WFVX (FOX 22/ABC 7 in Bangor) covered the fourth annual Summer Educators Institute at the University of Maine in which more than 100 educators engaged in a series of workshops aimed at cultivating rural teacher leadership, middle-level education and teaching all learners.
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Campus Safety, Spectrum News and WFVX (FOX 22/ABC 7 in Bangor) highlighted a new online database from HazingInfo.org that was co-developed by the University of Maine and houses data on hazing deaths from the past 187 years. The Bangor Daily News shared the report from Spectrum.
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The Maine Monitor interviewed Janet Fairman, associate professor of education at the University of Maine and co-director of the Maine Education Policy Research Institute, on her work studying the issue of consolidating school districts. “I think that some of the opposition and withdrawals that we may be seeing now may be motivated from a desire […]
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WFVX (FOX 22/ABC 7 in Bangor) talked with Laura Bean, mentor teacher in residence at the University of Maine, on the university’s Rural Thrive program, a support network for Maine’s rural public school educators throughout their careers. Rural Thrive is a project through the College of Education and Human Development funded with $3.3 million in […]
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NBC News, People Magazine, FOX, the New York Post, India Today, New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV), WABI (Channel 5 in Bangor), WMTW (Channel 8 in Portland), The Bump and other news outlets nationwide highlighted Joan Alexander, who earned her Bachelor of Science in Education from UMaine more than six decades after she started working toward […]
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PEOPLE magazine featured Jules Hathaway of Veazie, Maine, who is 73 years old and recently graduated with a master’s degree in student development in higher education from the University of Maine.
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Mainebiz reported on a new program led by the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development state’s rural educators thrive by supporting them at key points in their careers. Rural Thrive: The Rural Educator Resilience Project launched this school year with a $3.3 million Congressionally Directed Spending award secured in Fiscal Year 2024 […]
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Partnership between hazing research pioneer Hank Nuwer, HazingInfo, the University of Maine, and the University of Washington Information School brings to life the stories of those killed by hazing At least 333 young people have lost their lives to hazing in the United States since 1838, with 122 recorded just since 2000, according to data […]
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Elizabeth Allan, professor of higher education leadership at the University of Maine, joined reporter Joey Hudson on The Mike Gallagher Show to talk about her work at the Hazing Prevention Research Lab and the need to gather data to better understand hazing that takes place in schools and on college campuses. The interview segment was […]
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For rural schools across the nation, teacher shortages and other workforce issues are a pressing concern. While all schools deal with these problems on some level, they are magnified in rural areas, where the pool of potential teachers is smaller, and especially in places where the economy and pay for public school educators have lagged […]
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