{"id":226,"date":"2013-08-07T20:33:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T20:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccvhistory.wordpress.com\/?p=226"},"modified":"2013-08-07T20:33:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T20:33:41","slug":"jack-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/history.ccv.edu\/index.php\/2013\/08\/07\/jack-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former CCV Assistant Academic Dean for Student Services 1989 – 1994<\/strong>
\nPresently, CCV Faculty member at the Morrisville Academic Center, 2006 – 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

I started working full time at CCV in August, 1989 as the Director of the Student Support Services Program (TRIO) and was hired because I had written a number of TRIO grants before and the CCV grant was due soon.<\/p>\n

What a wonderfully welcoming place to work, I had my best ever supervisor, Barbara Murphy,\u00a0 Academic Dean and 12 outstanding Coordinators of Student Support who would be working with me from all 12 sites.<\/p>\n

The grant writing process began immediately, that\u2019s fine, now who is my secretary who will be typing the grant for me?\u00a0 We don\u2019t have secretaries and most everyone types their own work, and here is a shared laptop that you an work on.\u00a0 It was loaded with DOS.\u00a0 What is DOS I asked?\u00a0 Are you familiar with computers and have you used them before?\u00a0 No I have not.\u00a0 That\u2019s OK because we have a computer class in Montpelier that starts tomorrow.\u00a0 So how did the computer class go?\u00a0 Hmmmm, I don\u2019t get it.\u00a0 That\u2019s OK, because there is another class tomorrow.\u00a0 This time I got it, and I was able to use the laptop and a wonderful woman, Marion, who worked at the other end of the hall, volunteered to type and edit my work electronically.\u00a0 Whew, what great support for a new employee!<\/p>\n

1989 was mot my first employ with CCV, I taught a class in 1972, Creative Approaches to Education.\u00a0 At that time the tuition was optional and there was no pay for faculty. \u00a0AT that time I was an administrator at Johnson State and the class took place in my office.\u00a0 What I did receive from that experience was a class of six who were very much interested in education, and especially one student, who became a full time teacher at BFA in Fairfax, Shirley Opstrup.\u00a0 She was later recognized as the Vermont Teacher of the Year, which was super for her, however the best part for me was, we, and our families have been the best of friends for over 40 years.<\/p>\n

Working at Wasson Hall, CCV\u2019s \u201ccorporate headquarters\u201d, in Waterbury was interesting because many of the college-wide meetings took place there, so I got to meet many people right down the hall from my office.\u00a0 Another very pleasant ritual that happen once a month at Wasson was a \u201cpotluck birthday party\u201d for everyone who\u2019s birthday was in that month.\u00a0 This certainly did a lot to develop strong esprit d\u2019corp among the staff.<\/p>\n

In my days at CCV it was common for various groups and committees to meet once a month, and these meetings would usually last from 9:00 AM to about 3:00PM.\u00a0 These long meetings were intended to lessen travel for all and to allow time for planning and organizing what that committee was charged with.\u00a0 Well organized meetings were productive and any that were not, got the word.\u00a0 \u201cIf I am going to drive up to Waterbury\u00a0 from Bennington and not get anything done, you can count me out.\u201d\u00a0 Needless to say any of us who planned and conducted these meetings, always had this in mind as we plan what the meeting was to accomplish and who was responsible for what.<\/p>\n

Early on I realized that\u00a0 CCV people were very committed to the college\u2019s mission and to one another in a supportive team mentality.\u00a0 I observed that the most successful people at CCV were highly work centered, and the focus was on supporting our students and making the college a successful place, and that reputation was \u201cout there\u201d in all of the 12 communities the college served.\u00a0 Then, and now the commitment to student learning and support are the key ingredients that keep new students enrolling with successful conclusions, whether they graduate or transfer.\u00a0 CCV\u2019s ever increasing enrollment and graduating classes is a tribute to the quality of education CCV gives it\u2019s students and is indeed the \u201cword on the street\u201d that… \u201ckeeps \u2018em comin\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n

When I retired from Vermont Tech in 2006, I started teaching classes at Academic Center in Morrisville, and over this short time I could cite many success stories that would be interesting and could easily document students change and growth.\u00a0 But the one story that I like the best is about Nate, an Iraq veteran who came to my Dimensions class with some PTSD and certainly a no-nonsense outspoken and fairly entrenched approach to everything.\u00a0 Nate laid it all out and in language that was more fitting for an angry pirate.\u00a0 It even encouraged some of the other male students to think they could get away with it too, despite my constant reminder that such language was not appropriate anywhere and especially in college classrooms.\u00a0 Nate got better, but still needed reminding about his choice of adjectives.<\/p>\n

Nate showed up in my class the next semester and I was glad of it.\u00a0 We spoke at the beginning of the class about using appropriate language in class, and he said he\u2019d give it his best try. He made it through the entire class without one swear word.\u00a0 On the last day, we had a potluck lunch and enjoyed the last opportunity to socialize as a class, and Nate hung back to help clean up.\u00a0 He said after we cleaned up, \u201cDid you notice that I didn\u2019t fucking swear once during your class?\u201d\u00a0 I responded, \u201cYes, I did and that is just one example of your growth here.\u201d\u00a0 The last I heard about Nate was he enrolled in the nursing program at Norwich University.\u00a0 It is my observation about students, if you can visibly see some growth in them, you know they are open minded enough to learning new and even complicated things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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