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Press Releases
Student Body President Elizabeth Cummons '20 Selected for Maine NEW Leadership Institute
Saint Joseph鈥檚 College Student Body President Elizabeth Cummons '20 was selected to become one of 28 Maine students to participate in the 2019 Maine NEW (National Education for Women) Leadership Institute.
Maine鈥檚 First College Hosting SilverSneakers Program Celebrates Launch of Institute for Integrative Aging
As Maine鈥檚 first college campus hosting the SilverSneakers fitness program for older adults, Saint Joseph鈥檚 College of Maine held a breakfast reception on May 10, 2019 that celebrated the successful launch of SilverSneakers as the first phase of the College鈥檚 Institute for Integrative Aging (IIA). The event welcomed award-winning global healthcare activist and Tivity Health CEO Donato J. Tramuto to campus. SilverSneakers, by Tivity Health, is the nation鈥檚 leading community fitness program for older Americans. Founded in 1992, the program is available to over 14.5 million Medicare beneficiaries through Medicare Advantage plans, Medicare Supplement carriers and group retiree plans.
New Mascot Revealed at Commencement Ceremony at Saint Joseph鈥檚 College of Maine
On Saturday, May 11, 2019, the College surprised the thousands gathered for the 106th Commencement ceremony by revealing the new Monks mascot character who stepped into the faculty procession line. Saint Joseph鈥檚 is the only college or university in the United States, in any NCAA division, to have 鈥淢onks鈥 as a mascot. The Monks mascot dates back to 1970, but the costumed figure has not been a presence on campus for many years. Graduates represented more than 40 states and seven countries.
Katherine Squires Rogers Selected as Online Student Speaker at 2019 Saint Joseph鈥檚 College Commencement
Katherine Squires Rogers of Elizabeth City, North Carolina (previously of Scarborough, Maine) will speak at the 2019 Saint Joseph鈥檚 College Commencement as she accepts her MBA from the College's online program.
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Funds Sustainability Education at Saint Joseph鈥檚 College of Maine
The National Endowment for the Humanities $34,995 grant supports the 鈥淓ducation for Sustainability through the Humanities Project鈥 which will develop and implement educational programming that helps formulate how to build sustainable human communities and solve global problems.
色虎视频 Will Award Honorary Doctorate to Sister Karen Schneider RSM, MD, MPH
Sister Karen Schneider RSM, MD, MPH will receive an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters during the Saint Joseph鈥檚 College Commencement exercises on Saturday, May 11, 2019.
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
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- | 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.