Author: Ray Rice

     I’ve been thinking a great deal over the past several weeks about what I am thankful about for having worked at UMPI for over 20 years now in several different roles—professor, provost, now president.  And as I was thinking...

     As I write this, our country deals with another tragic incident, this time the mass killings of worshippers in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.  This follows the Las Vegas shooting on Oct. 1, a shooting in a church in...

     Sixteen years ago this past Sept. 11, I recall leaving my 9:25 a.m. College Composition classroom in Pullen Hall on a clear blue morning and, as I made my way up to the Campus Center, hearing the first reports of the 9-11...

On behalf of the University of Maine at Presque Isle, it is my great pleasure to welcome all of you–new and returning students, community members, faculty and staff (old and new!)–to the start of the 2017-2018...

When I was a kid growing up in Massachusetts during the 1970s, we spent a lot of our classroom time under our desks.  This wasn’t some sort of insipid punishment for bad behavior in which we had to look for petrified chunks of...