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State position: Member and chair, University of Maine System Board of Trustees (unpaid)
University of Maine System job: Vice President for Advancement at University of Southern Maine
Salary: $137,000
Date of appointment: March 2009
Job advertised: Yes
Job search: Yes
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Think back to elementary school.
Imagine yourself jump-roping or playing dodgeball when suddenly you trip and fall. How did your classmates react?
Imagine your parents dressed you in an outfit your peers considered “hideous” or “outrageous” in middle …
Republican lawmakers across the country have put forth bills and amendments that limit women’s access to birth control and have undermined the paramount abortion decision handed down in the Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade by …
The ship is taking on water at an incredible rate. Buckets are providing little relief. “Mayday” calls have thus far gone unanswered. And the sharks are circling, awaiting their sizable bounty as it plummets ever closer …
Ezra Klein recently wrote an interesting piece for The New Yorker in which he discussed the value of rhetoric as a presidential policy-shaping tool.
His conclusion, steeped in the work of political scientist George Edwards, is that …
Phew, it is hot. I love seeing everyone out and about, but it’s a bit weird, right?
In high school, the annual track team event was shoveling off the track during April vacation. That’s a month from …
The review process for a piece of writing is an arduous one.
First, you have to determine whether or not you’re actually finished with it. Then, you have to ask yourself if it’s any good. You have …
The language that is spoken internationally is no longer love.
Instead, it’s HTML text, gigabytes, emoticons and friend requests on Facebook. The tool that has single-handedly transformed the accepted form of communication — the Internet — may …
In my hands I have held friendship, love, death, hate, intrigue, adventure, loss and laughter. I am forever finding and losing bits of myself in the stories living between the covers.
I am a reader. Of books …
The University of Maine men’s basketball team continued to struggle in America East Conference play, falling at home to the University of Albany 76-68 on Saturday afternoon.
The Black Bears fall to 11-13 and 5-8 in America …
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