The University of Maine is facing a projected $5.9 million shortfall in the budget for the next school year, part of which will be addressed through staff reductions including eight layoffs, a UMaine administrator said Tuesday.
“Next year is improved from where we started,” Janet Waldron, UMaine vice president for finance and administration, said during the first of the university’s budget workshop sessions. “The [following] years are extremely serious and are going to be very difficult, and will require strategic decision making by the institution. At this point, I don’t think any of us can see yet how we’re going to balance the budgets.”
