The University of Southern Maine scrambles to make budget cuts - Kirsten Sylvain, USM Free Press

Last month the University of Southern Maine community was surprised when university Chief Financial Officer Dick Campbell announced that USM had to cut over $5 million for the next fiscal year. Now administrators and faculty are scrambling to make the cuts by the April 5 deadline. Administrators and faculty were at work over break, meeting to discuss the cuts, but details on what will actually be cut have not yet been released. Neither USM college deans nor Provost Michael Stevenson would release any information on specific cuts for now. Dean Lynn Kuzma of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences did, however, state that she had not managed yet to meet the proposed cuts for their college. The area of academic affairs, i.e. instruction, faculty and programs, is responsible for coming up with 63.4 percent – over $3 million of the total cuts. http://usmfreepress.org/2013/04/01/the-university-of-southern-maine-scrambles-to-make-budget-cuts/