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A new program between the University of Maine and Thornton Academy is allowing students to get an engineering degree in just three years and save at least $24,000 in tuition.
Hoping to lure more Maine undergraduates pursuing full-time study, four University of Maine System campuses will offer financially challenged students free tuition.
James Herbert, who succeeded Danielle Ripich as president of the University of New England in July, discusses some early initiatives in a Q. and A. interview with Mainebiz Senior Writer Renee Cordes.
Husson University College of Business in Bangor has launched an undergraduate degree program in financial planning, a lucrative niche profession projected to see 30% employment growth nationwide between 2014 and 2024.
The University of Southern Maine Foundation launched a campaign to raise $15 million to fund its Promise Scholarship program, money that would provide up to 100 students with as much as 50% of their costs to attend the university.
University of Maine System Chancellor James Page has said that, if the state's economy is going to improve, Maine has to make it easier — and cheaper — for residents to earn a college degree. A year later, the University of Maine at Presque Isle has
After just three months in Maine's first post-secondary training program for mechanized logging equipment, Cody Dennison already has a couple of job options lined up with forestry companies.
Nearly half the registered nurses working in Midcoast and Downeast Maine are expected to retire or reduce work hours over the next 10 years, according to new report released Thursday by the Maine Nursing Action Coalition.
The U.S. Department of Labor awarded a $304,291 grant to the Aroostook County Action Program to support women seeking training in non-traditional jobs in northern Maine.
Netflix CEO and Bowdoin College graduate Reed Hastings has donated $5 million to his alma mater in Brunswick for a new program to improve graduation rates of students who are low-income, first-generation or traditionally under-represented.
A new certificate program in regulatory compliance launched by the University of Maine School of Law this fall will help non-lawyer professionals at businesses, nonprofits and government agencies across Maine navigate the regulatory minefield in
Saint Joseph's College of Maine has launched the Institute for Local Food Systems Innovation, an initiative with both private and public partners to develop the state's food and beverage industries and meet the region's food security goals.
Husson University in Bangor unveiled its new student townhouses, built at a cost of $6.5 million, that allow 63 students to live outside of traditional dormitories.
Like Maine, the demographics of the state's emergency providers highlights an emerging workforce problem requiring younger trained emergency medical technicians to replace the providers who will be retiring.
St. Joseph's College showed off its $4.7 million lighted sports complex with an evening ceremony Monday on the Sebago Lake campus in Standish.
The University of Maine System plans to invest $1.2 million to expand the University of Maine at Farmington's successful Peer-to-Peer Financial Literacy Program across Maine's seven public universities.
The Portland City Council is weighing a controversial proposed hike to the city’s minimum wage.
The proposal would increase the minimum wage from $15.50 per hour to $20 per hour within four years. (The statewide hourly minimum wage is $14.65.)
The proposal does not include a wage hike for tipped workers who are currently paid an hourly wage of $7.75, but employers are required to ensure that wages and tips combined total $15.50 per hour.
While inflation pressures have made it hard to survive on the minimum wage, many business owners are concerned the hike would cut already thin margins.
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