Tag: budget
Direction Package Advisory Board focuses on the students
USM is still looking for ways to fill the $14 million budget deficit for the next fiscal year, and officials agreed, after a set...
Direction Package pushes for metropolitan university identity
Members of the Direction Package Advisory Board largely agreed that USM’s future should be as Maine’s metropolitan university, as the group’s meetings come to...
Athletics budget barely takes a hit
While academics is shouldering a hefty 63.4 percent of the $5 million budget shortfall at USM, the Athletics Department will only see a cut...
Faced with massive budget shortfall, colleges forced to make large cuts...
The University of Southern Maine's three major colleges have three weeks to come up with about $1 million each in budget cuts for fiscal year 2013 as a result of a budget shortfall of over $5 million. USM President Selma Botman and Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs John Wright's delivered the news to the faculty of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences on Friday in the Wiscamper Center.
