Candice Lewis, newly appointed dean of academic affairs at the Community College of Vermont, outlined CCV's curriculum cycle and presented three curricular priorities: a Justice Studies certificate, a Paraeducator certificate, and a versioning of the liberal studies associate degree specialized in education.

Lewis said curriculum proposals were due to internal committees in September with final committee work in November and academic council action in December; approved curriculum will publish in March for fall 2026 registration. She described the Justice Studies certificate as a 10-course, 30-credit program that draws on existing CCV coursework and "is stackable within our CCV behavioral science associate degree," and noted eight shared courses with Vermont State University for articulation.

The Paraeducator certificate is also proposed as 10 courses/30 credits and was designed to align with Vermont Title I paraprofessional requirements to provide a pathway to "highly qualified paraprofessional" designation. Lewis and other attendees noted this certificate responds to requests from the Vermont Agency of Education (AOE) and superintendents seeking a credential to expand the paraeducator workforce and provide a clear stackable pathway toward teacher-licensure tracks.

Lewis said that CCV intends the liberal studies specialization in education to give students a clear, bounded pathway that improves clarity for students pursuing 2+2 routes into baccalaureate programs and teacher-licensure preparation. Trustees asked about marketing of pathways, demand and teach-out or stack validation. Lewis said CCV has developed more than 35 pathways with VTSU and will provide data on pipeline outcomes; the pathway-infrastructure team was created last year and is now implementing supports to ease CCV-to-VTSU matriculation.

Trustees also asked about facilities and equipment for vocational certificates (for example, sawmill operations); CCV staff said Randolph campus retains some sawmill equipment and the meat-processing certificate will utilize the new meat-processing facility on the Randolph campus. Lewis noted possible archival (program retirement) of cloud computing and website-development certificates pending review, but said core courses tied to industry credentials (for example AWS courses) would be retained if programs are archived.