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Nonprofit gets $525K to boost Maine's educator workforce
April 10, 2024Funding will be used for the Teach Maine Center, a program focused on teacher recruitment and retention across the state.
April 10, 2024
New Americans play ‘crucial role’ in economy of Androscoggin County, report says
Updated: April 10, 2024The county’s labor force, business creation and consumer spending power have been bolstered by New Americans, the report by a Washington, D.C., nonprofit says.
Updated: April 10, 2024
After pandemic delay, Farmington campus opens expanded child care center
Updated: April 4, 2024The pandemic exposed a dire shortage in early childhood professionals in Maine. Sweatt-Winter serves as a lab school for UMF students majoring in early childhood education or early childhood special education.
Updated: April 4, 2024
Maine businesses, health care providers will get $24M for workforce development
April 2, 2024Business owners throughout Maine have said they have jobs available but have difficulty finding qualified and trained workers.
April 2, 2024
With $5M in new funds, SMCC is using simulation, mobile tech to educate future workers
April 1, 2024Southern Maine Community College in South Portland received $1 million in congressionally directed spending to start a new mobile learning lab van for STEM training and $4.1 million to establish a health care simulation lab.
April 1, 2024
At corporate spelling bee, Maine execs spar over words like 'pilcrow' and 'wobbulator'
March 28, 2024The final round came down to Jessica Estes, president of the Boulos Co., who was playing for Learning Works, and Jacqueline Edmondson, president of the University of Southern Maine, who was playing for the USM Scholarship Fund.
March 28, 2024
Maine Seacoast Mission’s $1.8M upgrade of Downeast campus is underway
March 28, 2024The first phase, soon to be completed, includes a center with an administrative wing, program staging area and new food pantry with more storage area and community space.
March 28, 2024
USM, Consigli top off Crewe Center for the Arts
March 28, 2024The traditional 'topping off' ceremony marked the addition of the last structural beam in the future Crewe Center for the Arts on the University of Southern Maine campus.
March 28, 2024
CMCC receives $3.3M to expand its health care training program
March 27, 2024Central Maine Community College in Auburn has received a $3.3 million federal award to expand the school's health care training with a 7,200-square-foot addition to Kirk Hall.
March 27, 2024
New Ventures Maine promotes longtime employee to program director
March 27, 2024New Ventures Maine has appointed Suzanne Senechal-Jandreau, who began with the education and economic development program in 1997, to the role of program director.
March 27, 2024
MDI Bio Lab builds housing to keep up with growing staff, student numbers
Updated: March 26, 2024Graduate program enrollment reached 24 students, up from nine in pre-pandemic years. The lab winterized cottages and built a student housing unit to accommodate a growing residential population.
Updated: March 26, 2024
Just in time for April 8 eclipse, a new sun is about to dawn at UMPI
March 25, 2024The largest object in the solar system will be represented via a new 3D model, 20 years in the making at the University of Maine at Presque Isle.
March 25, 2024
Lewiston startup accelerator for underserved entrepreneurs names starting lineup
Updated: March 15, 2024Out of more than 60 applicants, five were selected to participate in the inaugural Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll) Maine cohort.
Updated: March 15, 2024
On the Record: Maine Law enrollment ‘steady and growing,’ dean says, Fort Kent clinic thriving
Updated: March 18, 2024Leigh Saufley, dean of the University of Maine School of Law, offers an update on enrollment at the state's only law school, this year's graduating class and the school's Rural Practice Clinic in Fort Kent that opened in early 2023.
Updated: March 18, 2024
Business Leaders: The Ecology School’s Drew Dumsch transforms environmental learning
Updated: March 18, 2024Among the 2024 Business Leaders of the Year is the leader of the Ecology School, a nonprofit environmental living and learning center in Saco. Drew Dumsch has been directing the school through a transformation mode.
Updated: March 18, 2024
Business Leaders: At UMaine, Joan Ferrini-Mundy has been an advocate for STEM education
Updated: March 18, 2024One of the 2024 Business Leaders of the Year is Joan Ferrini-Mundy, president of the University of Maine. Under her leadership, the school has seen significant growth, including the opening of the $78 million Ferland Engineering Education and Design
Updated: March 18, 2024
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