Champlain College history

A. Gordon Tittemore acquired the college in 1920, and renamed it Burlington Business College.

In 1956, businessmen C. Bader Brouilette and Albert Jensen purchased the college as a partnership.

Champlain College opened its first dormitories, Jensen and Sanders Halls, in 1965.

Women were only allowed to wear pant suits after they complained vociferously about having to wear skirts and dresses during the harsh winter of 1970–71.

Champlain offered its first bachelor's degree programs in Business and Accounting in 1990; three years later it began its first online education programs.

The Robert E. & Holly D. Miller Information Center (1998), contains a state-of-the-art library facility.

Champlain began offering master's degree and graduate certificate programs in 2002, and it currently awards master's degrees in Business Administration, Digital Forensic Science, Mediation & Applied Conflict Studies, Emergent Media and Early Childhood Education, among others.

In 2006, Champlain added scholarship programs for new Americans and first-generation college students from Vermont.

Later that year, Champlain established the Core Division, followed by the Life Experience & Action Dimension (LEAD) program in 2009.

In 2010, Champlain began offering an MFA in Emergent Media and a BS in Environmental Policy, and introduced the Center for Financial Literacy and the Champlain College Publishing Initiative.

As additional space was needed for administrative offices and Centers of Excellence, Champlain built the Miller Center at Lakeside in Burlington's Lakeside neighborhood in 2011.

In October 2013, writer John Tierney of The Atlantic magazine described Champlain as the "Ideal College" in an article for the American Futures project.

In 2014, Champlain joined forces with the United States Office of Personnel Management to provide federal employees, spouses and eligible adult dependents access to affordable online education in mission-critical and highly competitive fields.

In the fall of 2015, Champlain opened its Center for Communication & Creative Media, which serves as a transportation hub, houses the school store, mail services, conference center and dining facilities.

Informed by the College's Appreciative Inquiry Center, the Initiative built on the College's central strengths and 2020 vision of "becoming the finest small, professionally and globally focused college in the United States."