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Elsa Nunez is new to Maine, but she understands perfectly that the organization that brought her here is not what it claimed. Dr. Nunez joined the University of Maine System as vice chancellor last September, or thought she did. "We are not a system," she has concluded. "We're a loose federation of institutions in competition with each other."
Yes. And they are a costly federation that has sacrificed academic quality for political harmony. Rather than tell the public or, more dangerously, legislators that the current network of universities, campuses, centers and learning sites is unaffordable and will never become affordable, UMS has tried to toss more money at scholarships, draw more grants for research and development and expand university endowments. All of these should be pursued, but for other reasons. They do not solve the problem at hand.See the full content of this document
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Let's Make a University System
Access was what counted in higher education in the 1980s and '90s. Anyone who wanted to take a college course would have just a short drive to one of the seven university campuses or to a center (there are 11 of them) or a site (100 of them)...
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