Editorial: There’s still time to voice opinion on report

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Few university decisions cause more confusion, outrage, bitterness and fear than when programs get eliminated. At least some of the students who heard about the report released by the Academic Program Prioritization Working Group (APPWG) reacted in those ways.

We would like to remind understandably alarmed students that the report is not, by any means, the final word on what programs will be cut. The report lists only early recommendations, which now must go through several layers of approval. Students must realize that every one of the recommendations are subject to change.

One of the opportunities to effect change will occur on Monday, March 29 between 1 and 4 p.m. at Wells Conference Center. This will be an information forum, in which any member of the University of Maine community will be free to ask questions of and present concerns to the president, provost, APPWG members and deans of colleges.

The forum will be broken up by colleges, offering a small-group setting that is nonthreatening and informal. The report explicitly says the feedback from the forum will affect the final report due on April 8. Students should be there to listen, learn and make their voices be heard. UMaine is the students’ university, so go to the forum and have a say.

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