Dear UMaine students, families and other community members, Thank you for all your great ideas, your patience and understanding as plans for the UMaine 2021 virtual commencement presentation have advanced. We are a week away from the in-person stage walks of UMaine 2021 and 2020 graduates who have opted to participate. Nearly 1,000 undergraduate and […]
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I want to begin by thanking all the University of Maine graduating students and their parents who have contacted me and members of the Commencement Committee in recent weeks to share suggestions and comments about an in-person event with spectators. That feedback ranged from frustration that a fully in-person event would not be possible to […]
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President Joan Ferrini-Mundy was joined by Kimberly Whitehead, Geremy Chubbuck, Benjamin Evans, Kathleen Harding-Heber, and John Volin for a Virtual Town Hall on the topic of UMaine’s 2021 Commencement plans. A recording is available. The slides from this town hall are also available.
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Dear UMaine undergraduate and graduate students: Following my Feb. 10 memo about spring 2021 Commencement to the UMaine and UMM communities, we received many recommendations and ideas for alternative recognition events from students, parents and community members. We are aware of the petition to have some form of a 2021 in-person event, and the Commencement […]
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Dear University of Maine and University of Maine at Machias 2020 graduates and upcoming spring 2021 graduates-to-be — both undergraduates and graduate students. I hope that all of you are doing well. As we have all witnessed, these past 11 months of the pandemic have taken a toll worldwide. And for each of you, there […]
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