THE BIG EVENT!

 On Monday June 11th, Global Campuses Bradford, Randolph, and Moretown celebrated their 5th year anniversary at The Big Event, presented by Global Campuses Foundation. The assembled audience of Campus Ambassadors, friends, family, and dignitaries rose as the campus participants proceeded in to the hall at Our Lady of the Angels Church in Randolph, accompanied by live music performed by Tony Mason. Susan Wehry, M.D, the commissioner for DAIL, opened the morning ceremony with a heartfelt speech congratulating the campus participants on their success, excellent reputation, and hard work. Jim and Sheryl Tewksbury, and Andreas John also shared their praise, congratulations and reflections on the impact the campus participants have created in their communities over the past five years. Bill Ashe, Executive Director of Upper Valley Services, Dennis Gray, Director of UVS Moretown, Joan Carman, Director of UVS Randolph, and Lorraine Gaboriault, Director of UVS Bradford, were all presented with certificates recognizing their unique contributions to the successful five year partnership of GCF and UVS. Jason Richardson, CFO of ARIS Solutions, was presented with the Global Vision Award for his continued commitment and dynamic engagement with GCF. 

 Later in the ceremony each campus was recognized as a group and then each participant came to the front to receive a transcript, detailing the classes they attended at their campus over the past five years. Faculty participants also received a faculty portfolio, with a description of the classes they taught over that same time period. 

The morning ceremony came to a close with loud applause, cake, and many personal congratulations for each campus participant. After the ceremony, the Campus Ambassadors representing the eight VT and NH Global Campuses, enjoyed a lunch together and spent time sharing their work and planning for future Campus-to-Campus Connections events.

Congratulations to all the Campus Participants and Resource Persons who are a part of the Global Campus Communities in Bradford, Randolph, and Moretown. You are all amazing!

Global Campus Randolph Celebrates Its 5th Academic Year with Certificate Day and Participation in the Big Event

Participants at Global Campus Randolph had much to celebrate this spring!  They recently completed their 5^th academic year as a Global Campus!  On June 7^th, they celebrated this milestone and the end of Spring Term 2012 with a potluck lunch at Pleasant Street house and a certificate award ceremony.  The educational offerings this term had something for everyone!  Classes included Book Club, exercise (Jazzercise and One Mile Walk), Theme Song Trilogy, many sports classes (basketball, baseball, bocce, and bowling), Global Campus Jam Session with guitarists Lisa and Rick, Creative Drawing and a Special Olympics Interactive class with Global Campus Shiremont.

On June 11, participants joined with their friends, family, ambassadors from the Vermont and New Hampshire campuses and celebrated their 5^th year anniversary together with participants from Global Campus Bradford and Global Campus Moretown.  They received a transcript of all the classes they have taken and a portfolio of the classes they have taught.  A great ending to a successful term!

GCF Web Platform Change

Global Campuses Foundation is undergoing a web platform change over the next few weeks so please bear with us if anything is amiss on the GCF website or Blog during that time. Everything should be back to normal by the end of July. Thanks for your patience!

Global Campus Springfield Celebrates Another Successful Academic Term!

On May 26, 2012, Global Campus Springfield participants celebrated another successful academic term.  Participants gathered at Stoughton Pond Recreation Area in Weathersfield, Vermont for a pot luck lunch, music, frisbee and the awarding of certificates.

This term's classes featured a variety of educational offerings including classes about the fire fighting heroes of September 11th, Asian cooking using a wok, Irish dance, an Elton John review and many more!  Congratulations to all participants!