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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The Portland Press Herald published an op-ed this week that responds to recent reports about Maine’s mixed record on mental health support for children, and points to changes that could be made in rural communities and schools to better support whole-child development.
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The Rural Vitality Lab is a collaborative research partnership between the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development and Colby College that works to promote rural vitality in Maine and beyond, by better understanding the factors that contribute to creating and sustaining healthy developmental ecologies for youth.
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