Updated May 11
Maine colleges, students to get more than $105 million in federal pandemic relief
At least half of the American Rescue Plan funding will be distributed to students as emergency financial aid.
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More than $105 million in federal funding is heading to Maine to help institutions of higher education and their students overcome the financial harm inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The emergency funds for colleges, universities and students will be drawn from the Biden administration’s American Rescue Plan. At least half will go directly into the pockets of students.
Students facing hunger, homelessness and other hardships will be able to apply for emergency cash assistance grants. Institutions will be able to use their shares of the funds to cope with revenue losses tied to the pandemic, and for testing and vaccinations.
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More than $105 million in federal funding is heading to Maine to help institutions of higher education and their students overcome the financial harm inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The emergency funds for colleges, universities and students will be drawn from the Biden administration’s American Rescue Plan. At least half will go directly into the pockets of students.
Students facing hunger, homelessness and other hardships will be able to apply for emergency cash assistance grants. Institutions will be able to use their shares of the funds to cope with revenue losses tied to the pandemic, and for testing and vaccinations.
Obituary – Judith Wilcox
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Judith Ann (Root) Wilcox, 85, passed away peacefully at her home on Saturday, May 1, 2021.
Judy was born Oct. 16, 1935, in Waterbury, Connecticut, the daughter of Charles Bertrand Root and Mildred (Granger) Root, and sister to Nancy (Root) Davis and Sandra Jean (Root) Gemmel. Judy attended Russell Elementary School and graduated from Crosby High School in Waterbury in 1953. She attended Bates College in Lewiston for two years before marrying U.S. Navy veteran Irv Wilcox, also of Waterbury, and settling in Kennebunkport.
In her youth, Judy was an active member of the choir and church youth group, Pilgrim Fellowship, of the Second Congregational Church of Waterbury. She started dating Irv at a church dance, sneaking him in as her “cousin.” They later became engaged at a New Year’s Eve dance, married at the church on Sept. 25, 1955 and continued dancing together throughout their marriage of 48 years.
Protesters at Bates College on Friday.
More than 200 students at Bates College in Lewiston turned out for a campus protest on Friday, demanding that administrators disarm and defund campus safety officers.
Patty Wight Bates protesters decorate a banner on Friday.
The protest was sparked by a March incident in which a campus safety officer tackled and handcuffed a student who had been drinking alcohol and refused to identify himself. Junior Ashka Jhaveri says the March incident uncovered systemic problems. It is abundantly clear that Bates campus safety can and does abuse its power to harm students and other members of our community, she says.
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Graduates arrive at the University of Southern Maine’s Hannaford Lecture Hall on Wednesday for their walk across the stage.
Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer
Saige Hughes waited in an empty Hannaford Hall at the University of Southern Maine on Wednesday afternoon. When her name was read aloud by the dean of students, Hughes walked past rows of vacant seats and stepped up to the stage. She pulled down her face mask to unveil a smile and posed for a photo.
The moment – signaling the end of Hughes’ college career at USM – was over as quickly as it began. A friend and fellow nursing student, Alexa Goodrich, captured it in a cellphone video from the back of the auditorium as a handful of staff in the sparsely populated lecture hall erupted in cheers.