Program Overview
We welcome full-time and part-time students with various levels of experience and backgrounds. We enroll a relatively small cohort each year to promote strong and enduring relationships with fellow colleagues, award-winning faculty, and campus partners.
Committed to the future of the nation’s higher education system, we challenge students to make their graduate education an unparalleled learning experience.
Our Mission
We develop practitioner scholars through academic and professional preparation whose commitment to reflection and social justice will transform higher education and student affairs in the spirit of The Vermont Connection.
Core Values
Academic and Professional Preparation: Through partnerships between faculty and student affairs professionals, we promote excellence through academic and professional rigor. We cultivate the knowledge and skills necessary for success in the profession through the synergy between classroom and experiential learning as conceptualized by philosopher and UVM alumnus John Dewey.
Social Justice: We are committed to pursuing social justice as both a process and a goal to dismantle individual, institutional, and societal oppression. Grounded in the ethos of HESA, UVM, and the profession, we strive to transform student affairs for more equitable and inclusive opportunities in higher education.
Reflection: We foster reflection of self, others, and contexts as a critical component of growth in professional practice. Through critical consciousness we strive to improve higher education and student affairs with an aim toward promoting individual, institutional, and societal change.
The Vermont Connection is a collegial network of former and current students, faculty, and student affairs professionals with the shared vision of uplifting community through relationships. The spirit of The Vermont Connection weaves together the history, present, and future of UVM HESA.
Program Information
Funding Pathways
Learn more about our graduate assistantships, scholarships, and employment opportunities:
HESA Funding Pathways
How to Apply
Review the Admissions section/tab on this page with instructions on how to apply.
Information Sessions
Meet our faculty and learn more about the program:
Attend an online information session
Contact Us
Reach out to our Office of Graduate Student and Program Services if you have questions or need assistance.
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