University of Maine at Machias

A focused effort to expand nursing education in response to projected health care workforce shortages has expanded nursing enrollment in Maine's public universities by 11% in the last seven years.

Hoping to lure more Maine undergraduates pursuing full-time study, four University of Maine System campuses will offer financially challenged students free tuition.

Circle B Farms in Caribou was recently named the University of Maine system's food aggregator for northern Maine.

University of Maine System trustees have approved an average 2.5% increase in in-state tuition and room-and-board costs for the fiscal year beginning in July, the first such increase in six years.

Maine's public universities marked Earth Day 2017 by announcing today a new investment policy linked to sustainability. The universities also released a report that shows the seven-campus UMaine System has achieved a 34% decline in carbon emissions over the last decade.

The University of Maine System Board of Trustees has unanimously approved a partnership between its flagship campus at Orono and UMaine Machias.

Orono and Fort Kent were the only schools in the University of Maine System to report enrollment increases over the past year. But system officials say that any revenue losses stemming from the lower enrollment numbers will be offset by an increase in the number of out-of-state students.

University of Maine system officials are proposing to establish a three-tiered tuition pricing model for the schools.

A 15-year trend in dropping enrollment at the University of Maine at Machias has led officials at the University of Maine System to announce a partnership between the struggling Downeast campus and the UMaine system's flagship campus in Orono.

The University of Maine System has announced its choice for the new food service vendor on six of its seven campus locations.