The state created the Vermont Regional Community College Commission (VRCCC) in 1970.

In 1992, CCV deployed the "virtual campus linking its 13 locations via a computer network.

In 1984, CCV's commencement topped 100 graduates and its twelfth site opened in Middlebury.

[4] In 2014, CCV moved its Brattleboro campus to the renovated Brooks House, in the downtown business district of the town.

[6] A renewed unionization campaign was undertaken by the American Federation of Teachers in 2015.