Gorham Initiative work hurt by budget cuts
Posted on April 29, 2013 by Kirsten Sylvain in News
Faculty, staff and students have been working in one form or another since 1997 to improve the Gorham experience, but after $5 million in cuts this year, head of the Gorham Initiative and interim Dean for Graduate Studies Dahlia Lynn said that progress has been hindered. “Frankly, budget limitations brought some of that [progress] to [...]
Students still uneasy after Hammond talk
Posted on April 22, 2013 by Kirsten Sylvain in News
Coordinator of the Center for Sexualities and Gender Diversity Sarah Holmes organized a counter panel last week after minister Guy Hammond’s speech in Gorham left many LGBTQ students uneasy. The Christian student group Alpha Omega sponsored Hammond’s visit to campus last week in which he spoke to a largely Christian audience that stressed starting a [...]
The University of Southern Maine scrambles to make budget cuts
Posted on April 01, 2013 by Kirsten Sylvain in News
Last month the University of Southern Maine community was surprised when university Chief Financial Officer Dick Campbell announced that USM had to cut over $5 million for the next fiscal year. Now administrators and faculty are scrambling to make the cuts by the April 5 deadline. Administrators and faculty were at work over break, meeting [...]
Students engage community on sustainability
Posted on March 13, 2013 by Kirsten Sylvain in News
The Students for Environmental Awareness and Sustainability are eagerly awaiting the presentation of their long-planned event: CarbonFEST, a day of “edu-tainment” aimed at engaging and informing students, faculty and the community on climate change, divestment and other environmental issues this Wednesday. Starting a dialogue Shaun Carland, junior math and computer science major and president of [...]
“A difficult period ahead”: USM officials expect over $5 million in cuts for 2014
Posted on March 13, 2013 by Kirsten Sylvain in News
Members of faculty and the administration met on Friday to hear Chief Financial Officer Dick Campbell give his annual financial update. This year he not only reported that USM would face more than $5 million in cuts in fiscal year 2014, but he also showed those gathered a four-year projection of the cuts that he [...]
USM site of One Billion Rising rally
Posted on March 06, 2013 by Kirsten Sylvain in News
This Valentine’s Day the Woodbury Campus Student Center in Portland was packed with poets, writers, musicians, women activists and students as one of the sites for the global One Billion Rising rally that aimed to fight violence against women. One Billion Rising is a worldwide protest to end the staggeringly high rates of violence against [...]
Sign up now to participate in this year’s media training exercise!
Posted on February 14, 2013 by Kirsten Sylvain in News
Register for the event here Don’t panic – this is just an exercise. When you see a crowd of students and police responding to an emergency event on campus on April 12, don’t run off to call for help. This is just The Free Press’s helping the youth of Maine become name-taking, info-grubbing news hounds. [...]
Our Opinion: USM students should support recent faculty vote to work-to-rule
Posted on February 04, 2013 by Kirsten Sylvain in Our Opinion
I went to the University of Southern Maine’s Glickman Library today on a mission. I started on the first floor, found two girls hunkered down in the corner with stacks of books sitting on the table in front of them, and asked them if they had heard of the recent faculty decision to work-to-rule. “No [...]
Faculty discuss how to implement union vote
Posted on January 29, 2013 by Kirsten Sylvain in News
Faculty and committees at the University of Southern Maine gathered last week to discuss the recent work-to-rule vote of the USM chapter of the Associated Faculties of the University of Maine. The vote passed two weeks ago establishes that full-time USM faculty will only do what is specified within their current contracts. Ninety-three percent of [...]
Students question snow day policies: USM answers
Posted on January 21, 2013 by Kirsten Sylvain in News
Poor weather conditions Wednesday played a part in a University of Southern Maine shuttle bus fender bender and led to long commutes, and now, many students are questioning why classes were not canceled, delayed or let out early during the snowstorm. USM Chair of the Student Senate Chris Camire quickly realized that student frustration was [...]
