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Did your college classroom look like this?

College Outdoors f your time at college was dominated by long lectures that required major doses of caffeine to keep you attentive, you weren’t in the Vermilion Community College (VCC) Outdoor Leadership program, or any of the other hands-on, get-outside, do-something-real courses of study offered at this unusual place of higher education.

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Photos courtesy of VCC

Consider the Wilderness and Park Management program. Students who complete this 2-year degree program are Class B sawyers (that means they are very competent at using a chain saw) and WFRs (pronounced woofers, stands for Wilderness First Responders, which means if you break your leg or have a heart attack on a remote

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