Propelling overall enrollment growth is a 40% year-over-year increase in the number of University of Maine at Presque Isle students taking advantage of the YourPace online degree and certificate programs.
The still-new home to the University of Maine School of Law in Portland may soon expand to a newer home next door, and the process is already underway.
Leigh Saufley, dean of the University of Maine School of Law, offers an update on enrollment at the state's only law school, this year's graduating class and the school's Rural Practice Clinic in Fort Kent that opened in early 2023.
Over half of Maine’s population lives in a rural area, but over half of Maine’s lawyers are in Cumberland County. Maine Law’s Rural Practice Clinic, one of only a few rural clinics in the country, meets a pressing need.
Evolving work habits play out on the property market, sparking a growing number of conversions of unused or underused offices into other kinds of properties, from light industrial to residential and educational.
The final contenders were chosen from a pool of 77 applicants. The finalists are scheduled for in-person interviews with the mayor, city council and city staff April 14-15.