UMaine to cut faculty and staff
Maine’s flagship public university announced on Thursday that it plans to eliminate positions to address a $19-million shortfall.
An inside look at 1 Maine school district’s push to embrace Trump’s stance on transgender students
Newly public emails and texts show how school leaders sought advice from conservative organizations and then debated behind the scenes over their new rules to exclude transgender students from sports.
Read the texts and emails of school leaders grappling with the legality of their new transgender student policy
More than 900 pages of emails, texts and other documents shed light on the outside influences that shaped the Sullivan-based school board’s decisions about transgender students and a state lawsuit.
What used to be one of Maine’s smallest universities has seen the biggest increase in students
Online learners have fueled enrollment growth at the University of Maine at Presque Isle, which preliminary numbers show is now the third biggest public university.
Maine universities hope to boost college aspirations with new course credits for high schoolers
The University of Maine System will accept credentials earned through the Jobs for Maine Graduates program.
UMaine is on the hook for the financial shortfalls of a hotel on campus
Now the public university plans to put students in the hotel to offset costs, but it will pay more than $1 million in rent each year to do so.
Read the records outlining UMaine’s deal with Hotel Ursa
Three main documents show the history and details of UMaine’s public-private partnership.