BIDDEFORD – Kirsten K. Brown of Salem received the academic honor of master of science in education in June from the University of New England in Biddeford.

Brown, accepted into the graduate school of education in 2000, has maintained a 4.0 grade point average throughout her program.

She previously earned an AmeriCorps Education Award for higher education totaling $9,400 through a national fellowship with AmeriCorps when she served in SAD 58 schools from 1999-2001.

A two-term AmeriCorps Promise Fellow with Ret. Gen. Colin Powell’s America’s Promise initiative in western Maine, Brown became program coordinator of Pathway Partners of SAD 58 in 2001. She is a graduate of the 2001 National Service Leadership Institute Class 28, along with 35 other national service leaders from across the United States. She has also been employed as an instructor of English for Adult and Community Education since 2000.

Upon presentation of her electronic graduate portfolio and Collaborative Action Research project on the economic and educational community development needs of northern Franklin County, her master’s thesis, Brown completed her program and received the degree of MSEd.

Brown has been named the new assistant director of Adult and Community Education for SAD 58.