Flagship Match praised in BDN editorial
The Bangor Daily News published the editorial, “Flagship Match gives UMaine a leg up, solves a piece of Maine’s workforce problem,” which praises one of the University of Maine’s latest admissions initiatives. The Flagship Match program allows qualified students from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and New Jersey to pay the same tuition and fees to attend UMaine as they would to attend their own state’s flagship campus. As of May 1, 2,447 first-year students had committed to attending UMaine, compared with 2,012 at the same time last year. Of those, 1,123 are from outside Maine, with about 79 percent from the six northeastern states targeted by Flagship Match, the editorial states.