Estimated reading time: 3 minutes, 15 seconds. The state’s higher education community bade farewell to a living legend at the University of Maine at Farmington on Friday, August 19. Ron Milliken (pictured above in fall 2018), the longest-serving director of financial aid at a Maine college or university in recent memory, was celebrated for his… Read more »
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Mitchell Scholar Crosby Researches Ways to Curb the ‘Scourge’ of the Browntail Moth
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes, 24 seconds. As CBS News has reported, “The browntail moth is a scourge in America’s most forested state, where it defoliates trees and causes a rash in humans that resembles poison ivy.” Fortunately, a Mitchell Scholar is on the front lines of finding ways to manage the white-winged menace. Sadia… Read more »
Picture Story: The 2022 Welcome Celebration
A Warm Welcome for the 2022 Mitchell Scholars by Mitchell Institute on on Exposure
For Aube, Going the Extra MILE Pays Off
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes, 52 seconds. Like many college graduates ready to enter the job market in spring 2020, Noah Aube encountered an unexpected roadblock. Aube, the 2016 Mitchell Scholar from Cony High School, was on the cusp of graduating from Amherst College with a bachelor’s in computer science. His transcript featured Dean’s List… Read more »
Cash Writes in Press Herald Op-Ed: ‘We must fully account for true need in the cost of higher education’
Mitchell Institute President and CEO Jared Cash writes in the July 27, 2022, Portland Press Herald that “to fully understand the forces that are suppressing college enrollment nationwide, we need to look beyond the cost of higher education in terms of traditional expenses such as tuition, room, and board. Instead, it’s important to think more broadly about the true and sometimes invisible costs of earning a degree — and how this tally keeps higher education out of reach for too many Maine families.”