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Published
June 16, 2022

Maine legislative panel grills UMaine chancellor over ‘egregious’ presidential search

UMaine Chancellor Dannel Malloy and the board of trustees Chairperson Trish Riley spoke virtually to the Legislature's Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs.
Published
June 2, 2022

UMaine System Chancellor Malloy to meet with legislators

Malloy will be virtually meeting with all thirteen members of the Maine Legislature's Education and Cultural Affairs committee. An agenda on what will be discussed has not yet been set.
Published
June 2, 2022

UMaine System Chancellor Dannel Malloy to meet with legislators

The June 16 online meeting will be with all 13 members of the Education and Cultural Affairs Committee.
Published
May 27, 2022

Final settlement with UMA president who withdrew from job includes $30,000 housing allowance payout

The deal between the University of Maine System and Michael Laliberte also ensures he will make a minimum of $235,000 annually for the next two years, with UMaine agreeing to pay the difference if a new job pays him less than that.
Published
May 23, 2022

Faculty members say departure of new UMA president not enough to quell concerns; some call for system chancellor to resign

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.

Published
May 22, 2022

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.
Published
May 14, 2022

More than 300 walk at UMaine Augusta’s first in-person ceremony since 2019

The event featured an address from diversity, equity and inclusion consultant Anthony James Jr., and the university's first degrees conferred under its new graduate programs.
Published
May 13, 2022

UMaine System chancellor calls for review of active employment searches and policies governing them

The change comes after faculty from the University of Maine at Augusta voted no confidence both in its presidential search and the chancellor.
Published
May 12, 2022

University of Maine at Augusta faculty senate votes no confidence in presidential search, system chancellor

During a five-hour meeting Wednesday, faculty members at UMA call for a new presidential search, following recent disclosures that faculty members and students at Michael R. Laliberte's former university in New York had voted no confidence in him.
Published
May 10, 2022

UMaine System union president says legitimacy of UMA presidential search was ‘destroyed’

University of Maine System faculty union President Jim McClymer sent the letter Tuesday morning in response to the hiring of President Michael Laliberte at University of Maine at Augusta.

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