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Press Releases
Saint Joseph鈥檚 College Hosts 911 Commemorative Event Featuring Donato Tramuto
by 色虎视频 Press Room STANDISH, MAINE - On September [...]
Saint Joseph鈥檚 College of Maine Welcomes New Chaplain
The Saint Joseph鈥檚 College of Maine community welcomed Father Gabriel Muteru as its new College Chaplain.
Saint Joseph鈥檚 College to Receive $182,845 National Science Foundation Grant for a 鈥淐hemistry for the Community鈥� Program
U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Angus King (I-Maine) announced on August 31, 2018 that Saint Joseph鈥檚 College of Maine will receive a $182,845 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for its Development and Evaluation of a Service-Learning Focused Chemistry Curriculum or 鈥淐hemistry for the Community鈥� initiative.
Saint Joseph鈥檚 College Hosts Celebration Day for NASA-Maine Space Grant Consortium鈥檚 MERITS Program
The NASA-Maine Space Grant Consortium held their Celebration Day for the Maine Research Internships for Teachers and Students (MERITS) Program on the Saint Joseph鈥檚 College campus on Friday, August 3, 2018. Dr. Ryan Dorland, Assistant Professor of Sciences at Saint Joseph鈥檚 College, was awarded a one-year research grant for $20,000 from NASA through the MSGC to introduce satellite science and build nanosatellite prototypes in introductory calculus-based physics labs.
Portland Region Food Foundry Finds a Home at 色虎视频
The聽Greater Portland Council of Governments聽(GPCOG) announced that the聽Institute for Local Food Systems Innovation聽at Saint Joseph鈥檚 College in Standish will take on the role of steward and convener of the聽Portland Region Food Foundry.
Saint Joseph鈥檚 College Confers 581 Degrees to the Class of 2018
The 105th Saint Joseph鈥檚 College聽Commencement聽on Saturday, May 12, 2018, at 10 AM at the Sebago Lake campus celebrated the graduation of 581 students from three countries and 39 states, including 213 students hailing from Maine.
Select Press Coverage
- | WMTW News | 10/6/2022
- | Bangor Daily News | 1/5/2022
- | Portland Press Herald | 12/29/2021
- | Bangor Daily News | 4/26/2021
- | Mainebiz | 4/29/2019
- | Mainebiz | 8/27/2018聽
- | 8/10/2018听
- | American Journal | 7/19/2018听
- | Mainebiz | 5/31/18聽
- | WGME | 4/9/18聽
- | Maine Public | 3/16/2018聽
- | Windham Eagle | 3/18/2018聽
- | WCSH6 |聽
- | Portland Diocese | 2/26/18聽
- | Mercy Northeast | Winter 2018聽
- | Lakes Region Weekly | 2/16/18聽
- n | ANA-Maine Journal | Winter 2018聽
- | Press Herald | 12/20/17聽
- | WCSH6 |10/18/2017聽
- | Maine Today | 10/12/17聽
- | Maine Public | 9/25/2017聽
- | Live and Work in Maine | 8/15/2017聽
- | Press Herald | 1/17/2017聽
- | WMTW | 4/21/2017聽
- | WMTW | 5/13/2017聽
- | WGME | 9/17/2017聽
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College Leadership
色虎视频 of Maine is a private, liberal arts college led by a board of trustees, a president, and a leadership team.
President Joseph Cassidy, J.D.
Joseph L. Cassidy, JD is the 15th President of Saint Joseph鈥檚 College of Maine. He has been involved in education for over 30 years, serving students as a grade school teacher, high school teacher, college professor, and for the last 10 years as a college President in the Maine Community College System. He joined Saint Joseph鈥檚 in 2023 following six successful years as President of SMCC, Maine鈥檚 largest community college with over 6,200 students. He was previously president of Washington County Community College (WCCC) for five years.
While at SMCC, Cassidy implemented a strategic planning process that engaged all facets of the community - faculty, administration, staff, and students - and led to whole college reform. His 鈥減athways鈥� approach has led to new procedures and advising structures throughout the college, all designed to remove barriers to student success. He also expanded opportunities for success beyond SMCC with the creation of new and more robust articulation agreements with colleges throughout Maine and New England.
In addition to serving as president at SMCC and WCCC, Cassidy simultaneously served as interim president at Eastern Maine Community College in Bangor for the 2015-16 academic year. Cassidy began his career at WCCC as a faculty member. He once served as president of the WCCC Faculty Association and as mayor of the City of Calais.
College History
From the time the Sisters of Mercy arrived in Portland, Maine in 1873, they dreamed of applying the educational goals of Sister Catherine McAuley, who founded their order in Dublin, Ireland in 1831. After working toward this goal, the Portland Regional Community of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas founded Saint Joseph鈥檚 College in 1912 on the grounds of the Sisters of Mercy Motherhouse in the Deering district of Portland. It was chartered by the Maine Legislature in 1915. In 1949, the name of the College was changed, briefly, from Saint Joseph鈥檚 College to The College of Our Lady of Mercy. When the Sisters purchased the Verrill Estate and moved the College to Standish in 1956, they reinstated the original name of Saint Joseph鈥檚. Less than fifteen years later, in 1970, Saint Joseph鈥檚 became a co-educational institution. Then, in 1976, the College became a pioneer in distance education programs.
With more than a century of history, Saint Joseph鈥檚 College remains as Maine鈥檚 Catholic, liberal arts college, situated on the 474-acre campus on the shore of Sebago Lake in Standish, Maine, where students and staff enjoy views of 聽Mount Washington and the Presidential Range of the White Mountains. The College offers undergraduate and graduate degrees for men and women of all faiths and ages through campus and online educational programming.