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Jun 21, 2019 · Senator Bernie Sanders with his wife, Jane O’Meara Sanders, former president of Burlington College. The school, in Vermont, collapsed a few years after she oversaw a land deal that was intended ...
- A $10 Million Dream
- The $2 Million Question Mark
- Deal Approved
- The Collapse
For Burlington College, it was a golden opportunity. Students complained about the lack of an outdoor college campus and gathering spaces at the old two-acre property. Burlington College commissioned architectural drawings for a new building — but then learned that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington would sell its 32-acre lakefront property j...
At the heart of the property deal was a list of donations, including $2.6 million in confirmed money and another $2.5 million in unconfirmed pledges. The list included $2 million that never materialized. "At this time, we have a firm commitment of $1 million from one donor and a verbal commitment for an additional $1 million from another donor," Sa...
The financing agency VEHBFA reviewed the Burlington College proposal in 2010 and held a public hearing in Winooski, a nearby city, about the financing plan. No members of the public offered any comment. Charly Dickerson, one of the board members for VEHBFA, opposed the deal out of concern about the college's ability to repay the debt, according to ...
The college struggled financially after Sanders parted ways with the institution in October 2011. In her goodbye memo to the board of trustees, Sanders wrote that the college had "realized" gift and grant commitments of nearly $1.7 million over the last year, and another $1.25 million was on the books for the future. Many of the donors, like Pomerl...
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May 16, 2016. The end of the school year doesn’t just mark graduation at Burlington College, the small Vermont institution led by Jane Sanders from 2004 to 2011. The school announced on Monday ...
Mary Jane O'Meara Sanders ( née O'Meara, formerly Driscoll; born January 3, 1950) is an American social worker, college administrator, activist, and political strategist. Sanders was provost and interim president of Goddard College (1996–1997) and president of Burlington College (2004–2011). [1] [2] In June 2017, she founded the think tank ...
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May 18, 2016 · The Sanders campaign has been silent on the issue thus far. VPR spoke with Jane Sanders in August 2015 about her tenure at the college. Jane Sanders said she was brought on in 2004 as a "turnaround" president as the college faced financial and accreditation problems. But she said those problems were solved under her seven-year tenure.
Jun 23, 2017 · FBI is probing whether Jane Sanders improperly acquired bank loans to expand Burlington College, which was forced to close because of heavy debt
May 16, 2016 · May 16, 2016 4:50 PM EDT. A small Vermont college once led by Jane Sanders, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, will close after struggling for years to pay for an expansion ...
