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Higher Education In Maine: A Conversation With Sally Vamvakias, Sally Vamvakias
Higher Education In Maine: A Conversation With Sally Vamvakias, Sally Vamvakias
Maine Policy Review
This conversation between Sally Vamvakias, former chair of the University of Maine System Board of Trustees took place on October 5, 1999. At the time, Vamvakias had just completed her ten-year tenure as a trustee, the last four as chair. In this forward-looking conversation, Vamvakias talks about the change that electronic forms of knowledge transmission are bringing to higher education, and lays out the challenges to the University of Maine System as we begin the new millennium. This interview was conducted for Maine Policy Review by Luisa S. Deprez of the University of Southern Maine.
A Dose Of Public Health Through Grassroots Advocacy: The Development Of Tobacco-Control Policy On A College Campus, G. Lea Bryant
A Dose Of Public Health Through Grassroots Advocacy: The Development Of Tobacco-Control Policy On A College Campus, G. Lea Bryant
Maine Policy Review
Maine has the unfortunate distinction of having the highest rate of tobacco use among 18- to 30-year-olds of any state in the nation. Moreover—as Bryant points out—first-time smoking among traditional college-age populations has risen nearly 30 percent in the past decade. Armed with these statistics, it is not difficult to conclude that college campuses in Maine face a serious public health issue. Carried by the momentum of recent tobacco-control policy developments at the state level, the University of Maine at Farmington (UMF) has passed a stringent new tobacco-control policy that places UMF in the forefront of nationwide efforts to curb …
The American University In Bulgaria: Institution-Building In A Developing Democracy, Edward B. Laverty, Roberta P. Laverty
The American University In Bulgaria: Institution-Building In A Developing Democracy, Edward B. Laverty, Roberta P. Laverty
Maine Policy Review
Edward and Roberta Laverty describe the new American University in Bulgaria (AUBG) that opened in September 1991. This is the first private educational institution opened in Bulgaria since World War II, and because of its affiliation with the University of Maine, it becasme the only fully accredited university in Eastern Europe..