The Lewiston liberal arts school formally installed Garry Jenkins, a former University of Minnesota Law School dean and legal scholar. The ceremony was delayed from an original date last October, due to the shootings that killed 18 people.
Colby, Bates and Bowdoin colleges issued statements in response to last week's Supreme Court ruling against race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.
Prior to joining the Minnesota Law School, Garry W. Jenkins was a professor of law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law for 12 years, including eight years as associate dean for academic affairs.
An attempt to unionize by some employees of the Lewiston college has ratcheted up with an allegation that Bates has threatened workers for mounting the organizing campaign.
The union, the Bates Educators & Staff Organization, would be affiliated with the Maine Service Employees Association. Organizers say unionizing is an effort to improve working conditions and compensation and expand diversity efforts. Â
A $75 million modernization project is underway at the Lewiston liberal arts school's science facilities. The new showcase building is intended to extend science from the lab and into the limelight.
The Portland Museum of Art will remain closed until further notice, and Bates College is postponing its next semester by a month. Cases of COVID-19 in Maine are spiking, with the average number of new cases more than doubling over the past month.
Guiding principles for the reopening of Maine schools of higher education include making in-person, on-campus experiences as widely available as possible but also responding flexibly in order to ensure health and well-being.
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