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Pivot to Online Learning

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically shifted how courses and programs are being offered and how faculty and students are engaging in teaching and learning. USM OnTrack is building capacity across our system institutions to expand high-quality online learning for the Fall 2020 semester, with an eye toward sustaining and building upon these improvements into the future.

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October 1, 2026

The William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation is pleased to announce the formation of Digital Accessibility Communities of Practice (DA CoPs) to address discipline-specific accessibility challenges in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and Arts & Music. The CoPs aim to enhance the digital accessibility of courses and help ensure that disabled students can access instructional materials effectively and independently.

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