Campus Currents: Janet Waldron
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.
What began as suspicion and curiosity has evolved into a battle in court for James Labrecque of Flexware Control Technology in Bangor. Labrecque has filed a court appeal against the University of Maine after the university’s administration failed to respond properly to the Freedom of Access request he submitted last Monday.
As University of Maine administrators enthusiastically pursue building an addition to the steam plant that would allow the university to generate their own electricity and heat, engineering faculty and students along with one very determined member of the community are doing whatever they can to stop them.
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