University of Maine trustees consider Malloy’s fate

PORTLAND, Maine (WMTW) – The College of Maine board of trustees put together to resolve the destiny of College of Maine System Chancellor Dannel Malloy.

Malloy was employed in Maine three years in the past after serving two phrases as governor of Connecticut. His contract, which features a $350,000 wage, expires June 30. Trustees are listening to from an outdoor agency that carried out a multi-year evaluate of his tenure.

In current weeks, the school senates of the College of Maine at Augusta, the College of Southern Maine and the College of Farmington have every issued no-confidence votes in Malloy. The College of Maine at Machias school endorsed these votes on Friday as nicely.

Malloy has mentioned he takes the resolutions severely and that the tempo of change all through the system is inflicting nervousness.

On Sunday, the UMS board of trustees introduced that Michael Laliberte had voluntarily withdrawn from his contract to be the following president of the College of Maine at Augusta. The settlement consists of paying Laliberte the primary yr of compensation that he would have earned, $205,000.

“There’s a rightful frustration with how that search went and it went badly,” Malloy mentioned. “Then again on the identical time, we have been doing a search right here at College of Southern Maine and it went extraordinarily nicely.”

In a joint assertion, Malloy and UMS Board of Trustees Chair Mark Gardner mentioned: “We take duty for the dearth of belief within the preliminary UMA presidential search course of and can transfer ahead to represent a brand new search committee and search new candidates with the steering of a brand new search agency, to be chosen after an intensive RFP course of. We decide to a search course of that’s inclusive and clear. It’s essential that members of the College of Maine at Augusta and UMS communities have faith within the integrity of the search course of, and within the shared governance that have to be the inspiration of a profitable search.”

Including to the frustration, 9 school members have been not too long ago “retrenched” on the College of Maine at Farmington after that campus noticed a 27% enrollment drop.

“There’s numerous points we’re coping with,” Malloy mentioned. “Economically, a superb a part of our income comes from tuition and when college students don’t come to the college, we now have actual challenges.”

These school members might be paid for 18 months, however folks at UMA say the lack of these in style school members might be felt.

The board of trustees assembly befell on Sunday and Monday on the College of Southern Maine. Throughout a public remark part, school members and college students expressed frustration with the system, saying management within the system is just too centralized.

“These aren’t the totality of the issues dealing with the College of Maine’s system,” mentioned school member James Prepare dinner. “These are the straws that broke the camel’s again.”

On Sunday, the board members heard an annual evaluate of Malloy’s efficiency throughout a closed-door session. They’ll take motion on his contract throughout their subsequent assembly.

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