The heads of the seven campuses affirm their support for diversity but don’t directly address the immigrant ban; meanwhile, the University of New England speaks to its own values.
Noel K. Gallagher
Noel Gallagher covers K-12 and higher education issues statewide. Her stories are a mix of breaking news and trend stories. In recent years, they’ve ranged from why college costs so much, the launch of the state’s first charter schools, how a school welcomed a transgender student and why Maine schools have a hard time finding teachers. She’s enough of a news nerd to enjoy sitting through legislative education committee meetings and hours-long school board meetings so you don’t have to.
The Maine Press Association has honored Noel’s work, but she says she writes for the readers, in the firm belief that an informed citizenry is key to a healthy democracy.
Noel is a California native who has worked at wire services, online websites and newspapers across the country. She was in Washington D.C. during the early Clinton years, covering AIDS activism in 1990s San Francisco, documenting the business of wine in Sonoma County and riding out the boom and bust cycle of the early Internet era in early 2000s Silicon Valley. She arrived in Maine at the beginning of the recession and wrote quite a bit about the downturn here.
In her free time, Noel writes the occasional cookbook review, spends an inordinate amount of time at the Portland Public Library and hangs out with her three fabulous kids and wonderful husband. She is not a former member of the band Oasis.
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Leaders of Maine’s private colleges denounce Trump’s immigration order
While the presidents of Bates, Bowdoin and Colby colleges issue the strongest criticism, top officials in the University of Maine System remain largely silent.
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Proposal would make struggling Machias campus part of UMaine Orono
Trustees are considering options including making UMaine Machias a ‘branch campus’ of the flagship 100 miles away.
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LePage nominates new members to UMaine System board
Deputy Attorney General Lisa Marchese and Prudential agent Kelly Martin, who chaired the University of Maine at Fort Kent Board of Visitors, are nominated to be trustees.
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LePage administration offers incentives for school districts to share programs
The Maine Department of Education will distribute grants to districts that find areas where they can partner with other schools to save money.
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In memoriam 2016: Remembering those we lost in Maine
America’s cultural landscape suffered a string of prominent losses in 2016, and in Maine we lost an array of artists and cultural icons, local heroes and environmental champions.
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Town of Dixfield shuts down police force over personnel issue
The department’s two members are put on paid administrative leave amid a probe of what a union official says relates to what the chief does during work hours.
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Standish family shares story of a young, once-promising life lost to schizophrenia
John ‘JT’ Norton, who died at 27, was a bright child and an athlete with lots of friends until the disease took over.
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Snowmobilers found safe after getting separated, stranded overnight in northern Maine
Two women spend the night trailside, and a third who went for help ran out of gas, the Maine Warden Service says.
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‘I believe in this,’ says founder of homegrown global health mission. So do many others
Partners for World Health, which sends discarded-but-usable medical supplies to people all over the world, is growing so fast that a donor bought the organization a larger facility.