The Trump administration on Tuesday said the State Department wants to ramp up scrutiny of applicants’ social media activity.
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Colby, Bates commencements celebrate student contributions, next steps
The two ceremonies Sunday recognized thousands of graduates from two of Maine’s premier private colleges.
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New Sharon: First Maine Baptist missionary to Burma remembered
George Dana Boardman, born in Livermore where his father was a Baptist minister, was initially going to serve in India but became the first Maine Baptist minister to Burma almost 200 years ago.
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Colby College women’s lacrosse closing in on title, history
The Mules have reached the NCAA Division III Final Four for the first time in a bid to win the program’s first national championship.
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Under federal pressure, some of Maine’s colleges are renaming DEI offices
Maine colleges are joining a national trend or scrubbing words like ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’ from department websites in favor of more neutral terms like ‘community’ and ‘belonging.’
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As Trump targets higher education, Maine colleges worry endowments are next
The state’s higher education leaders say Republican-backed bills to raise endowment taxes would produce negligible benefits while forcing schools to slash financial aid and operating budgets.
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Four Maine college presidents sign national letter decrying Trump education ‘overreach’
The presidents of Bowdoin, Bates, Colby and the University of New England joined more than 230 college leaders in rebuking the federal government’s ‘political interference’ in higher education.
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ACLU files class-action suit over revoked student visas throughout New England
The lawsuit seeks to restore the visa status of more than 100 international students in New England, although it’s unclear if any Maine international students have had their visas terminated.
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Lawmakers look to ban legacy admissions in Maine, but some colleges are pushing back
The bill would prevent public and private colleges and universities in Maine from considering whether an applicant’s parents went to or donated to the school in the admissions process.
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Maine doesn’t have a statewide system to track rape kits. Lawmakers are considering a bill to change that.
The legislation builds on initiatives to track kits and address backlogs in Cumberland, Kennebec and Penobscot counties.