The Bangor Daily News editorial “Maine GOP ‘welfare reform’ is for campaign trail, not major impact” cites two studies by Philip Trostel, a University of Maine economist. A 2010 paper by Trostel found Maine’s per-inmate spending in 2007 was the second highest in the nation at $64,155. His study earlier this year on taxpayer investment in […]
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The effects of poverty and how educators at all levels can make a difference will be the theme of a program offered by the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development on Friday, Oct. 18. Dr. Donna Beegle, an author and public speaker who uses her personal story and research to teach others […]
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WVII (Channel 7) reported on the University of Maine College for Education and Human Development’s “Flagship Forum: Conference for Maine School Counselors and Leaders.” The professional development opportunity focused on working with students who experience bullying. This year’s forum attracted nearly 300 participants.
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The Associated Press previewed the University of Maine College for Education and Human Development’s “Flagship Forum: Conference for Maine School Counselors and Leaders.” The professional development opportunity will focus on working with students who experience bullying. WGME (Channel 13), Portland Press Herald, WLBZ (Channel 2) and the San Francisco Chronicle were among news organizations to […]
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The Sun Journal spoke with Richard Kent, an associate professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Maine, about his new book, “Words of a Mountain.” The book is a collection of essays, poems and photographs in celebration of the small-town ski area of Black Mountain and the surrounding community […]
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Richard Kent, an associate professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Maine, has produced “Words for a Mountain,” a collection of essays, poems and photographs in celebration of the small-town ski area of Black Mountain and the surrounding community in the River Valley near the Maine towns of Rumford […]
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A new partnership between the University of Maine and the Margaret Chase Smith Library will bring the Maine National History Day competition for students in grades 6–12 to the UMaine campus starting in spring 2014. National History Day (NHD) is an academic program that promotes critical thinking, research and presentation skills through project-based learning for […]
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The University of Maine’s National Study on Student Hazing was cited in a News Channel 9 WSYR (Syracuse, N.Y.) report on hazing following the suspension of the men’s lacrosse team at Cornell University and the boy’s cross-country team at Baldwinsville High School in Baldwinsville, N.Y. The UMaine study found 61 percent of male college students […]
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The University of Maine College of Education and Human Development will host the Symposium on Gender in Higher Education from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3 in the Wells Conference Center on the UMaine campus. The professional development conference will explore issues of gender in higher education with a focus on intersectional approaches […]
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The University of Maine’s National Study on Student Hazing was cited in a Bloomberg News article on the suspension of Cornell University’s men’s lacrosse program following a hazing incident two years after the death of a sophomore led the school to ban hazing. The study found more than half of all U.S. college students in […]
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