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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PublishedApril 16, 2014
UMaine System administrator received $40,000 raise
The chancellor agrees others may object in this time of deep cuts, but he wanted to keep the system’s top financial officer from leaving.
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PublishedApril 14, 2014
Bowdoin College president says he’ll leave in 2015
Barry Mills will step down next year to pursue another ‘professional challenge.’
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PublishedApril 11, 2014
USM president reverses faculty layoffs
Theodora Kalikow says she is open to alternative plans for cutting the budget and will still eliminate about 35 staff positions.
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PublishedApril 11, 2014
USM’s Faculty Senate comes up with alternate plan to cut costs
The proposal includes a moratorium on using consultants, consolidating departments and campuses, and making the president, deans and provost teach classes.
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PublishedMarch 28, 2014
USM restores recreation and leisure studies program
The major had been one of four academic programs due to be eliminated as part of systemwide budget cuts.
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PublishedMarch 28, 2014
University of Maine announces $10 million in budget cuts
No faculty layoffs or program cuts are called for in the savings plan.
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PublishedMarch 26, 2014
Rejected Maine virtual school asks for reconsideration
Three charter commission members agree the proposal should get another chance, and a decision could come Tuesday.
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PublishedMarch 24, 2014
About 200 USM students stage walkout
Spurning an offer to meet with President Kalikow, they hold a two-hour protest of funding cuts.
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PublishedMarch 23, 2014
Prospect of bigger classes not sitting well with USM faculty, students
They say USM’s drive for fiscal efficiency will hurt academic quality and create a ‘diploma mill.’
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PublishedMarch 19, 2014
USM president: School must redefine its mission
She tells an all-campus meeting that it’s time for a smaller ‘metropolitan university’ where students have a direct role in the nearby towns.
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