Dear UMPI Community, When COVID-19 changed life on our campus, in our families and communities, and all across the United States just over a year ago, the Asian and Pacific Islander communities came under unfair attack, suffering hate crimes and bias incidents across the country. This was encouraged by misinformation and bigotry. In recent weeks,…
Dear UMPI Students, There are a great number of “what am I thankful for?” posts and memes circulating on social media this year—both the posts and their responses are often particularly poignant and powerful in this year of such overwhelming loss, experienced simultaneously as it has been on a global and very local and personal…
Dear UMPI Community, Tomorrow we celebrate Veteran’s Day and all of those who have served this nation honorably during times of conflict or in peacetime. Veteran’s Day originated as “Armistice Day” on Nov. 11, 1919– the very first anniversary of the end of World War I. It falls on the 11th day of the 11th…
Dear UMPI Community, One of the cornerstones of a college’s ability to provide an education to individuals and their families is to offer education within a civil and safe environment. More than anything else, UMPI has an obligation to provide such an environment to all of its students and extended community members as well as…
Dear UMPI Community, I am very pleased to share with you, today, our complete Strategic Plan 2025. As I note in its introductory letter, UMPI has been on a deliberate continuous improvement journey over the past five years, with ongoing work in areas ranging from organizational structure, to our campus culture, to our academic portfolio. …
To the UMPI campus and greater community– It is with great pleasure that I officially announce that the University of Maine at Presque Isle has been named one of the best colleges in the nation to work for, according to the 2020 survey by The Great Colleges to Work For® program. This is the very…
Dear UMPI Community, In this time of crisis, as our nation grapples with issues of racism, inequality, and how to move forward, UMPI leaders have come to an important determination. We have been clear in campus messages about our stance on racial injustice and our desire to approach it from an ethics of care. But…
To the UMPI community, On June 19th, 1865, Union forces landed at Galveston, Texas with the news that the Civil War had ended and that all of those who had been enslaved were now free. This news, of course, came two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Thus, Juneteenth is both our…
Dear UMPI Community, On behalf of Allen Salo, President of the University of Maine at Presque Isle’s AFUM Chapter, and the entire Associated Faculty of the Universities of Maine, I am very pleased to forward the organization’s statement on Racial Injustice, Black Lives Matter, and the death of George Floyd. As the statement (attached) notes,…
It can be especially disheartening and disturbing, in the midst of this pandemic that has now claimed over 100,000 American lives, to witness what seems to be an accelerating number of hate crimes and acts of violence stemming from racism. National crises such as the one we are experiencing inevitably disclose the starkest inequities in…
