UMaine System board of trustees takes no action on Chancellor Dannel P. Malloy’s contract, which expires June 30, but expects to decide in the coming weeks whether to keep Malloy.
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Newly named UMA president agrees to deal to withdraw from position
Michael R. Laliberte, whose hiring was criticized after votes of no confidence at his former university came to light, to be paid salary of $205,000 in what would have been his first year.
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Colby College graduates hailed for resilience, perseverance
College presents diplomas to about 540 new graduates from 36 states and 23 countries.
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Furor followed Malloy from Connecticut to Maine
Malloy was once the least popular governor in the country and some in Connecticut are still upset about his reforms of that state’s higher education system.
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UMaine System faculty lose faith in chancellor as his contract comes up for renewal
‘He doesn’t understand or want to understand the issues the faculty are raising,’ said a professor from the Augusta campus, the first school to declare no confidence in Chancellor Dannel Malloy.
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The effects of faculty cuts ripple across UMF campus and into homes
After building roots in Farmington, will the professors eliminated from UMF’s humanities and social sciences programs leave the community they have come to love?
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‘Where will you go from here?’ Kennebec Valley Community College graduates 375 students
Commencement speaker Kristina Cannon reminded graduates of the importance of the role they have in their rural Maine towns.
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UMaine Machias faculty support other campuses’ no-confidence votes against chancellor
Faculty at the University of Maine at Machias voted unanimously this week to support earlier votes of no-confidence at UMA, USM and UMF.
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Residents give preliminary approval to Pittsfield-area school district’s $13.4 million budget
Maine School Administrative District 53, which serves Burnham, Detroit and Pittsfield, held its annual budget hearing Thursday.
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Teacher defends LGBT kindergarten lesson featured in anti-Mills ad
The kindergarten teacher is disappointed that Gov. Mills and the state Department of Education responded to criticism by removing her video lesson from the state’s website.