JAY — A feasibility study shows it would be more affordable in the long run to build a system to send sewage from North Jay to be treated in Livermore Falls than to continue to upgrade the Jay plant. In the short term, it would cost less to upgrade Jay’s plant, but it would need […]
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UMaine System panel backs program cuts at USM
PORTLAND (AP) — A University of Maine System committee is backing a plan to cut some programs at the University of Southern Maine. The Portland Press Herald reported (http://bit.ly/ZHj75q) that the committee voted 6-1 on Wednesday in favor of eliminating the undergraduate French major and master’s program in applied sciences. The full University of Maine […]
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University asks for more state funding to maintain tuition freeze
BANGOR — For the first time in three years, the University of Maine System plans to ask the state for an increase in the amount of funding the seven-campus network receives from taxpayers. Pending approval from the Board of Trustees, the system will ask for $182.2 million for fiscal year 2016 and $189.1 million for […]
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UMaine trustees to vote on operating budget
BANGOR (AP) — University of Maine System trustees are ready to vote on a proposed operating budget. Trustees will discuss a proposal to freeze in-state tuition for a third consecutive year. If approved Monday, it would be the first time that’s happened since the 1990s. All told, the proposed unified operating budget would total $529 […]
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UMaine trustees to discuss broad range of topics
FARMINGTON (AP) — University of Maine System trustees are meeting to discuss a range of topics from boosting recruitment of international students to creation of a new doctoral program at the University of Maine. Trustees are gathering Monday at the University of Maine at Farmington. They’ll be voting on a proposal for a doctoral program […]