AUGUSTA — Paul W. Ferguson has been named the University of Maine’s 19th president.
His appointment was ratified today by the University of Maine System Board of Trustees.
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He succeeds Robert Kennedy, who is stepping down in June, and will be paid $250,000 a year on a two-year contract.
Ferguson currently serves as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at Southern Illinois University. He’s also a professor of pharmacology and toxicology.
The three other finalists were Donald Farish, president at Rowan University in New Jersey; Daniel Julius, vice president for academic affairs at the University of Alaska System of Higher Education; and James Page, CEO of James W. Sewall Co. in Maine.
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