Ashley Buttice is the 2020 recipient of the Student Development in Higher Education Excellence Award, presented to a graduating master’s student who has most exemplified combined academic and professional excellence with consistently exceptional classroom performance alongside outstanding service to the higher education graduate program, the university and the field.
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Jane Pappas is the 2020 recipient of the Social Justice in Higher Education Award, presented to a graduating student in the student development in higher education master’s program who has demonstrated deep and consistent commitment to understanding, analyzing, and advancing both theory and practice related to diversity, inclusivity, and social justice in higher education as evidenced by both academic and co-curricular pursuits and accomplishments during their graduate studies.
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Twenty years after earning his master’s degree at the University of Maine, Amir Reza has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Dr. Sue Estler Distinguished Higher Education Alumnus Award from the College of Education and Human Development graduate program in higher education.
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Elizabeth Allan, a professor of higher education at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on Texas Public Radio’s “The Source” radio show.
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Professor of higher education Elizabeth Allan and several higher education graduate students helped lead a full-day preconference institute at a recent NASPA Strategies Conference in New Orleans.
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KUNC in Colorado quoted Kathleen Gillon, an assistant professor of higher education at the University of Maine, for a report on Theta Pi Sigma, a new Greek letter organization at the University of Colorado Boulder that is open to members of any gender and sexual identity.
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The Hill quoted Elizabeth Allan, a professor of higher education at the University of Maine, in an article about a new anti-hazing bill that cleared the Florida Senate.
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Suzanne Estler, former associate professor of higher education and Equal Opportunity director, passed away April 10.
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University of Maine assistant professor of higher education Kathleen Gillon analyzes issues of race in fraternity and sorority life in the latest issue of New Directions for Student Services, for which she also served as lead editor.
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Elizabeth Allan, professor of higher education, spoke at Summit Internacional de Educación held in Santiago, Chile, Jan. 7–11.
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