Early College

UMaine, UMaine Machias offering free early college online career pathway program

The University of Maine and its regional campus, the University of Maine at Machias, are offering new online Early College Career Pathways. Designed to introduce high school students to higher education and careers of interest, Early College Career Pathways are typically 15 credits or five courses that allow students to make progress toward a university […]

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Sudderly speaks with WVII about early college program

Kari Sudderly, an Early College Program coordinator at the University of Maine, talked with WVII (Channel 7) about the online Early College Career Pathways program that allows home-schooled and public school students who reside in Maine to take up to 12 college credits a year. More information about the program is online. The Bangor Daily News […]

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News Center advances UMaine’s Early College program

News Center Maine promoted the University of Maine’s Early College pathways online program for high school students. Mark Brewer, a professor of political science, and Patricia Libby, associate dean in the Division of Lifelong Learning, touted the program, noting that early college students have less anxiety about transitioning to college and have proven themselves ready […]

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Media advance new Early College Pathways offerings

The Bangor Daily News, the Sun Journal, Centralmaine.com and WQAD (Channel 8 in Davenport, Iowa) advanced four new Early College Pathways from the University of Maine. The program, designed to introduce high school students to higher education and careers of interest, now offers pathways for child development and family relations, teaching K–12, health and wellness, and outdoor leadership. Students and […]

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UMaine, UMM offer early college fall courses for high school students

Through a partnership between the Maine Department of Education and the University of Maine System, tuition is waived for all qualified public high school students in the state for as many as 12 college credits per year at the University of Maine or at the University of Maine at Machias. In addition, a reduced tuition […]

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Irja Hepler: Early College leads to hands-on engineering at ASCC

Irja Hepler started working at the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) before college, when she landed an internship as a sophomore in high school. Now Hepler, a civil engineering major from Orono, is a senior at UMaine.  “I really like math and I especially like applying it to the real world, […]

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Sun Journal previews early college outdoor leadership program

The Sun Journal announced the University of Maine Early College Program is offering an outdoor leadership pathway program for western Maine high school students to earn UMaine college credits tuition-free. The three-credit Wilderness First Responder course will be offered from Nov. 12 to June 18 at the University of Maine 4-H Camp and Learning Center […]

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