The University of Maine System Board of Trustees has approved promotion and/or tenure for 29 University of Maine faculty members. The professors, who represent the broad spectrum of UMaine academic programs, were nominated by University of Maine President Paul Ferguson after an extensive process reviewing their work in teaching, research and community service.
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The Katherine Miles Durst Child Development Learning Center at the University of Maine recently earned accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). The center is one of the oldest university-affiliated laboratory schools in the country, providing students in UMaine’s education and early childhood programs the opportunity to learn through teaching […]
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Janet Fairman, an associate research professor at UMaine’s Center for Research and Education and the Maine Education Policy Research Institute, was interviewed for a Kennebec Journal report on proficiency-based education, a new model for education that may become mandatory for all Maine public schools. Fairman said the new model could put Maine on the path […]
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A book written by Rich Kent, a UMaine associate professor in the College of Education and Human Development, was reviewed on the National Writing Project website. The reviewer, UMaine alumna Emilie Brand Manhart, wrote that “Writing on the Bus: Using Athletic Team Notebooks and Journals to Advance Learning and Performance in Sports,” offers a balanced […]
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The first speaker for the University of Maine Correll Presidential Lecture Series will be Ernest Morrell, director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College. He’ll speak March 26 about English language arts instruction.
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Callie MacQueston of Vinalhaven, a UMaine graduate student pursuing a master’s in human development, was featured in a coastal Village Soup newspaper article about her preparations for the Miss Collegiate America Pageant March 9-10 in San Antonio. MacQueston is representing the state of Vermont as an at-large contestant, according to the article. Contact: George Manlove, […]
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In a report on a recent hazing incident related to students and alumni of Youngstown State University, the Vindicator newspaper of Youngstown, Ohio, quoted UMaine education professor Mary Madden about why students participate in hazing. Madden, who along with UMaine’s Elizabeth Allan co-authored a landmark 2008 study into hazing, said students participate in hazing, theoretically, […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) interviewed two UMaine students for a feature report about their colorful courtship – a proposal made on the front page of a local newspaper supplement. Engineering major Sean Carter of Ellsworth popped the question last week to math graduate student Rachel Rier of Lubec in The Weekly, a supplement to the Bangor […]
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University of Maine professor of higher education and national pacesetter for hazing research Elizabeth Allan was interviewed for an in-depth article on hazing in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Allan, co-author of a national study on hazing with colleague UMaine research professor Mary Madden, said hazing is so ingrained in tradition that many participants simply […]
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An editorial in Sunday’s Florida Times-Union newspaper on ways to discourage hazing at colleges and universities notes that the University of Maine has become a center for hazing prevention research. The editorial noted a groundbreaking, three-year national study on hazing by UMaine professor of higher education Elizabeth Allan and colleague Mary Madden, and included comments […]
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