A symposium scheduled Friday, Nov. 9 at the Buchanan Alumni House is being organized by the UMaine College of Education and Human Development and the Office of the Vice President for Enrollment Management to bring together Maine teachers and school administrators to discuss and share ideas about recruiting international students. Nearly 60 participants in addition […]
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On Monday, Oct. 29, University of Maine President Paul Ferguson will hold Community Conversation 2.0, his second annual discussion with the UMaine community. The President’s Community Conversation 2.0 will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. in Wells Conference Center. This year, the President’s Community Conversation is being combined with the annual Employee Breakfast. […]
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An article in the Alaska Dispatch, originally published in the Christian Science Monitor, about hazing at secondary schools and universities becoming more frequent and more harmful than traditional pranks cited a 2008 study led by University of Maine researchers Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden on behalf of the National Collaborative for Hazing Research and Prevention. […]
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UMaine has been recognized again this year in multiple national college rankings for its outstanding academics and programs.
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A 2008 University of Maine study about hazing among post-secondary students was noted in a Christian Science Monitor report about a hazing incident involving a California high school soccer team. The report cited statistics from the study that 47 percent of students surveyed had experienced hazing before coming to college and 55 percent of students […]
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The University of Maine Intermedia MFA Program is presenting the first event in its Fall Visiting Lecture Series on Tuesday, Oct. 2. All of the presentations begin at 7 p.m. in Lord Hall and are free and open to the public. On Oct. 2, Jae Rhim Lee, a research fellow in the MIT Program in […]
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University of Maine College of Education and Human Development professor Elizabeth Allan was interviewed for National Public Radio report on a hazing town hall meeting at Florida A&M University, where a student died after a hazing incident last year. Allan, a leading national researcher on the topic of hazing and member of a select Texas […]
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Florida’s WCTV is reporting that UMaine education professor Elizabeth Allan, who in 2008 along with fellow faculty member Mary Madden authored a groundbreaking national study on hazing, will participate in a Sept. 20 town hall meeting at Florida A&M University. FAMU has been the site of recent hazing incidents. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777
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The Orlando Sentinel reported that UMaine education professor and nationally known hazing researcher Elizabeth Allan is one of the experts who is expected to attend a Sept. 20 meeting at Florida A&M University, the site of recent hazing incidents. Allan, the principal investigator for the National Study of Student Hazing in 2008, is serving on […]
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Susan Bennett Armistead, who teachers early literacy at UMaine and works with the program Raising Readers, was interviewed for a Maine Public Broadcasting Radio report on plans to increase literacy in Maine. Armistead said asking local communities to take control of their own literacy needs is a unique approach to reform. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) […]
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