FARMINGTON — Happy Mother’s Day, Dot White. You certainly have earned it. Dorothy Barker White, 89, of Jay, is a mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and as of Saturday, a graduate of the University of Maine at Farmington, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and a minor in music. Not bad for the woman who […]
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UMF President Kathryn Foster accepts position at New Jersey college
FARMINGTON — University of Maine at Farmington President Kathryn A. Foster has been named president of The College of New Jersey, University of Maine System Chancellor James H. Page announced Tuesday. An announcement event was held at the New Jersey campus Tuesday. Foster assumes her new position July 1. Foster, who is known as Kate, […]
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Maine Geography Bee winner
Joseph Luchsinger, a seventh-grade student from South Berwick, won the Maine Geography Bee on Friday at the University of Maine at Farmington. The bee is sponsored by National Geographic. Luchsinger is presented with an early admission letter to UMF by President Kathryn Foster based on his finishing high school and meeting UMF admission standards, she […]
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UMF’s long-range plan includes road, building changes
FARMINGTON — University of Maine at Farmington President Kathryn A. Foster gave Farmington selectmen a glimpse of a long-range planning strategy for the campus Tuesday night. The master plan, “Make No Little Plans — UMF 2017-2037,” is the first since 2002, Foster said. The “flexible set of recommendations for UMF to use over the next 20 years,” […]
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Magazine honors UMF President Foster
FARMINGTON — University of Maine at Farmington President Kathryn A. Foster was recently named one of “50 Mainers Charting the State’s Future” by Maine magazine. This annual distinction spotlights the state’s creative visionaries and bold leaders. Foster’s profile points to her purposeful work developing a new strategic plan for the college that is laying the […]
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UMF welcomes students; classes begin Sept. 2
FARMINGTON — All students at the University of Maine at Farmington will begin classes Wednesday, Sept. 2. First-year students are expected to arrive Saturday morning and move into residence halls before a matriculation ceremony at 3 p.m. in Dearborn Gymnasium. In a time-honored tradition, UMF President Kathryn Foster, Town Manager Dick Davis and UMF administrators […]
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Project>Login networking reception kicks off 2015 internship recruitment
FARMINGTON — Tyler Buck, a student at the University of Maine at Farmington, was recently hired as a full-time employee at Aptuitiv, a website and development company in Farmington. Buck, of Jay, has a few courses to finish his degree at UMF but gained the experience of “working in the real world” through an internship […]
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K. Foster: Thank you, greater Farmington
On behalf of an appreciative University of Maine at Farmington, thank you, Greater Farmington, for your extraordinary friendship and favor as UMF celebrated in recent weeks two very special occasions. At both the presidential inauguration on Oct. 4 and Charter Day on Oct. 9, the latter celebrating UMF’s founding 150 years ago as Maine’s first […]