Despite cold weather layoffs are heating up things in Maine (27 Oct 2009): Students at Maine's universities will start feeling budget cuts in a big way during the spring semester, the state's university system chancellor said Tuesday.
State lawmakers are asking the 45,000-student University of Maine System to cut $15 million from its budget this academic year and next.
That might require the seven-campus network to cut the equivalent of 100 full-time positions, Chancellor Richard Pattenaude told members of the Legislature's Education Committee.
Pattenaude was addressing the legislative panel along with Maine Community College System President John Fitzsimmons and Maine Maritime Academy Vice President Richard Ericson.