UNE's growth noted in DownEast magazine story on Biddeford and Saco

The growth of the University of New England was discussed in the September 2010 Down East magazine story on Biddeford and Saco, Maine, titled "Two Cities, One History." The writer, Joshua F. Moore, notes that "One institution that certainly has not been held back from its potential by MERC or any of the other challenges facing Biddeford-Saco is the University of New England, which contains Maine’s only medical school and boasts a student body of some 4,493 people of all ages. UNE President Danielle Ripich has managed to leverage the best of Biddeford, Saco, and even the relative proximity of Portland in maximizing the school’s growth in recent years."  President Ripich is quoted saying: “Smart people ‘get’ Maine, and ‘get’ the quality of life that they find in the whole Biddeford-Saco region. ... We have people from Boston who come up two or three times a week. They’ll ride up on the Downeaster, so that’s really allowed us to have access to a pool of faculty that we wouldn’t have otherwise.”

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The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.