University of Maine campuses grapple with $36 million budget shortfall - Nell Gluckman, Bangor Daily News

The University of Maine System’s seven campuses and the system office are each working to close their share of a $36 million budget gap for fiscal year 2015 and are at varying stages of the painful process. Much of the gap will be filled by cutting employees. On Friday, UMS Chancellor James Page told the Legislature that up to 165 positions will be eliminated, plus an extra 95 positions if the Legislature moves ahead with proposed cuts. “When you have flat funding and rising costs, these gaps appear,” Page said in an interview last week. http://www.sunjournal.com/news/maine/2014/03/11/university-maine-campuses-grapple-36-million-budget-shortfall/1503129