Category Archives: Colleges and Universities

Another Honor for Maine Maritime Academy, at an Important Time

Castine ME, Colleges and Universities, Community Colleges and Career-Technical Schools

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by James Fallows

This is an update, with news, about Maine Maritime Academy, an institution that perfectly illustrates an important theme we’ve developed in the American Futures project about education in this country. Fallows tells us about the continuing, well-deserved recognition MMA is receiving for the incredible “added value” of its degree programs. Poignantly, Fallows also offers an appreciation for the five MMA alumni who lost their lives when the cargo ship El Faro sank on October 1 during Hurricane Joaquin. (Read it here.)

Who Are You Calling a Vocational School? In Defense of Maine Maritime

Castine ME, Colleges and Universities, Community Colleges and Career-Technical Schools

Who Are You Calling a Vocational School? In Defense of Maine Maritime42a2f665b
by John Tierney
Holy cow. Now my blood pressure was rising, and I didn’t even have a dog in this fight. I didn’t go to MMA; I just wrote about it. But I resented – on behalf of Maine Maritime Academy and its students and faculty, past and present – the smug, arrogant condescension of her reply.  (Read it here.)