The provost called the decision difficult but said student enrollment in the program has dropped significantly.
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Portland sculptor’s show at USM Gorham goes for an artful walk
’20 Walks: Lin Lisberger’ shows off the artist’s skills as a carver as she turns personal experiences into wood sculptures.
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Tony Shalhoub helps open new USM arts center
The actor, who starred in ‘Monk’ and ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ is a 1977 graduate and has a performance space at the arts center named for him.
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Feds restore funding to USM program that helps veterans go to college
The Department of Education reversed its recent decision to cut more than $600,000 in already allocated funding for Veterans Upward Bound, which it said conflicted with the Trump administration’s priorities.
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Trump administration cancels USM college program for veterans
Veterans Upward Bound helps Maine vets go to college, but the U.S. Department of Education is cutting its funding, saying the program ‘conflicts’ with its priorities.
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11 art exhibits across Maine you shouldn’t miss this fall
Medieval art, photography, paintings or drawings: There is plenty of visual art to feed your eyes and your soul.
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Three-story University of Southern Maine art building receives Gorham approval
The building is proposed for the intersection of Campus Avenue and School Street (Route 114).
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USM eliminates public affairs office, lays off 3
The university says it will modernize the school’s communications strategy and create new positions to handle that work.
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Maine nonprofit hopes film festival devoted to addiction recovery could save lives
The REEL Recovery Film Festival is a two-day festival of documentary and feature films covering the recovery experience.
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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.’