UMaine System to consider changes to Maine's only law school
The University of Maine System may give its law school more independence from the University of Southern Maine in hopes of addressing financial challenges, growing enrollment and improving academic programming.
A plan to be considered by the board of trustees this month calls for, among other things, having the dean of the University of Maine School of Law report directly to the head of the university system and making funding decisions at the system level rather than at USM.
The proposed changes come at a key time as the law school is embarking on a search for a new dean and trying to determine how to best meet the needs of the state as Maine’s only law school.
Chancellor Dannel Malloy and USM President Glenn Cummings are behind the proposal that was shaped by a committee created to help chart the law school’s direction. Trustees will vote on the plan on Sept. 16.
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(Portland Press Herald)