AUGUSTA — Lewiston native Mark Tardif has been named director of communication, marketing and production services at University College, an administrative unit of the University of Maine at Augusta. Tardif has held teaching, journalism, administrative and communications positions in Maine, Massachusetts and London, U.K. For more than a decade, he served Unity College as associate director […]
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University of Maine at Augusta to relaunch vet tech program
BANGOR — The University of Maine at Augusta will revive a veterinary technology program in the fall semester of 2016, this time offering a bachelor’s degree. The former associate’s degree program was put on the chopping block in 2014, scheduled for phased elimination in order to help close a budget shortfall. The news sparked a […]
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Lawmakers visiting UMaine-Augusta for aging forum today
AUGUSTA (AP) — A forum at the University of Maine at Augusta will focus on the challenges facing the state’s growing elderly population. The event is being held Sunday at 2 p.m. in Jewett Auditorium. Democratic House Speaker Mark Eves and Republican Sen. David Burns, who are working on aging issues in the Legislature, are […]
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UMaine-Augusta gets $1M from anonymous donor
AUGUSTA (AP) — An anonymous donor has given more than $1 million to the University of Maine at Augusta’s capital campaign. Interim President Glenn Cummings said Thursday that the donor understands the vital role the university serves in the lives of working Maine residents. A university spokeswoman says the donor lives in Maine but is […]
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University of Maine at Augusta president leaving
AUGUSTA — The president of the University of Maine at Augusta is leaving to take a job in California, University of Maine System Chancellor James Page said Monday. Allyson Handley is stepping down to become the executive director of the National University’s Sanford Education Center, which will educate nonprofit leaders and teachers. Handley will stay […]