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Chancellor and campus presidents report enrollment gains, federal earmarks and Workday progress
Summary
CCV and VTSU reported spring enrollment gains and new federal earmarks to expand rural allied-health offerings; the chancellor said the system is 'out of emergency mode' and outlined FY27 priorities and a Workday ERP timeline with HR/finance modules targeted for June go-live and ongoing data-cleanup.
Trustees heard parallel updates from CCV President Joyce Judy, Vermont State University President Berg, and the chancellor on enrollment trends, federal earmarks, campus partnerships and the Workday ERP implementation.
Joyce Judy told trustees CCV’s spring enrollment is up about 6% year-over-year. She highlighted student Isabelle Freyer’s national academic recognitions and said CCV will use a congressional earmark championed by Senator Sanders to support allied-health certificate delivery in rural communities by underwriting smaller class sizes required to run those programs in lower-volume locations.
VTSU President Berg reported early indicators of spring enrollment growth driven by online offerings (undergraduate up 17% year-over-year; graduate enrollment up 48% in small N samples) and described facility and partnership activity across campuses, including conversion of Mlen Hall in Johnson to senior living in partnership with Down Street, a potential move of a flooded Johnson Health Center to campus, a lease in Lyndon to host a public education partner, a housing agreement with Saint Michael’s College in Williston, and consolidation of downtown Rutland operations back to Castleton campus.
The chancellor said the system has moved "out of emergency mode" and outlined three FY27 priority projects: workforce and economic engagement (program alignment and employer connections), infrastructure modernization (proactive campus facilities strategy), and student success/academic innovation (transfer and adult-learner pathways). The chancellor reported the Workday ERP project is in end-to-end testing, with HR and finance teams heavily engaged and an anticipated payroll go-live targeted for late June; staff emphasized extensive data-cleanup and change-management work remains.
Why it matters: Enrollment upticks and federal earmarks can influence program capacity and local workforce pipelines, while Workday implementation timing affects finance, HR and procurement functions across the system.
Next steps: Trustees were asked to RSVP for commencement and CCV events; IT and project teams will report back to the board with a fuller Workday update in June and on WISP and internal-audit resumption plans as part of audit follow-up.
