Over 40 majors in undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs.
Saint Joseph’s offers a personalized education geared toward your future.
Our campus is a resource for our neighbors, including pool use and cultural events.
A rich tradition in Catholic education for more than a hundred years.
Over 40 majors in undergraduate, graduate, and professional education programs
We make it easy to find your way into our community.
Saint Joe’s is the place where student life and community life come together.
A rich tradition in Catholic education for more than a hundred years.
There’s a popular Maine saying that goes, “You can’t get there from here” (and when pronounced properly in a full Maine accent, of course, sounds like, "Ya can't get they-ah from hey-ah." While it’s true that rural areas of Maine can’t offer the same public transit options like the buses or subways found in large [...]
Pearson's Town Farm is selling local, all-natural turkeys for your Thanksgiving dinner. Each turkey is pasture-raised, inspected, farm-fresh, and locally processed. Turkeys are available now for purchase at $5.00 per lb., with each averaging around 22 - 24 lbs. There are only a limited number of turkeys available for purchase, so be sure to reserve [...]
Saint Joseph’s College of Maine announced at a press conference today its launch of the Institute for Local Food Systems Innovation–a strategic partnership with federal, regional, and local governments, as well as corporations and individuals–that pursues the College’s long-standing initiatives in sustainability and community engagement, while contributing solutions to Maine’s need to recover manufacturing jobs, develop [...]
You’ve just enjoyed an excellent meal with your friends on campus and are cruising out the door to your next class. Your mind drifts off to thoughts about acing that biology exam, connecting with your friends for a weekend trip to the coast, and soaking up the warm weather that has finally arrived. But before [...]
In the wake of the Trump administration’s announcement of U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, more than a thousand leaders from 125 cities, 9 states, 902 businesses and investors, and 183 colleges and universities, including Saint Joseph’s College of Maine, have signed an open letter to the international community, supporting the Paris Agreement.
Alyssa Dolan’s passion for gardening may have started with planting potatoes in a bathtub on the lawn of her childhood home, but now she’s transplanting seedlings in a 30’x72’ greenhouse at Pearson’s Town Farm, preparing for the farm’s seedling sale over the next two weekends in May. After enrolling at Saint Joseph’s College in 2009, [...]
When Nhu Vo ’17, of Manchester, Maine, graduates this week, she will leave a legacy of outstanding civic engagement, environmental stewardship, and a maple tree, planted in her honor by Student Government. Vo’s civic engagement efforts, calling attention to issues of both local and global importance, so impressed the statewide coalition Maine Campus Compact that they [...]
A team of four Saint Joseph’s College science students won an Honorable Mention Award–one of only two awards given to undergraduate students from the 19 entries–at the poster session of the Maine Sustainability and Water Conference. The conference was organized by the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions of the University of Maine [...]
Rethinking Politics as Critically Engaged Citizenship By Mark Hibben, PhD As demonstrated over the last year, US national elections often reinforce feelings of bitterness and division. In fact, it is reasonable that many of us become disillusioned with what is often defined as “politics.” We may even become so disgusted that we commit to a [...]
The Saint Joseph’s strategic plan, Sustaining the Promise, positions the College to play a vital role in the future of Maine. By Ann Swardlick In 2014, two years after Saint Joseph’s celebrated its centennial, the trustees of the College adopted a new strategic plan,Sustaining the Promise: Toward Saint Joseph’s College’s Second Hundred Years . An “evergreen” plan, with [...]
