Campus Currents: Budget
An independent analysis the University of Maine System and the University of Southern Maine are in sound financial shape has student leaders questioning why administrators are planning to cut academic programs to balance budgets.
According to the …
The University of Maine System board of trustees voted Monday to approve a plan to head off an estimated $42.8 million shortfall over the next five years.
The position of associate dean of students, once held by Ángel Loredo, has been eliminated. The layoff is the biggest cut of a single job since the recession began.
The Issue: Chancellor Pattenaude’s plan to restructure the University of Maine System.
What We Think: The Chancellor’s plan should cut administrative costs, not make cuts that will impede our education.
The chancellor’s plan identifies short- and long-term goals to help avoid an estimated $42.8 million budget shortfall in fiscal year 2013.
University of Maine System Chancellor Richard Pattenaude is expected to release his final restructuring plan Sept. 14, a document no one outside of the Chancellor and the board of trustees has read.
Pattenaude stated the restructuring of …
UMaine has balanced its budget for the current fiscal year, even after the budget gap ballooned from $8.8 million to $11 million.
The salary and benefits savings associated with eliminating or reducing 140 positions totals $5.8 million, according to a Friday morning press release.
The University of Maine Faculty Senate learned ways the university could cut costs and grappled with problems in a proposed incomplete-grade form during its April 22 meeting.
Faculty Senate members became frustrated with a proposed incomplete-grade form …
Margaret Gould Wescott doesn’t say she was laid off. She says she was fired.
“I’m an old union girl. All these euphemism words that come from downsized, laid off, those take the person out of it. I …
Bangor Daily News