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Scholars Speak Podcast: Kayla Girardin

With the 2025 edition of MILE II coming up on Saturday, March 1, at Unum, we catch up with Kayla Girardin, the 2013 Mitchell Scholar from Presque Isle High School and chair of the Mitchell Institute Alumni Council’s MILE II Planning Committee. Listen up as Girardin talks about why attending MILE II can help fast-track… Read more »

Loveland Joins the Truc Huynh Alumni Giving Society

With her most recent gift to the Mitchell Institute, Charis Loveland, the 1998 Mitchell Scholar from Bonny Eagle High School, a Bates College graduate, and global program manager for Amazon Web Services’ EPIC Emotional Intelligence Program, became the 19th and newest member of the Truc Huynh Alumni Giving Society. The Truc Huynh Alumni Giving Society… Read more »

Longtime University of Southern Maine Director of Athletics Named Mitchell Institute Higher Education Professional of the Year

PORTLAND, Maine — The Mitchell Institute, a Maine-based college scholarship foundation created by Senator George J. Mitchell to improve college access and outcomes for students from every community in Maine, recently announced that longtime University of Southern Maine Director of Athletics Al Bean has been selected as the organization’s 2024 Higher Education Professional of the… Read more »

Case Helps Mitchell Scholars ‘Do College Right’ with Video Advising Series

As the still-newish Scholar Research and Grants Manager, Kristen Case spends a lot of her days researching and analyzing Mitchell Scholar outcomes and developing funding proposals for foundations whose philanthropic investments are aligned with the Mitchell Institute’s mission and work. But there’s another Scholar-facing element to Case’s portfolio that’s new to the role: She also… Read more »