Trouble From the Grave

May 17, 2017 -- It would be the only college in Vermont with a beach, Jane Sanders said.  Sanders and Burlington College never managed to make those sunny predictions come true. She did not last as president through the end of 2011, and Burlington College did not survive as an operating higher education institution through the end of 2016. Many of the college’s former leaders blame its closure on what appears in retrospect to be an overly risky and ill-fated campus acquisition. Even today, the purchase remains a cloud hanging over Sanders, who is married to U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders. The deal has come under new and intense scrutiny after word surfaced that it is the center of a federal investigation.