{"id":4426,"date":"2016-09-20T09:49:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T13:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=4426"},"modified":"2025-08-23T17:32:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T21:32:38","slug":"a-new-chapter-for-dr-schott-a-new-path-for-umpi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2016\/09\/20\/a-new-chapter-for-dr-schott-a-new-path-for-umpi\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Chapter for Dr. Schott"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nGoodbyes are hard. But UMPI\u2019s former president, Linda Schott, has had to say them as she has begun a new chapter in her life. Earlier this year she accepted a new position as president of Southern Oregon University. But although she might be gone, thanks to her, UMPI\u2019s on a whole new path.
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Schott served as president of UMPI for just four years. She spent her time developing relationships with folks on campus. Those relationships were founded on mutual respect, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been one of the best groups of faculty and staff I\u2019ve ever worked with,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

According to her, a president should always be honest and help build people up.<\/p>\n

Something she never took for granted was the face-to-face time she had with students.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important to listen to your students and find out their concerns,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s about digging into those cracks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before her arrival at UMPI, the university was looking for someone to help it develop an identity. Her leadership made her the visionary the campus was looking for.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe dramatically changed this place in four years,\u201d Ray Rice, UMPI interim president and provost, said. \u201cShe was incredibly forthright and had a vision in the first six months.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her vision included marketing UMPI so that others would take notice of this northern Maine gem.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were incredibly fortunate to get someone to take stock and see (UMPI\u2019s) strengths,\u201d Rice said.<\/p>\n

Developing that identity meant taking huge leaps in restructuring how the campus teaches. Because of Schott, UMPI is now a destination for proficiency-based education. Students now have many opportunities to prove their mastery of their knowledge.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s a visionary and strategic,\u201d Deborah Roark, executive director of university advancement, said. \u201cShe sees the big picture, the national picture. She put the university back on the playing field.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schott\u2019s resolve and commitment to UMPI can be attributed to her grit. That\u2019s a trait she\u2019s been developing since her days growing up on a Texas cattle farm.<\/p>\n

Schott, a proud feminist, has often blazed her own trail. She\u2019s faced opposition from male counterparts in her career. Her fight for equality led to her publishing a book on the history of women in the United States. Her determination has helped her go from teacher to administrator. That\u2019s an arc she\u2019ll continue in her new position in Oregon.<\/p>\n

Schott may have begun a new chapter in her life, but UMPI is a whole new story thanks to her. She put UMPI on a new path in her short term. It\u2019s one that the folks she leaves behind hope to continue to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Goodbyes are hard. But UMPI\u2019s former president, Linda Schott, has had to say them as she has begun a new chapter in her life. Earlier this year she accepted a new position as president of Southern Oregon University. But although she might be gone, thanks to her, UMPI\u2019s on a whole new path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8959,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426\/revisions\/8959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}