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Middlebury College was chartered in 1800 and was Vermont's first college to grant an academic degree in 1802. Castleton University, which today is a campus of Vermont State University, was considered to be the oldest institution of higher learning in Vermont, having been originally chartered as a grammar school in 1787.
The University of Vermont (UVM), [a] officially titled as University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, is a public land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont, United States. [6] Founded in 1791, the university is the oldest in Vermont and the fifth-oldest in New England , making it among the oldest in the United States.
The primary teaching hospital for the Larner College of Medicine is the UVM Medical Center in Burlington. The Larner College of Medicine offers both MD and PhD degrees, as well as a Certificate in Integrative Healthcare through the shared program with the University of Vermont College of Nursing and Health Sciences.
Stephen Leffler, president and chief operating officer of the UVM Medical Center, says Vermont is short at least 500 beds for long-term care. "That's more than two full floors of patients," he said.
In 2012, the medical center's nearly 7,150 employees included 500 University of Vermont Medical Group physicians (jointly employed by the medical center and the UVM College of Medicine), more than 1750 registered nurses, 160 non-physician practice nurses and physician assistants, and approximately 300 residents (physicians in specialty training).
Mary Cushman, Class of 1985, Professor of Medicine and Pathology in the Robert Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont. [5] John Dewey, Class of 1879, pragmatist philosopher and educator. [6] Berta Geller, Ed.D 1992, and research professor emeritus, University of Vermont College of Medicine. [7] Cynthia Barnhart, Class of 1981 ...
In 2017, Chamberlain College of Nursing students in Texas protested a new requirement that they pass a comprehensive test to graduate. This followed the Texas Board of Nursing's decision to forbid Chamberlain from enrolling new students after a significant number of recent graduates were failing the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX).
The Vermont Catamounts are the varsity intercollegiate athletic programs of the University of Vermont, based in Burlington, Vermont, United States. The school sponsors 18 athletic programs (8 men's, 10 women's), [ 2 ] most of which compete in the NCAA Division I America East Conference (AEC), of which the school has been a member since 1979. [ 3 ]