Associate professor of educational leadership Catharine Biddle, whose work focuses on ways that rural schools and communities respond to social and economic change in the 21st century, is this year’s University of Maine Presidential Public Engagement Achievement Award honoree.
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College of Education and Human Development dean Penny Bishop discussed teacher shortages in a recent Kennebec Journal article.
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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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Brianna Genthner, a third year athletic training student, has received the 2020 Wes Jordan Athletic Training Student Scholarship from the Maine Athletic Trainers’ Association.
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U.S. News & World Report has again recognized the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development as having one of the best online graduate programs for education in the country.
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The Rural School and Community Trust (RSCT) publishes a biennial review, entitled Why Rural Matters. It rates the 50 states on five “gauges” describing characteristics of each state’s rural schools. The most recent report, Why Rural Matters 2013-14, identified Maine as the one state nationwide where addressing the needs of rural schools mattered the most.
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Maine’s teacher shortages for the current year, reported by the U.S. Department of Education, include math, science, special education, world languages, English as a Second Language, gifted and talented, industrial arts, and school librarians. How can our schools meet the learning proficiency goals of our children if they cannot recruit fully qualified teachers?
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Timothy Reagan was named dean of the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development in March, and started at Shibles Hall in late June. Just a few weeks into his first academic year in Orono, Reagan answered some questions about his background and goals for the college moving forward.
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Plymouth State University’s Brendan Curtin and Samantha Noe joined forces with the University of Maine’s Alicia Valente to bring home the trophy to District One in the 7th Annual National Athletic Trainers’ Association Quiz Bowl.
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