Unity College

90 Quaker Hill Road, Unity, ME 04988 -  View Map

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• The Women's Environmental LEADership program, WE LEAD, educates and empowers female students, faculty and staff to become socially conscious environmental stewards and proactive members of their community.
• The program offerings include courses in women's studies, environmental speaker series, which brings both local and national figures to campus to share their experiences, a student-run organization that sponsors trips, a retreat, open circle gatherings, and other activities, a WE LEAD certificate that students earn while participating in WE LEAD.
• Unity College offers 20 Bachelor’s and 3 Associate’s degrees. We offer more environmental programs than any college in the U.S. This woman-centered program is designed to broaden and enrich the college experience, and to encourage personal discovery, empowerment, and a sense of community at the college and beyond.
• Unity College exists for the student whose love of the outdoors is reflected in their education and career choices. Unity college students typically place a premium on jobs that do not require sitting behind a desk! An education at Unity can be your first step to a position with a biological research center, state park, wildlife refuge, nature education center, or wilderness recreation organization.
• The College is 200 miles north of Boston, 40 miles from Augusta and Bangor, Maine, 15 miles from Waterville, Maine, and 25 miles from Historic Belfast on Penobscot Bay and 25 miles from the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
• The Unity College is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
• Profile last updated: 04/21/2008.

In the News:

• Meetings watch: Rural development interim committee (Quay County Sun)
  posted on July 13, 2011 at 06:02:27 am
  The Economic and Rural Development Interim Committee held their committee meeting at Mesalands Comm-unity College on July 6-7. The meeting focused on renewable energy which made Mesalands and the new North American Wind Re-search and Training Center,...
• Unity College green dorm moving forward (WCSH 6 Portland)
  posted on July 5, 2011 at 09:46:13 pm
  UNITY, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Construction is moving right along on the Terrahaus, a green dormitory for students at Unity College, what's expected to be the most energy efficient building of its kind in the country.
• Trumble takes post at Unity College (Morning Sentinel)
  posted on July 1, 2011 at 05:05:55 am
  UNITY -- William Trumble, a biomedical scholar and college administrator, was recently named the new vice president for academic affairs at Unity College.
• Obituaries today: Gloria Jean Whiting Jenkins, 54, of Harrisburg, was pastor at New Zion Fellowship Church (The Patriot-News)
  posted on June 28, 2011 at 02:11:13 pm
  The Rev. Gloria Jean Whiting Jenkins , 54, of Harrisburg, died on June 25, 2011. She was a 1975 graduate of Harrisburg High School; an alumna of Unity College, Unity, Maine, and of Thompson Institute.
• Unity College Green Dorm (WABI Bangor)
  posted on June 24, 2011 at 07:57:15 pm
  Unity College is putting themselves on the "green" map. As Meghan Hayward tells us, they're building a passive house residence, the first of its kind in the United States. Unity College is taking the slogan "go green" to another level. "We really believe there has to be consistency between . . .

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