Month: March 2025

With changes in federal funding priorities and the Legislature advancing a state budget that flat-funds the University of Maine System for the next two years, the flagship is temporarily pausing new financial offers, including assistantships to graduate students, as it assesses what resources it will have to support these mission-critical… Read More about Amid funding uncertainty, University of Maine pauses new financial offers to graduate students

In his first in-person address to a joint session of the Legislature since becoming Chancellor in 2019, Malloy highlighted the System’s enrollment and retention growth, and its increasing output of new talent and innovation necessary to power the state’s economy. AUGUSTA, Maine — Despite the disadvantages of demographics and inadequate… Read More about State of University of Maine System is strong and innovative, Chancellor tells Legislature

ORONO, Maine — The University of Maine System (UMS) learned Monday that its funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been temporarily paused.  An email forwarded to the University of Maine that appears to have originated from the USDA’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer directs the Department’s… Read More about University of Maine System’s USDA funding ‘temporarily’ paused