PORTLAND (AP) — The University of Maine System’s trustees have rejected a proposal to close one the University of Southern Maine’s three campuses as an alternative to cutting faculty positions and eliminating academic programs.
Southern Maine administrators have proposed cutting 50 faculty positions and eliminating two academic programs in an effort to help close a $16 million budget gap for the next fiscal year.
The university’s faculty senate last week came up with the idea of closing one of the school’s campuses in Portland, Gorham and Lewiston instead.
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