Maine Voices: Free community college comes with upsides and downsides

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Published
January 11, 2023

Maine Voices: Free community college comes with upsides and downsides

While more opportunity, more education and more support for underfunded institutions are good things, community colleges and other institutions must prepare for costs and other consequences.
Published
August 1, 2022

Applications swell with Maine’s offer of free community college

The state's seven community colleges see an 11 percent increase in summer applications compared to this time last year.
Published
July 17, 2022

Maine community colleges see enrollment shift to worker training programs

Community colleges around the country are expanding short-term workforce training programs hoping to make a dent in the national workforce shortage and provide low-barrier opportunities for economic mobility.
Published
June 22, 2022

Maine Community College System to continue requiring COVID-19 vaccinations, but not booster shots

The system also said Wednesday that decisions on masking policies will come from college presidents.
Published
May 16, 2022

Acting president of KVCC named as the college’s permanent leader

The Maine Community College System announced that current interim president Karen Normandin has been appointed as permanent president of Kennebec Valley Community College.
Published
May 4, 2022

Maine’s community college nursing programs to double enrollment thanks to $5 million funding boost

New funding from a public-private partnership between the state and two of Maine's largest health care providers to allow the Maine Community College System to increase nursing enrollment as soon as this fall.
Published
March 29, 2022

Maine community colleges to boost training for much-needed welding skills

A new grant-funded mobile welding lab will be able to travel to the college system's seven campuses to expand its instructional reach.
Published
February 27, 2022

Maine nursing schools see enrollments rise amid pandemic

Students preparing for hospital careers say they aren't discouraged by the pressures of the pandemic, and instead are eager to help.
Published
February 16, 2022

Maine Voices: Pay Maine community college instructors fairly before granting free tuition

The economic feasibility of a social good cannot rely on the continued perpetuation of a socioeconomic injustice.
Published
February 11, 2022

Students say free Maine community college tuition will ease financial strain

Gov. Mills touted her proposal in Auburn on Friday and some students say the plan sounds good, but they need to see details before determining how it will affect them.