{"id":45,"date":"2016-04-13T15:10:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T19:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2018-04-13T09:45:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T13:45:58","slug":"history-of-janus-forum-at-uvm","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/about-us-2\/history-of-janus-forum-at-uvm\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Janus Forum at UVM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008, three University of Vermont\u00a0faculty members\u00a0founded\u00a0the UVM Janus Forum.\u00a0 The group was led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/business\/profiles\/james_f_gatti\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Gatti, <\/a>a faculty member in the School of Business Administration, who worked with alumni to raise funds to support the Janus Forum.\u00a0 Professor Gatti, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/business\/profiles\/richard_g_vanden_bergh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rick Vanden Bergh<\/a> (Grossman School of Business) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/cas\/economics\/profiles\/arthur-woolf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Art Woolf<\/a> (Department of Economics) identified topics and recruited the experts to bring to campus for each debate. \u00a0From 2008-2012, the Janus Forum held <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/debates\/\">eight debates<\/a>. \u00a0With the retirement of Professor Gatti in 2012, the Janus Forum went into temporary hibernation.<\/p>\n<p>In September of 2013, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/business\/profiles\/richard_g_vanden_bergh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rick Vanden Bergh<\/a>\u00a0(current director) brought together a diverse <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/faculty-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">group of faculty<\/a>\u00a0from across campus to develop a sustainable plan for the Janus Forum and to participate in ongoing Janus Forum activities. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/cas\/economics\/profiles\/arthur-woolf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Art Woolf<\/a>\u00a0is also a member of the newly constituted faculty group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008, three University of Vermont\u00a0faculty members\u00a0founded\u00a0the UVM Janus Forum.\u00a0 The group was led by James Gatti, a faculty member in the School of Business Administration, who worked with alumni to raise funds to support the Janus Forum.\u00a0 Professor Gatti, along with Rick Vanden Bergh (Grossman School of Business) and Art Woolf (Department of Economics) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/about-us-2\/history-of-janus-forum-at-uvm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;History of Janus Forum at UVM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":553,"featured_media":0,"parent":112,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/360"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}