Muskie students respond to cuts
Posted on March 26, 2014 by Sidney Dritz in News
Earlier this evening, nearly 40 students from the Muskie School of Public Policy met with the school’s Dean Joseph McDonnell and Associate Dean Andrew Coburn to discuss what a letter drafted by four student leaders at Muskie described as the disproportionate impact last Friday’s series of faculty retrenchments had on the school. “We urge you […]
Over two hundred students protest university budget cuts, sit-in
Posted on March 24, 2014 by Kirsten Sylvain, and Sam Hill in News
Update: 9:00 p.m. After nine hours of demonstrating, starting at the Law Building and moving into the Woodbury Campus Center, all but one of the protesters had left for the night. Update: 4:00 p.m. A smaller group of protesters remain at the Woodbury Campus Center, but they told the group they plan to be in […]
Student senate votes no confidence in USM president and council
Posted on March 22, 2014 by Kirsten Sylvain in News
The student senate voted no confidence tonight in President Theo Kalikow and her council following a series of cuts on Friday. More than 20 students gathered tonight at the Woodbury Campus Center in Portland to help the 13 present student senators draft a proposal that will be taken to the upcoming Sunday and Monday Board […]
Faculty Senate votes to reject first round of cuts
Posted on March 21, 2014 by Sidney Dritz in News
In a special meeting of the Faculty Senate in response to the series of faculty layoffs and program cut proposals, the Faculty Senate voted unanimously to reject the actions taken by the administration, including the layoffs and the proposed program cuts, despite its support for the idea of a metropolitan university. “I would like to […]
President gives official notice of termination to 12 despite protests
Posted on March 21, 2014 by Sidney Dritz in News
Just after 3:00 p.m. on Friday, President Theo Kalikow sent out an email officially announcing that 12 faculty members from nine departments have been laid-off over the course of the day. A group of students, numbering as many as one hundred at parts of the day, occupied the seventh floor of the Law Building, where […]
More than 100 gather in law building to protest faculty cuts
Posted on March 21, 2014 by Kirsten Sylvain, and Sam Hill in News
A group of more than 100 students have gathered on the 7th floor of the law building this morning to protest termination of faculty. More than 10 faculty members are set to have one-on-one meetings with Provost Michael Stevenson this morning and some think it will end in notification of their terminations. “I’m here because […]
Provost calls meetings for the morning, lay-offs of 11 to 12 faculty could follow
Posted on March 20, 2014 by Kirsten Sylvain in News
Tomorrow morning more than 10 USM faculty members will climb to the seventh floor office of the provost for back-to-back meetings that, some think, will end in notification of their terminations. Word spread quickly through social networks and between colleagues and students today that the provost called the meetings for tomorrow morning to lay-off additional […]
Students and faculty concerned about cuts, not vision
Posted on March 20, 2014 by Sam Hill in News
University President Theodora Kalikow hosted an all-campus meeting yesterday morning to discuss the future of the university within the University of Maine System, but students and faculty in attendance were set on discussing recent proposals to cut programs and faculty. Last week Kalikow announced proposed elimination of programs including American and New England Studies, Recreation […]
The three-way race for Student Body President
Posted on March 18, 2014 by Anthony Emerson in News
The debate is over, the campaigns are wrapping up and the first ballots are coming in. It’s a three-way race between the all-student-senator ticket Kyle Frazier and Rebecca Tanous, commuter students Jordan Miles and Luther Vigneualt and Erin Carlson, who at press time did not have a running mate. The single presidential debate was held […]
Four programs don’t make the cut in newest proposal
Posted on March 14, 2014 by Sidney Dritz in News
At a packed informational session of the Faculty Senate Friday, President Kalikow proposed cutting two undergraduate majors, one graduate program and the arts and humanities major on the Lewiston-Auburn campus. Kalikow proposed cutting the American and New England studies graduate program and undergraduate programs in recreation and leisure studies and geoscience. Geoscience is chaired by […]
