Colby, Bates and Bowdoin are in the top 25 for liberal arts schools while the University of Maine ranks 100th among public universities.
Schools and Education
Local, state and national schools and education news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Five Questions: UMF president Edward Serna
The president of the University of Maine at Farmington talks about the importance of communication in leadership.
UMaine System to consider changes to Maine’s only law school
The University of Maine Board of Trustees will vote Sept. 16 on a proposal aimed at addressing financial challenges, growing enrollment and improving academic programming.
Data breach at Pearson publishing giant compromised data on 1 million students, lawsuit alleges
The suit alleges the company, which operates in every state, concealed the breach from students and parents for more than four months.
Findings in fatal school bus crash lead Maine to consider fitness tests for drivers
A federal safety board has called for all states to require them, after finding that a lack of testing contributed to the deaths of a driver and a student in Iowa in 2017.
Mid-Maine Technical Center seeing early success in Outdoor Leadership program
The program gives students an opportunity to learn skills that will prepare them both for the workforce and a four-year college program.
Bill Clinton, Jeb Bush will speak at UNE in Biddeford
They will discuss education issues Sept. 27 as part of the George and Barbara Bush Distinguished Lecture Series.
UNE gets $1 million grant to grow business, innovation programs
The Biddeford-based University of New England says the gift will help create the P.D. Merrill Endowed Chair of Business.
Labor leader tells incoming Bates students to ‘become the missionaries of truth’
‘You are the ones who are going to have to clean up this mess,’ Dolores Huerta tells freshmen during the Lewiston college’s convocation ceremony Tuesday.
Maine school districts add 280 pre-kindergarten slots as state weighs expansion
About three-quarters of Maine’s districts now offer pre-K, and the state is considering how best to grow early-learning opportunities.