Editor’s note: Story updated with livestream link. Nationally recognized sexuality professor, therapist and author Sandra Caron is the 2023 inductee into the Maine Women’s Hall of Fame. Caron, a longtime professor of family relations and human sexuality at the University of Maine, joins an esteemed list of honorees, starting with Sen. Margaret Chase Smith in […]
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Sandra Caron, professor of family relations and sexuality at the University of Maine, is the 2023 inductee into the Maine Women’s Hall of Fame. The Maine Women’s Hall of Fame recognizes those whose achievements have had a significant statewide impact, significantly improved the lives of women in Maine, and contributed an enduring value for women. […]
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The American Council on Education featured a story on how the University of Maine partners with the Maine Department of Labor’s Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) to provide a five-week learning experience called Step Up, to help prepare high school students and recent graduates on the autism spectrum to successfully transition to college.
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The Bangor Daily News, Republican Journal, Fiddlehead Focus and CentralMaine.com shared that the annual S-T-R-E-T-C-H Your Teaching Workshop, a low-cost professional development program for all preK to 12 educators, will be held March 18 at the Hutchinson Center in Belfast. Register online or by contacting Donna Kennison, mimiken7@gmail.com.
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News Center Maine, Mainebiz and the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel featured the induction of Sandra Caron, University of Maine professor of family relations and human sexuality, into the Maine Women’s Hall of Fame. Caron is scheduled to be inducted in a ceremony at 2 p.m. March 18, in the Farber Forum in Jewett Hall […]
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Katherine McCarthy of Greenville, North Carolina is a University of Maine graduate student pursuing her M.Ed in student development in higher education. McCarthy, who moved to Maine in fall of 2021, has a graduate assistantship for training and outreach in the Office of Diversity and inclusion and is heavily involved with the Center of Student […]
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Back in 2006 and 2007, Maria Low was in kindergarten at Capri Street School in Brewer, Maine. Joan Staffiere was the school’s principal. Low is now a college senior majoring in elementary education at the University of Maine, where Staffiere — who retired from a distinguished career as a public school teacher and administrator in […]
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The University of Maine recognized 3,010 students for achieving Dean’s List honors in the fall 2022 semester. Of the students who made the Dean’s List, 1,983 are from Maine, 957 are from 45 other states and 70 are from 25 countries other than the U.S. To be eligible for the Full-time Dean’s List, a student […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Mount Desert Islander and WMTW-TV (Channel 8 in Portland) featured a new University of Maine-led study that shows that parents raising children with serious mental illness and violent tendencies experience and express grief similar to those of children who have died, which informs how practitioners can help these caregivers cope with the […]
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The Maine Monitor interviewed Janet Fairman, co-director of the Maine Education Policy Research Institute (MEPRI) and associate professor in the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development, about Maine’s teacher shortage. The Bangor Daily News and News Center Maine shared the Maine Monitor report.
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