partnership to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). OPM joined leading firms such as AT&T, MetLife, and Cisco in providing their employees with a high-quality, cost-effective education. Under his leadership, the College also announced the opening of the David L. Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry, which is in the Stiller School of Business.

Laackman came to Champlain College from Harold Washington College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago, where he served as president from 2011 through 2014. He played a key role in the college's "Reinvention" initiative, creating strategies and programs for diverse student populations while eliminating barriers to employment and addressing inequality in higher education. In 2012, he launched the business, professional services, and entrepreneurship "College to Careers" offering, a mayoral

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