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Chancellor Malloy is encouraging other System universities to find positions for faculty who lost their jobs due to budget shortfalls at the University of Maine at Farmington Orono, Maine — Following nearly a decade of declining enrollment, during which time the University of Maine at Farmington (UMF) saw its undergraduate… Read More about University of Maine System Chancellor Dannel Malloy explains Farmington budget crisis, faculty retrenchments

Edmondson comes to the University of Southern Maine (USM) from Penn State, which enrolls nearly 90,000 students, where she was a tenured full professor in the College of Education, and most recently led a regional campus, where she added eight degree programs to meet local workforce needs and colleagues described… Read More about Jacqueline Edmondson named 14th President of the University of Southern Maine

I am in receipt of a resolution of the University of Southern Maine (USM) Faculty Senate, approved in the last hour this afternoon to declare no confidence in my leadership as Chancellor of the University of Maine System (UMS). The resolution is included here (PDF). As I acknowledged when presented… Read More about University of Maine System Chancellor Dannel P. Malloy’s statement regarding University of Southern Maine Faculty Senate no-confidence vote

University of Maine System (UMS) Chancellor Dannel P. Malloy called Thursday for an immediate review of all active employment searches across the university system — including those led or supported by outside search consulting firms — and the System’s human resources policies on how employment searches are conducted. The review… Read More about University of Maine System Chancellor calls for review of employment searches and policy improvements

The University of Maine System Board of Trustees has received and reviewed the University of Maine at Augusta Faculty Senate resolutions adopted on May 11, 2022. This is a matter of utmost urgency and importance to the integrity of the University of Maine System and its universities. The Board acknowledges… Read More about University of Maine System Board Executive Committee public statement regarding University of Maine at Augusta Faculty Senate resolutions

Late yesterday, after meetings with both Dr. Michael Laliberte and me, the University of Maine at Augusta (UMA) Faculty Senate passed resolutions demanding that the recently concluded presidential search that resulted in the appointment of Dr. Laliberte be failed and expressing no confidence in me as chancellor. I take this… Read More about University of Maine System public statement by Chancellor Dannel P. Malloy regarding University of Maine at Augusta Faculty Senate resolutions

The University of Maine System (UMS) recently concluded a national search for president for the University of Maine at Augusta (UMA). The UMS Board of Trustees approved my recommendation to hire Michael Laliberte, who is currently the President of the State University of New York College of Technology at Delhi… Read More about University of Maine System public statement by Chancellor Dannel P. Malloy regarding University of Maine at Augusta president search

McDonnell, who serves on the faculty of the University of Southern Maine’s Muskie School and previously served as USM provost and a dean, is charged with continuing strategic plan implementation and fiscal stability during a two-year transitional leadership term; a national search for a new president will occur next year… Read More about Joseph McDonnell to serve as interim president of University of Maine at Farmington

Supplemental funding provided by the Maine Legislature and Governor Mills will allow Maine’s public universities to hold in-state tuition flat for the seventh time in a decade, and many Maine students will have their tuition and fees fully covered Augusta, Maine — Maine students attending the state’s public universities will… Read More about University of Maine System to hold tuition flat for Maine students, thanks to state support

Laliberte, who is currently President of the State University of New York at Delhi, will assume the UMA leadership post on Aug. 1 and has signed a three-year contract Augusta, Maine — Following the unanimous approval of the University of Maine System (UMS) Board of Trustees, Chancellor Dannel Malloy today… Read More about Michael Laliberte named next president of the University of Maine at Augusta