School of Educational Leadership, Higher Education and Human Development

Bishop talks about educator accelerator program with WFVX

Penny Bishop, dean of the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development, was interviewed by WFVX-TV (Fox 22/ABC 7 in Bangor) about the educator accelerator program in RSU 34 (Old Town, Alton, Bradley) that pays preservice teachers to work in classrooms as paraprofessionals and substitutes.

Read more

AP article about college football camps cites UMaine-led hazing study

In an article about how fewer college football programs are leaving campus for training camps, the Associated Press spoke to University of Maine professor of higher education Elizabeth Allan about a study she conducted with colleague Mary Madden, which found that 57.1% of students reported hazing was most likely to happen off campus.

Read more

Allan writes op-ed about hazing prevention for MSNBC

Elizabeth Allan, professor of higher education at the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development, wrote an opinion piece for MSNBC about sexual assault and hazing in light of recent allegations of both behaviors in the Northwestern University football and other athletics programs.

Read more