Lower pay for hands-on learning at heart of dispute at Maine’s largest community college

By: Eesha Pendharkar

Outlets: Maine Morning Star

Published: September 2, 2026

Words: 742

Last Updated: 3 hours, 49 minutes ago

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At Maine’s largest community college campus, teaching an hour of electrical wiring, automotive repair or nursing clinicals does not count as a full hour of work under the faculty contract.

Instead, lab, shop and clinical hours at Southern Maine Community College count as 80% of a classroom hour, a provision faculty said devalues the hands-on instruction that makes up much of the community college’s workforce training. After at least a year of failed efforts to …

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