Posts Tagged ‘University of Maine System’
Warming up to a Tuition Freeze
by Monnica Chan
March 14, 2012
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, in its recently released fourth quarter 2011 New England Community Survey, cited an emerging concern facing low- and moderate-income communities: the escalating cost of higher education.
The New England region has the highest average tuition and fee rates for 2011-12 across institutional sectors, according to the College Board's most ...
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University of Maine System Turns a Page for Chancellor
by John O. Harney
February 16, 2012
The University of Maine System Board of Trustees named James H. Page as the system's next chancellor.
Page, a 59-year-old Maine native. is principal and CEO of the James W. Sewall Co., in Old Town, Maine, and an adjunct professor in UMaine’s Department of Philosophy. Sewall Co. provides consulting in the areas of energy, infrastructure and ...
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Among Comings & Goings: Bates Taps Harvard Exec for Prez
by John O. Harney
December 8, 2011
Bates College trustees elected A. Clayton Spencer to be the eighth president in the school's 156-year history. Currently vice president for policy at Harvard, Spencer assumes the Bates post on July 1, 2012. She succeeds Nancy Cable, who has been interim president since July 1, 2011, when Elaine Hansen stepped down after nine years to ...
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Clark U Joins NEBHE’s Master Property Program
by NEBHE Staff
July 27, 2011
Clark University of Worcester, Mass., is the latest New England campus to join NEBHE's Master Property Program (MPP).
Clark joins the University of Maine System in New England and 49 institutions nationwide that cover more than 100 campuses with total insured values exceeding $78.9 billion.
Established in 1994 by the Midwestern Higher Education Compact, the MPP saved ...
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Maine Chancellor Pattenaude Won’t Seek Contract Extension, Duncan to Leave Carsey Institute
by John O. Harney
May 20, 2011
University of Maine System Chancellor Richard L. Pattenaude planned to tell system trustees that he will not seek an extension of his current contract, which expires next year at the end of June. Pattenaude has served as chancellor since 2007 and, before that, was president of the University of Southern Maine for 16 years. In ...
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Four Finalists Named to Lead UMaine Flagship in Orono
by John O. Harney
January 18, 2011
University of Maine System Chancellor Richard L. Pattenaude announced that a search committee has identified four finalists to become president of Maine’s flagship public university in Orono after current President Robert Kennedy steps down in June 2011.
The finalists are: · Donald J. Farish, president of Rowan University in New Jersey; · Paul W. Ferguson, provost ...
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NEBHE Announces 2011 Excellence Award Winners
by Christine Cassis
January 18, 2011
The New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) will hold its ninth annual New England Higher Education Excellence Awards on Friday, March 11, at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf Hotel.
Each year, NEBHE presents Regional Excellence Awards to individuals and organizations that have shown exceptional leadership on behalf of higher education and the advancement ...
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Maine Works on its System
by David Mabe
November 18, 2010
Trustees of the University of Maine System got an update this week regarding the financial and programmatic health of the state’s seven university campuses and its online and distance-learning initiative called University College.
Last year, projected budget shortfalls to the tune of $42.8 million prompted administrators to reevaluate the management and academic structures of the Maine ...
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Lessons from Restructuring the University of Maine System
by Richard L. Pattenaude
June 4, 2010
When faced with a challenge, the people of Maine tend to be very pragmatic and straightforward. Those cultural values helped guide our approach to dealing with a rapidly growing structural gap in the finances of the University of Maine System.
Even before the international financial crisis, we were looking at a $42.8 ...
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New Chiefs at Mount Ida, UMaine Farmington, Presque Isle; Former SCSU Prez Finds Footing at Slippery Rock
by John O. Harney
April 26, 2012
Mount Ida College announced that Barry Brown, provost, professor and former acting president of Suffolk University, would become president of the Newton, Mass. college, effective July 1.
University of Maine System trustees approved two new campus presidents. Kathryn A. Foster, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., was appointed president of the University ...
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