Khalil Kilani, of Portland, will pursue a graduate degree at Columbia University and go on to work at the U.S. Department of State.
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As Portland’s gotten cooler, are more Maine college grads staying? | Column
Census data shows the city has become more popular with recent college graduates, and some surveys of Maine students indicate more of them have been sticking around.
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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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Kudos to Bowdoin College’s women’s basketball squad
In March 2004, we were on vacation at Maho Bay in St. John’s in the Virgin Islands. During that time, Bowdoin College played Wilmington College (Ohio) in the finals of the Division III Women’s Basketball Championship. Games weren’t live-streamed back then, but Clark Truesdell, my former college roommate, was listening to it on the radio. […]
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Netflix founder donates $50 million to Bowdoin to study AI
The donation from alumnus Reed Hastings is the largest ever given to the Brunswick college.
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Diving into Maine’s eelgrass restoration push
Lucy Dutton spoke with The Times Record about her winter germination studies at the Coastal Studies Center. Her research sets the stage for future seagrass restoration in Casco Bay.