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Sarah Pierce of Greene, a student at Central Maine Community College in Auburn, has been named one of seven 2021 Students of the Year by the Maine Community College System Board of Trustees.
She enrolled at CMCC because she wanted a career change, according to a news release. She earned her degree in business administration in 2019 from CMCC and is enrolled in the college’s network security program.
Pierce is vice president of the Student Senate, president of the Gender Equity Club, and a student worker in IT. Her career goals include accident investigations and becoming a digital forensics investigator specializing in transportation accidents.
President of Kennebec Valley Community College stepping down, pursuing Ukraine scholarship
Richard Hopper will depart at the end of May, after working at the Fairfield college for the past eight years.
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When Richard Hopper came to Kennebec Valley Community College eight years ago as its new president, he was known as a World Bank education specialist and a Fulbright scholar.
Hopper is leaving the president’s post at KVCC at the end of this month, after being awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in Ukraine. He will be working with the Ukrainian government to adjust the country’s system for accreditation in higher education.
Kennebec Valley Community College on Thursday announced that President Richard Hopper will leave his position at the end of May to go to Ukraine on a Fullbright Program fellowship.
Hopper has led the school, part of the Maine Community College System, for the past eight years. KVCC has campuses in Fairfield and Hinckley.
The school said it will undertake a search for his successor early next year, and that KVCC Vice President of Student Affairs, Enrollment, and Public Relations Karen Normandin will serve as interim president for the 2021-22 academic year.
“These eight years leading KVCC have been an immense privilege,” Hopper said in a news release. “The institutional development and transformation by our leadership team, faculty, staff, students and community has exceeded anything we could have imagined.
In an effort to celebrate its graduating class in spite of the public health situation that still precludes large, in-person gatherings, the University of Maine at Presque Isle will host a Virtual Commencement ceremony in place of its traditional commencement exercises for the second time in its history.
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