{"id":57,"date":"2013-07-15T18:38:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T18:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccvhistory.wordpress.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2013-07-15T18:38:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T18:38:39","slug":"karen-mcgovern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/history.ccv.edu\/index.php\/2013\/07\/15\/karen-mcgovern\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen McGovern"},"content":{"rendered":"

Class of 1989<\/strong>
\nOutreach Counselor, VSAC<\/strong><\/p>\n

My relationship with the Community College of Vermont (CCV) has been a valuable and meaningful one. \u00a0As a student, I credit CCV and its many wonderful instructors, staff and students with teaching me how to learn.\u00a0 As an instructor myself, I credit CCV and its amazing instructors, staff, and students with teaching me how to teach!!<\/p>\n

I began my experience with CCV in 1986 when I enrolled as a part-time student trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life.\u00a0 I had attempted college before but I didn\u2019t like the large classroom sizes and the lack of personal attention I had encountered in other schools.\u00a0 CCV was a welcoming, safe and encouraging environment that engaged a wandering young adult looking to find her way.\u00a0 The class that made the most impact on me early on was then called Dimensions of Learning, taught by the ever-so-incredible Joan Kaye.\u00a0 It really was a time of awakening for me. Also, thanks to Joan and CCV I was able to start my career with an internship in Senator Patrick Leahy\u2019s Burlington office.\u00a0 After proudly receiving my AS degree in 1989 from CCV, I was ready for more.<\/p>\n

Equipped with genuine encouragement, some newfound confidence, and a foundation in liberal studies and human services I embarked on a long journey.\u00a0 It took another 8+ years to get my BA degree from Trinity College of Vermont while working full-time for VSAC and raising a family.\u00a0 I don\u2019t fit into the charts or categories that attempt to measure postsecondary completion rates within 4 years or even 6 years.\u00a0 I was, however, fortunate to find colleges that offered adult-friendly programs of study where I found the flexibility to learn in a way that worked best for me<\/i>.<\/p>\n

With the support of my family and my employer, I returned to learning again to pursue an MA degree in the hopes that I might counsel adults at VSAC and possibly teach one day.\u00a0 You can imagine my delight when I was offered a teaching position at the CCV academic center in St. Albans.\u00a0 I have had the great pleasure and honor of teaching Dimensions of Work since 2010.\u00a0 How great it has been to find myself back in Dimensions class, after all these years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Class of 1989 Outreach Counselor, VSAC My relationship with the Community College of Vermont (CCV) has been a valuable and meaningful one. \u00a0As a student, I credit CCV and its many wonderful instructors, staff and students with teaching me how to learn.\u00a0 As an instructor myself, I credit CCV and its amazing instructors, staff, and … Continue reading “Karen McGovern”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12,14,18,19],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-stories","tag-community-college-of-vermont","tag-higher-education","tag-student","tag-vermont-state-colleges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.ccv.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.ccv.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.ccv.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.ccv.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.ccv.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/history.ccv.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.ccv.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.ccv.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.ccv.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}