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The taxpayers of Maine have each proper and purpose to be outraged on the newest boondoggle throughout the College of Maine System (UMS). It’s shameful sufficient that the chancellor withheld essential info from a presidential search committee, and much more shameful {that a} deal was lower with the chosen candidate to withdraw earlier than spending someday within the workplace. That is worse than a “bungled” course of. I believe it’s an outright rip-off, and it requires a radical investigation by the governor’s workplace. The folks ought to demand it.
As for Michael Laliberte, he ought to go away quietly and not using a single taxpayer’s greenback in his pocket. In my view, he lied by omission to the search committee. Does this justify a golden parachute ( probably amounting to $600,00)? If the UMS trustees have this type of cash to throw round, it might be significantly better used to endow scholarships (non-athletic) for deserving college students. As for the chancellor, I believe he also needs to go as a result of his management is now underneath a everlasting cloud.
The historical past of UMS chancellors’ tenure is a sorry one, averaging lower than 5 years, and the historical past of presidents’ tenures on the Orono campus is not any higher, averaging lower than 5 years since 1958. Previous to 1958, presidential tenures, excluding Arthur Hauck’s 24-year incumbency, averaged over 8 years.
Don’t inform me “occasions have modified.” I do know that. However the ideas of “proper” and “incorrect” haven’t modified, irrespective of how politicians and company CEOs have tried to distort them.
Harold A. Wheeler
Bangor
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