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Rooks: 'Fire the chancellor' shouts at University of Maine System require a second look
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLast week, we considered the case of the embattled chancellor of the University of Maine System,...
Rooks: Is University of Maine System Chancellor Dannel Malloy living on borrowed time?
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAfter a tumultuous three months, University of Maine System Chancellor Dannel Malloy, hired in 2019,...
University of Maine at Farmington may slash most of its part-time faculty
Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFeb. 14—The University of Maine at Farmington is eyeing another round of deep cuts to its faculty. After laying off nine members of its full-time faculty last spring, it is eyeing a plan to ...
UMaine Orono dips into reserves amid declining enrollment
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJan. 30—The University of Maine Board of Trustees voted Monday to allow UMaine Orono to pull $5.7 million out of its savings to help close a $17 million budget gap caused in part by declining ...
UMaine System expects big drop in enrollment this fall, continuing downward trend
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJul. 1—The University of Maine System is likely to have significantly fewer students this coming school year, continuing a decade-long decline exacerbated by the pandemic. Official numbers won't ...
UMF launches college credit program for high school students
Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAug. 23—FARMINGTON — Beginning this fall, high school students in Maine will be able to pursue six new precollege tracks at the University of Maine at Farmington. Offered through Maine's Early ...
Struggling UMaine System sees some bright spots
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo News· 7 months agoNov. 6—After years of declining enrollment and substantial budget shortfalls, the University of Maine System is seeing some hopeful signs. "All of us know the headwinds higher education is confronting ...
Mills, LePage crisscross state to turn out voters
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNov. 6—Gov. Janet Mills' voice swelled with emotion last week as she stepped up on a small stage in Portland's Monument Square in front of about 200 fired-up supporters and vowed to defend a ...
Free community college program pulls students from UMaine System
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMar. 5—Graduate from high school. Go straight to a four-year college. That had long been Maxine Webb's plan. But when she heard that she could go to community college for free, that changed.
Maine's struggling child care industry gets much-needed boost from new state support
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoMay 27—New state investment in child care has given some who work in the long-struggling industry hope they will be able to survive. Child care providers in Maine have been hanging on by the ...
