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Educational Technicians in Maine have the unique opportunity to complete their student teaching right in the classrooms where they are already working thanks to a new program provided by the University of Maine at Presque Isle.

The new K-8 Student Teaching Opportunity for Qualifying, Employed Educational Technicians, offered by UMPI’s College of Education, received approval from the Maine Department of Education’s Certification Division last semester, and six candidates already have taken advantage of the opportunity—one in Aroostook County, and five more in central, southern and western Maine.

When Larry French graduated from the University of Maine at Presque Isle with his degree in Criminal Justice, he never would have guessed that he’d have a future career in responding to disasters or develop a volunteer training program that would receive national attention.

The University of Maine at Presque Isle’s ART 101 Basic Design class is participating in a campus-wide project to make their (temporary) statement on the University. The students were tasked with creating “tape art” installations, using painter’s tape and a whole lot of imagination.

David Putnam, archaeologist/climate scientist and University of Maine at Presque Isle faculty member, has traveled the world to investigate climate change. But for the past few years, his work has centered in countries like Bhutan, China and, most recently, Mongolia, where he and his son have been looking to mountain glaciers and ancient shorelines to better understand how Earth’s climate has operated over time.

Dual Degree Program Maine’s Fastest and
Most Affordable Path to a College Diploma

Beginning in the Fall of 2015, students attending the Maine School of Science and Mathematics will be able to take advantage of the most comprehensive early-college pathway in Maine, potentially completing enough college-level coursework to earn an Associate’s degree in Liberal Studies from the University of Maine at Presque Isle in addition to a high school diploma. At $15 per credit hour, the 64-credit Associate’s degree could cost students and their families less than $1,000, a 93% savings over the traditional cost of a similar course load for Maine residents attending UMPI.

As part of the Maine Community Foundation’s Maine Policy Scholars Program, students from campuses throughout the University of Maine System are pursuing a year-long program of applied research in the area of Maine public policy during the 2014-2015 academic year.

At the University of Maine at Presque Isle, Kasandra Foster, a senior Business Administration major with an Accounting minor, is researching the economic struggles of dairy farmers in Maine and what can be done to help them. Foster will be recommending strategies that may help to open up more markets and create a stronger support system for the state’s dairy industry.