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Annual Report On Degrees Conferred (2009/10), University Of Maine System

General University of Maine Publications

This report provided a statistical history of degrees conferred by the University of Maine System. The data used in the history is based on the IPEDS reports on completions

Annual Report On Degrees Conferred (2009/10), University Of Maine

General University of Maine Publications

HIGHLIGHTS

 Maine’s public universities awarded 5,484 degrees during the 2009-10 academic year; an increase of 95 over the previous year.

 Nearly 75% of degrees conferred are at the baccalaureate level; over 16% at the masters level; nearly 5% at the associate level; and nearly 3% at the doctorate level (including law).

 73% of all degrees are conferred at UMaine and USM; 9% at UMA; 8% at UMF; nearly 5% at UMPI; 4% at UMFK; and 1.0% at UMM.

 Over 60% of degrees conferred are awarded to women and nearly 40% to men.

 STEM degrees awarded …

Maria J.C. A’ Becket: Rediscovering An American Artist, Christopher Volpe

Maine History

Maria J.C. a’ Becket (or Beckett, as she originally spelled her name) got her start as an artist in Portland, Maine and moved on to new venues in Boston, New York, Bar Harbor, and St.Augustine. She studied in France with well-known Barbizon School landscape painters and returned to American to develop a distinctly personal and American version of the genre. Although her work and legacy are obscure today, Becket was a pioneer professional woman painter and arguably the first woman to build a career as a landscape painter by popularizing the Barbizon style in America. Christopher Volpe moved to New …

Model Cities, Housing, And Renewal Policy In Portland, Maine: 1965-1974, John F. Bauman

Maine History

Shepherded through Congress by Maine Senator Edmund Muskie, the 1967 Model (or Demonstration) Cities Program was originally intended for the nation’s large, ghetto-ridden metropolises where it would target a host of social and economic programs including housing. Thanks to Senator Muskie, both Portland and Lewiston benefited. Before the Nixon Administration scuttled the program in 1973, Portland had created a host of innovative housing, social welfare, law enforcement, and educational programs, shifting the city’s urban renewal program away from its strict emphasis on brick-and-mortar planning. Portland was unique in making Model Cities a part of its downtown renewal. Energizing the city’s …

The Hillbillies Of Maine: Rural Communities, Radio, And Country Music Performers, Erica Risberg

Maine History

During the first third of the twentieth century, the United Sates underwent profound social, technological, and economic changes that fundamentally altered rural society. This shift created a divide between rural and urban dwellers, and by the 1930s, country people were developing their own cultural expressions, often reflecting the unique folkways of various regions — the South, Appalachia, the Ozark Plateau, the rural West. One such manifestation of country culture was old-time, or country-western music — also known as hillbilly music. At the time, radio broadcasting was at an experimental stage in reaching an American audience. Station WBLZ in Bangor covered …

Journal Cover And Toc, Maine Historical Society

Maine History

Cover, editors, and editorial board, and table of contents with authors' names.

Dawnbreaker Vol 58 No 2 (Winter 2010-2011), Dawnbreaker Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

“Taking Up The Slack”: Penobscot Bay Women And The Netting Industry, Nancy Payne Alexander

Maine History

Between 1860 and 1900 the economy of Penobscot Bay communities changed dramatically, from the steady growth and prosperity of their natural resource-based economy to the decline in population and a painful transition to manufacturing and service industries. Both men and women had enjoyed independence in their labor in the old economy. The new cash economy made it necessary for them to seek out new ways of supporting their families, with home manufacture, or putting out work, one way of earning an income. They remained independent from an employer’s direct supervision and earned cash payment, a change from the face-to-face economy …

Summary Of Fall 2010 Enrollments, University Of Maine System

General University of Maine Publications

This report provided summary information regarding University enrollments.

Multi-Year Financial Plan Fy2012—Fy2016, University Of Maine System

General University of Maine Publications

. This report introduced the planning process and presented financial planning elements and forecasted scenarios. It provided background on financial challenges and context for upcoming decisions. The purpose of this planning process was to consider the underlying financial conditions that face the System and the impact of alternative action steps that may address projected shortfalls in the future. This report offered a transparent assessment of the System’s financial challenges.

Umaine Today, University Of Maine, Division Of Marketing And Communications

UMaine Today

UMaine Today magazine, published twice a year by the University of Maine Division of Marketing and Communications, showcases creativity and achievement at the University of Maine. The goal of the general-interest magazine is to demonstrate the university’s value and contributions to the state, and to advance institutional goals.

Maine Peace Action Committee Newsletter, October 2010, Maine Peace Action Committee

General University of Maine Publications

MPAC compiled a newsletter consisting of essays, articles, short stories, poems, recipes, political cartoons, and artwork.

The Dandy Scroll, Fall 2010, University Of Maine Pulp And Paper Foundation

General University of Maine Publications

The Fall 2010 issue of The Dandy Scroll newsletter produced by the University of Maine Pulp and Paper Foundation.

University Of Maine Women's Ice Hockey Media Guide, 2010-2011, University Of Maine Athletic Media Relations Office

General University of Maine Publications

No abstract provided.

Dawnbreaker Vol 58 No 1 (Fall 2010), Dawnbreaker Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

Maine Folklife, Vol. 15, Iss. 2, Maine Folklife Center

Maine Folklife Center Newsletter

In April, 2010 we launched our Drive Dull Care Away campaign to raise the Sandy Ives Endowment fund to $1 million. Folklorist Nick Spitzer, who produces and hosts American Routes on NPR agreed to be our honorary chair of the campaign and came to Maine to speak at the University in support of the Maine Folklife Center and preserving the legacy of its founder, Edward D. "Sandy" Ives. The Ives legacy of teaching, fieldwork, publishing and public programming has come under threat due to University budget cuts. First the academic position was cut (teaching), then the archivist's position was cut …

Perch Pond Trail Map, University Of Maine

General University of Maine Publications

The University of Maine's Perch Pond trail map

Maine Folklife, Vol. 15, Special Issue, Maine Folklife Center

Maine Folklife Center Newsletter

Some day in the not-too-distant future, the Maine Folklife Center will have a self-supporting endowment. As a result, staff will continue to produce local cultural events, conduct folklife research, and care for the archives, without worrying about the Center's financial future. To make this dream a reality, the Folklife Center recently launched the Sandy Ives Endowment Campaign, through which the Center hopes to increase its endowment by $1 million. Income generated from the campaign will help support the Center's ongoing mission in light of recent unusual budget cuts at the University of Maine.

Field Hockey Media Guide, 2010, University Of Maine Athletic Media Relations

General University of Maine Publications

The University of Maine Field Hockey Complex is home to the Maine Black Bears. It features an all-turf playing surface, scoreboard and bleachers that seats up to 500 spectators.

Umaine Today, University Of Maine, Division Of Marketing And Communications

UMaine Today

UMaine Today magazine, published twice a year by the University of Maine Division of Marketing and Communications, showcases creativity and achievement at the University of Maine. The goal of the general-interest magazine is to demonstrate the university’s value and contributions to the state, and to advance institutional goals.

Maine Alumni Magazine, Volume 91, Number 2, Summer 2010, University Of Maine Alumni Association

UMaine Alumni Magazines - All

Contents:

Not Your Traditional Valedictorian: Eighteen years out of high school only increased Amy Smith's passion for learning --- Master of the Mile: All-American Riley Masters runs UMaine's first sub-four-minute mile --- Beyond Belt Tightening: UMaine's president calls for strategic planning to deal with the budget crunch --- Innovation for the Greater Good: Wireless telecom guru Ashok Jhunjhunwala works to help rural India --- Alumni Newsmakers: Major General John "Bill" Libby, Alexander Irvine, Sandy Blitz, Bryce Bayer --- Remembering a Native Son: Fred Hutchinson

Anthropology Department Annual Newsletter, Department Of Anthropology

General University of Maine Publications

Anthropology is the study of humans. Anthropologists study the entire spectrum of human existence from 6.5 million years ago when the first hominid set foot on the African continent, the process of human evolution, domestication of plants and animals, development of civilization, migration to the ends of the earth, and the present day diversity of cultures, religions, economies, and kinship systems seen around the world. Anthropology provides a well-rounded, generalist education that enhances wide career choices and provides students with the ability to critically evaluate theories, options, and actions that affect humankind.

Managed Investment Pool (Including Endowments) Year Ended June 30, 2010, University Of Maine System

General University of Maine Publications

University of Maine System managed investment pool (including endowments) annual report

University Of Maine System Defined Benefit Pension Fund Annual Report, University Of Maine System

General University of Maine Publications

The University of Maine System (UMS) Defined Benefit Pension Plan (Pension Plan) is a closed plan, maintained for eligible employees who chose not to join the Defined Contribution Plan established for hourly employees on July 1, 1998. This plan covers a shrinking group of active employees, vested terminated employees, and pensioners.

Fy11 Operating Budget And Student Charges, University Of Maine System

General University of Maine Publications

The University of Maine System operating budget and proposed student charges FY2011

The Governor’S Gallows: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain And The Clifton Harris Case, Jason Finkelstein

Maine History

In 1867, Auburn was home to one of the most vicious murders committed in the state’s history. Clifton Harris, a southern black teenager, was corralled for questioning and within hours confessed to the crime. He was tried and convicted solely upon his own confession, without any evidence against him. Harris became only the second prisoner ever to be executed in Thomaston State Prison. Indeed, the de facto abolition of the death penalty had taken place nearly three decades earlier, but Governor Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain steadfastly proclaimed that he would carry out Harris’s death sentence in the face of political opposition. …

Hanging Ebenezer Ball, William L. Welch

Maine History

Ebenezer Ball of Robbinston was the first man hanged for murder in Eastern Maine. A native of Massachusetts proper, he had drifted “downeast,” and become part of a lawless culture endemic to Maine’s borderlands in the early nineteenth century. Suspected of counterfeiting and confronted by authority ,he retreated to the woods, and a lawman died at his hands. Although he might have fled, he stayed, and was tried, convicted, and executed for murder in 1811. Ball’s case is seminal, since it gives us insight into the workings of the criminal justice system in Maine in the years prior to statehood. …

Penobscot Men, Michael Prokosch

Maine History

The Fowlers of Millinocket lie near the heart of Maine’s north woods story. Henry David Thoreau and Fannie Hardy Eckstorm saw the family’s wilderness existence as antithetical to the commercialization and industrialization of their times, but the Fowlers themselves adapted easily when water power, coal, and oil upended the woods economy around them. Their family history traces the energy revolutions that shaped the northern forest and our country. Mike Prokosch is an organizer, popular economics educator, and hiker who lives in Boston.

Saving Schoodic: A Story Of Development, Lost Settlement, And Preservation, Alan K. Workman

Maine History

Remote, isolated, and nearly barren Schoodic Point, now the easternmost part of Acadia National Park, was long bypassed by early explorers and settlers. It might have seemed destined to remain deserted, a candidate for coastal parkland preservation in the twentieth century. But like such distant outposts as Vinalhaven, Swan’s, and Ironbound islands, Schoodic in the nineteenth century was overtaken by extensive land development, logging, and settlement by fishermen farmers. Eventually its proximity to Bar Harbor made it a target for vacation resort cottages. Yet Schoodic’s peninsular ecology and elements of its social circumstances helped it escape such development in favor …

Groundbreaking Film On Harmful Chemicals In Cosmetics (Press Release, 2010), Maine Women's Policy Center Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.