Champlain College

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This article is about Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont. See Champlain Regional College for the three joint colleges located in Canada.
Champlain College
Established 1878
Type Private coeducational
President Dr. David F. Finney
Students 1,780
Location Burlington, Vermont, United States
Campus Residential, 19 acres (77,000 m²)
Mascot Beaver
Website http://www.champlain.edu

Champlain College is a private college located in Burlington, Vermont. It also provides courses internationally via its satellite campus in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Mumbai, India.


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[edit] History

G. W. Thompson established Burlington Collegiate Institute—which would later become Champlain College—in downtown Burlington, Vermont in 1878.

Six years after its creation, George Evans acquired the Institute from Thompson and changed its name to Burlington Business College. In the fall of 1905, it graduated 23 students.

The first half of the 20th century saw the College located in several different downtown Burlington locations. In 1910, a fire broke out in the two-room college. Several students climbed in a back window and rescued the books—saving nearly all of them.

In 1958 President C. Bader Brouilette moved the College from its downtown location to Burlington’s Hill Section and renamed it Champlain College, after the beautiful, adjacent lake. 1965 saw Champlain residential students move into the College's first dormitories—Jensen and Sanders halls. Champlain's first computer, an IBM 1130, arrived in 1969. It had a removable disk drive with a 256K memory.

During the 1970s, the College expanded beyond a business college with the addition of majors in various community and human services and in education.

In 1989, the year that the 10,000th graduate crossed the stage at Commencement, the Hauke family pledged the first million-dollar gift in the College's history. Champlain built the new Hauke Family Campus Center and named it in their honor.

Champlain offered its first bachelor's degree programs in 1991 in Business and Accounting, in part due to a major donation from philanthropist and educator Walter Cerf.

Dr. Roger H. Perry became president in 1992, succeeding Dr. Robert Skiff.

Champlain College established Vermont’s first computer-based, online distance learning program in 1993, SuccessNet, the predecessor to Champlain College OnLine.

From the mid-1990s through 2001, Champlain began offering its degree programs through satellite programs in India, United Arab Emirates and Israel. The first summer Community Book Program began with a visit by Vermont author Julia Alvarez. Also, the Robert E. and Holly D. Miller Information Commons, the College's state-of-the-art library, opened.

In 2003, the College celebrated its 125th anniversary and opened to students the first of three new buildings—the Main Street Suites and Conference Center—funded by the 2002 Power of Three Capital Campaign. The College completed the Center for Global Business & Technology in the fall of 2004 and the Student Life Complex in the fall of 2005. Champlain's campus now comprises nearly 40 buildings, a blend of Victorian-era mansions and high-tech, modern facilities nestled in Burlington's historic Hill Section.

Also in 2003, Champlain began its first master's program in Managing Innovation & Information Technology. In the fall of 2005, it accepted its first class of Master of Business Administration (MBA) students. U.S. News America's Best Colleges 2007 ranked Champlain College as the 17th Best Comprehensive College in the North.[1]

On November 19, 2005, Dr. David F. Finney was inaugurated as the seventh president in Champlain’s history. Finney has since introduced several new initiatives including the BYOBiz program, in which young entrepreneurs can grow their businesses while they attend Champlain; a Workforce Development Center, enhancing the College’s capacity to be a catalyst for economic development; as well as a rare, new scholarship for students with refugee or asylum status.

[edit] Facts

  • Student/Faculty ratio: 17 to 1
  • Undergraduate Programs: 29
  • Graduate Degree Programs: 2

[edit] Undergraduate Majors

  • Accounting
  • Applied Psychology
  • Broadcasting
  • Business
  • Computer & Digital Forensics
  • Computer Information Systems
  • Computer Networking
  • Criminal Justice
  • e-Business Management
  • Education
  • Electronic Game & Interactive Development
  • Electronic Game Programming
  • Elementary Education
  • High School Teacher Education
  • Hospitality Industry Management
  • Information Security
  • International Business
  • Liberal Studies/Undeclared
  • Management
  • Marketing
  • Mass Communication
  • Media Communications
  • Middle School Teacher Education
  • Multimedia & Graphic Design
  • Paralegal Studies
  • Professional Writing
  • Public Relations
  • Radiography
  • Social Work
  • Software Development
  • Software Engineering
  • Web Site Development & Management

[edit] Graduate Programs

  • MBA
  • Managing Innovation and Information Technology

[edit] Online & Continuing Education

Champlain College's Online & Continuing Education division provides a professionally focused education to traditional and working adult students in the classroom and online. Programs offered include daytime undergraduate degrees, graduate degrees, professional certificates, accelerated degree programs and single courses.

[edit] Presidents

1. G.W. Thompson 1878-1883

2. E. George Evans 1884-1919

3. A. Gordon Tittlemore 1920-1955

4. C. Bader Brouilette 1956-1976

5. Dr. Robert A. Skiff 1977-1991

6. Dr. Robert H. Perry 1992-2004

7. Dr. David F. Finney 2005-

[edit] International profile

Champlain has signed an educational affiliation agreement with International University in Geneva

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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