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Bread And Puppet Theatre Presents A Story Of Disorder In "The New World Order", Maine Perspective Sep 1991

Bread And Puppet Theatre Presents A Story Of Disorder In "The New World Order", Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

In a two-day performance that mixes parade and pageantry, workshops, and audience-as-performers, the Bread and Puppet Theatre of Glover, Vt. Will give a performance of its newest work: "Columbus: The New World Order, Part I and Part II," Sept. 27 and Sept. 29 at the University of Maine.


Profile Of Entering Class At Um, Maine Perspective Sep 1991

Profile Of Entering Class At Um, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

A bulleted list of demographics reported for the entering class of UMaine students, 1991. Of 1,787 first-year students, only 3% or 56 students were "federally recognized minority students."


Residential Living At Um: Redefining Community In Terms Of Diversity And Interdependence, Maine Perspective Sep 1991

Residential Living At Um: Redefining Community In Terms Of Diversity And Interdependence, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

When students live on campus, they become participants in a residential community. But unlike traditional views of community in which homogeneousness predominates on-campus residents this fall are being asked to incorporate defferences and welcome all students, while maintaining their individuality.


Um Observes Rape And Sexual Assault Awareness Week Earlier This Year, Maine Perspective Sep 1991

Um Observes Rape And Sexual Assault Awareness Week Earlier This Year, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

The University of Maine's annual Rape and Sexual Assault Awareness Week opens September 16, [1991], almost a month earlier than in past years, in an effort to provide information and education at the crucial time for first-year students.


Symposium Highlighted By Five Mainers Who Have Made A Difference In World Peace, Maine Perspective Aug 1991

Symposium Highlighted By Five Mainers Who Have Made A Difference In World Peace, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Eunice Baumann-Nelson, Robert Chandler Jr., Bernard Lown, Samantha Smith, and Doris Twitchell Allen have all lived very different lives. Yet on their journeys through life, they all shared a dream and became leaders in a quest.


While It's No Time To Celebrate, It Is Time To Reflect This Labor Day, Maine Perspective Aug 1991

While It's No Time To Celebrate, It Is Time To Reflect This Labor Day, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

There appears to be little to celebrate this Labor Day. The country remains deep in a recession with New England bearing the brunt. Layoffs, plant closings and budget deficits are affecting blue and white collar workers. Unemployment is at an all-time high.


Recommendations Of The Um Committee On Women's Programs Being Implemented, Maine Perspective Jun 1991

Recommendations Of The Um Committee On Women's Programs Being Implemented, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

University of Maine President Dale Lick has announced the establishment of a Women's Resource Center and a greater overall coordination of women's programming in response to recommendations in a report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Women's Programs.


Um's First Generation Of Women's Studies Students Learn How The Other Half Lives - And A Whole Lot More, Maine Perspective May 1991

Um's First Generation Of Women's Studies Students Learn How The Other Half Lives - And A Whole Lot More, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

A desire to learn about the other half of human history, a simple curiosity, or a need to fulfill a requirement prompts a wide variety of students to take Women's Studies courses. The effect the courses have had on on UM's first generation of Women's Studies students is rarely foreseen or expected - but keeps them coming back for more.


Thomas Jenkins In Touch With The Human Side Of Higher Education, Maine Perspective Apr 1991

Thomas Jenkins In Touch With The Human Side Of Higher Education, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

When Thomas Jenkins entered higher education almost four decades ago, he expected to be part of a process "that made this a better world."


Tom Chappell To Highlight Career Awareness Week, Maine Perspective Mar 1991

Tom Chappell To Highlight Career Awareness Week, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Social responsibility and ethics in the workplace, careers in social change and service, the benefits of volunteerism, the balancing act between work and family, and relationships between majors and careers will be among the topics explored by the University of Maine Career Center in Career Awareness Week on campus April 1-4.


More Education, Awareness Needed About Lesbian/Bisexual/Gay Concerns, Maine Perspective Mar 1991

More Education, Awareness Needed About Lesbian/Bisexual/Gay Concerns, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Graffiti is scrawled on a sidewalk. A door of a student's dorm room is splattered in red with a defamatory message. Publicity flyers are ripped from walls. There are derogatory jokes and name-calling. Threats and realities of physical violence. Harassment. All are prejudicial actions against a minority of the population. At issue is not race, color, religion, gender, age or nationality. At issue is sexual orientation. And because college campuses are microcosms of society, the actions occur at the University of Maine and at universities throughout the country that, by their very nature, are supposedly bastions of free expression and …


Women's Resource Center Transition Team Presents: A Spring Series Of Programs Honoring Women's Lives, Maine Perspective Mar 1991

Women's Resource Center Transition Team Presents: A Spring Series Of Programs Honoring Women's Lives, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

To continue the momentum and support for the Women's History Month celebration, the Women's Resource Center Transition Team invites the campus community to take part in a spring series of workshops devoted to women's development programs.


Reading Recovery: Early Intervention For At-Risk Youngsters, Maine Perspective Feb 1991

Reading Recovery: Early Intervention For At-Risk Youngsters, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Identifying first graders who are poor readers and teaching them effective reading strategies that allow them to make accelerated progress and never need remedial work is commitment the University of Maine has made a providing the specialized teacher training required to implement a successful Reading Recovery program in Maine schools, according to Robert Cobb, dean of the College of Education.


Display Advertisement For The Book Immigrant Odyssey: A French-Canadian Habitat In New England, Maine Perspective Feb 1991

Display Advertisement For The Book Immigrant Odyssey: A French-Canadian Habitat In New England, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

A rare first-hand account of Franco-American migration to New England, Immigrant Odyssey: A French-Canadian Habitant in New England, has been newly published by the University of Maine Press.


Labor In The 1990s: Recognizing A Community Of Interests, Maine Perspective Jan 1991

Labor In The 1990s: Recognizing A Community Of Interests, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

In the throes of a national recession, budget deficits and layoffs, "working people by the large are very scared," according to a University of Maine Labor Education Specialist. But they are not alone.


Computer Equipment Donation Earmarked For Um Students With Disabilities, Maine Perspective Jan 1991

Computer Equipment Donation Earmarked For Um Students With Disabilities, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

A donation of computer equipment to the University of Maine Department of Public Administration will soon allow graduate students with disabilities to contact people and access information on campus from their homes.


Studying Society, Knowing Ourselves, Maine Perspective Nov 1990

Studying Society, Knowing Ourselves, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

A looming recession. Escalating health care costs. Ethical responsibility in local government and journalism. The political and economic realities of the Persian Gulf Crisis. Social services for the homeless, families in crisis, and mentally ill. Such issues confront and challenge us on a daily basis. As members of a modern society, it is crucial that we understand ourselves and others. It is important to study society from the individual level to the level of cultures and populations, looking at the individual in interaction with other people, social systems and networks, all in an attempt to understand and appreciate the world …


Overseas Outlooks: Pluralism, Maine Perspective Nov 1990

Overseas Outlooks: Pluralism, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Pluralism, a concept which is growing in importance at the University, is easily considered in the abstract as a positive but vague goal. The USAID-sponsored CASS (Cooperative Association States for Scholarships) program is playing a significant role in transforming cultural diversity from an abstract ideal to a tangible reality.


Franco-American Center In 18th Year Of Publishing, Maine Perspective Nov 1990

Franco-American Center In 18th Year Of Publishing, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

The Franco-American Center, in its 18th year of publishing, has recently published its first issue of Le F.A.R.O.G. Forum for 1990-91.


Wynton Marsalis Teaches Master Class, Maine Perspective Nov 1990

Wynton Marsalis Teaches Master Class, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Photograph of master trumpet player, Wynton Marsalis, teaching a Master Class to over 150 UMaine students.


Stratton Upbeat About A Soviety-American Jazz Band, Maine Perspective Nov 1990

Stratton Upbeat About A Soviety-American Jazz Band, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

A U.S.-U.S.S.R. student/faculty exchange, the development of a professional teaching relationship, and the creation of the first Soviet-American Jazz Band are all on Don Stratton's agenda as he returns to the Soviet Union this fall.


Center Studies Possible Spirituality Beyond The Senses, Maine Perspective Nov 1990

Center Studies Possible Spirituality Beyond The Senses, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

It's an artist's inspiration and in the feelings one gets looking at a spectacular sunset. It can be found in dreams, premonitions, unexplained conincidences - even near-death experiences.


Overseas Outlooks, Maine Perspective Nov 1990

Overseas Outlooks, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Around the world, from Canada to Australia, from Latin America to the Soviet Union, in Western Europe and Japan, 57 University of Maine undergraduate and graduate students are enrolled in Study Abroad programs this fall, and four are involved in student teaching experiences abroad. More students will participate during the spring semester. Wherever they go, these students, like the 50 returned Study Abroad students currently on campus, will bring back to Maine an invaluable international perspective of the U.S.A. and the world.


Maine Perspective: Women's Initiatives, Maine Perspective Oct 1990

Maine Perspective: Women's Initiatives, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Issue of the Maine Perspective campus newsletter reviewing three major women's initiatives at the University of Maine.


Maine Perspective: Campus Participation Sought For New Council On Pluralism, Maine Perspective Oct 1990

Maine Perspective: Campus Participation Sought For New Council On Pluralism, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

A Standing Council on Pluralism at the University of Maine has been established to help develop, shape and foster and ideal vision of a campus which includes and celebrates cultural differences. Formation of the Council is one of Lick's responses to the recommendations set forth in the Report of the Commission on Pluralism for the University of Maine System, accepted by the Board of Trustees in January 1990.


Connecting, Maine Perspective Sep 1990

Connecting, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

The lecture hall was abuzz as the students filed into Sandy Caron's class. They knew there would be a guest lecturer, but few were prepared for who walked through the door. At first the woman appeared shy and hesitant. Dressed in a long calico gown and bonnett, she told the students she was there to "acquaint" them with the ways of family life as she knew them - back in the 1700s.


Confluence: A Series Celebration Multicultural Expression At The University Of Maine, Maine Perspective Sep 1990

Confluence: A Series Celebration Multicultural Expression At The University Of Maine, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

A calendar of public speakers scheduled by the Center for Multicultural Affairs to promote cultural diversity at the University of Maine.


Um's Children's Center Stands Ready To Assist Youngsters Fleeing Persian Gulf Crisis, Maine Perspective Sep 1990

Um's Children's Center Stands Ready To Assist Youngsters Fleeing Persian Gulf Crisis, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

The University of Maine's Children's Center has been tapped by the Maine Department of Human Services to coordinate emergency child care services in the event repatriated Americans fleeing Iraq in the midst of the Persian Gulf Crisis land at Bangor International Airport.


Forgotten Connections: Maine's Role In The Navajo Textile Trade, 1880-1930, Maine Perspective Aug 1990

Forgotten Connections: Maine's Role In The Navajo Textile Trade, 1880-1930, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

From 1880-1930, rugs, blankets, saddle blankets, throw pillows, and wall hangings made their way to Maine as souvenirs of vacations and honeymoons to the Southwest [United States]. Others were brought back by railroad employees or purchases through catalogs sent to the Northeast by reservation traders.


Decade Of Research Reveals Profile Of Um Students, Maine Perspective Aug 1990

Decade Of Research Reveals Profile Of Um Students, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

In coming weeks, thousands of first-year students will enter institutions of higher learning across the country and face new challenges. But more and more colleges and universities like the University of Maine are determined to minimize a traditional trauma some on-campus students encounter - roommate incompatibility.