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hen he joined the Peace Corps in 1966, Roger Perry was in for a shock. Recently graduated from Dartmouth College and still wet, as they say, behind the ears, he and his wife, Heather, were sent to a tiny outpost in the Marshall Islands. Raised in suburban Boston, Perry was hardly accustomed to living without electricity or running water, much less to raising chickens and pigs and thatching his own roof When the couple became "instant teachers" to nearly 600 indigenous Pacific islanders, "we sort of made it up as we went along," he says. Perry had no idea what surviving such primitive conditions might prepare him for, careerwise, but in retrospect his adaptability to change was the best preparation of all. He couldn't have imagined then — no one could — that 30 years later he'd be facing down the vast maw of something called the Internet, and sending the students of a small college confidently into the high-tech future. And he definitely didn't think he'd be admitting that the typing class his mother made him take in the ninth grade has "served him in good stead." That was long before e-mail, laptops and longdistance learning. As the dignified 56-year-old president of Champlain College, Perry certainly wouldn't boast so indelicately, but his school — once run down as "Beaver High," after the school mascot — is kicking butt. At a time when many small colleges are failing, or at least worrying about their shaky orbit in the rapidly changing universe of higher education, Champlain succeeds by doing what it has always done: preparing students for jobs. It's just that rr\any of those jobs are a lot different now, and so are the classrooms. In adapting his school to the current global market, Perry summarizes his approach with characteristic pragmatism: "We've been taking a look at the college in terms of how the world's changing," he says. "We put theory into practice and try to link the two — that's an important emphasis at Champlain College." Inside the handsome brick and clapboard enclave along South Willard and Maple streets are some 700 to 800 computers, Perry estimates. Many are in the newest and most impressive building on campus, the Miller Information Commons, a.k.a. the high-tech library, where some 2000 publications may be read on-line, and where discreet outlets for lap-tops can be found about every 10 feet. O n campus, students are as likely to be taking courses like Internet & Web Architecture, E-Commerce, or Current Topics in Computing as the more traditional Accounting, Business or Economics.