Campus Currents: APPWG
The provost at the University of Maine asked all the deans the same question: How would you adapt your college to a 20 percent funding cut? For the College of Engineering, that would mean fewer majors …
General Student Senate on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution to express student displeasure with recently proposed academic program cuts that would eliminate several majors by the end of fiscal year 2014.
The resolution was brought to senate …
Approximately a dozen people protested with signs and slogans Monday as students and faculty met with administrators to discuss proposed academic cuts, at one point chanting, “Students first, hear our voice, it’s our school, it’s our …
Discussion sometimes became heated when more than 200 students and faculty attended an informational forum Monday to discuss proposed cuts that would eliminate majors in foreign languages, women’s studies, theater and music, among others.
Students and faculty have been organizing their response in preparation for today’s public information forum on the recently released proposal for restructuring the university’s academic offerings.
The Academic Program Prioritization Working Group’s interim report suggests eliminating 16 …
If one could buy stock in the University of Maine, it would have sunk to new lows after the release of the Academic Program Prioritization Working Group’s report on Wednesday, which called for the elimination of …
Cutting public administration is absurd choice
I hope the University of Maine decides not to completely cut the Department of Public Administration. You would think they would have pride in themselves for having the oldest program of …
Students in the Modern Languages and Classics Department are scared.
First-year modern languages student Keegan Burdette said she heard from one of her professors earlier this week that the university was considering cutting her major. It …
The Issue: The recommendations for eliminating faculty positions, courses and programs that were released Wednesday.
What We Think: The university is in its most preliminary planning stages for cuts. Students should let their voices be heard.
By 2014, the University of Maine will no longer have a public administration department; nor will it offer majors in theater, foreign languages, women’s studies or music if recommendations issued today are approved by President Robert Kennedy.
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