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University of Southern Maine receives $5 million for new fine arts center from Bob Crewe s family foundation Chris Costa
University of Southern Maine receives $5 million for new fine arts center from Bob Crewe s family foundation
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The University of Southern Maine received a $5 million gift on Tuesday to build a new Center for the Arts on the University s Portland campus.
The gift comes from the Crewe Foundation, an organization named after prolific singer/songwriter Bob Crewe, whose music propelled Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons to fame. The Foundation provides support in the fields of fine arts and music by empowering aspiring artists and underserved youth to pursue, develop and realize their talents and goals.
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Graduates arrive at the University of Southern Maine’s Hannaford Lecture Hall on Wednesday for their walk across the stage.
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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.
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Confucius Institutes are billed by the Chinese Communist Party as benevolent language and culture programs and once numbered more than 100 on U.S. campuses across the country. But intelligence officials, members of Congress, and the Trump administration accused them of being an arm of the Chinese Communist Party, used for propaganda and malign foreign influence purposes. In part one of this series,
looks at how the once-ubiquitous institutions have waned over the past couple of years, shrinking in size and disappearing from dozens of colleges including an Ivy League school once seen as its flagship program.
The Chinese Communist Party-linked Confucius Institutes are collapsing in the United States, falling from over 100 to just over a couple dozen in a few years thanks to pressure from the Trump administration and growing concern within the U.S. government about the challenge posed by Chinese influence at U.S. colleges and universities.
China on campus: Confucius Institutes collapse nationwide msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.