What are the functions and styles of leadership? Is leadership hierarchical or horizontal? Authoritative or laissez-faire? Is it influential, collaborative, strategic, or hands on?
If you ask this question to Continuing and Distance Education Dean Cynthia Belliveau, Ed.D., she’ll tell you leadership encompasses all of the above.
Students in the Taste of Leadership workshop sample canned peas with Cynthia Belliveau.
Three Chimney Farm in Charlotte is about to turn the traditional CSA model on its head.
Owned by Tim and Danielle Wall, UVM ’10, and managed by Sara Jean Whelan, UVM ’17, Three Chimney Farm is introducing this month an innovative food delivery concept that allows consumers to purchase local food on an e-commerce site.
UVM alums Tim Wall ’10 and Sara Jean Whelan ’17 at Three Chimney Farm in Charlotte. / Photo by Erica Houskeeper
How do stakeholders find common ground when they share the same goals but hold vastly different opinions?
Simone Washington, the social mission strategy and policy manager at Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, will share a pragmatic and productive approach to building consensus in her workshop, “How to Become Allies Fighting the Same System, Role Play, Power Analytics, Conflict and Resolution Techniques.” Her session will be presented to students in the UVM Breakthrough Leaders for Sustainable Food Systems Program in June.
Photo credit: Ben & Jerry’s
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The UVM John Dewey Kitchen Institute is not about learning to cook, but cooking to learn.
Taught by UVM Continuing and Distance Education Dean Cynthia Belliveau and Dewey scholar Lisa Heldke, the program emphasizes the pedagogical power of the kitchen. Students from around the country come to UVM to learn how to use cooking to teach any topic within a framework of collaboration and cooperation.
Associate Professor Terrence Delaney first became enthralled by fungi 40 years ago when he was a student at Duke University. Not only are fungi master decomposers, but are also known to have fascinating sex lives, according to Delaney.
This summer at UVM, he’ll teach the Biology of Fungi, a four-week course from May 21-June 14 that will give students an opportunity to spend time outdoors collecting, identifying, and studying major fungal groups.
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