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Here's a TV report. It looks like this affects the entire Maine public college system. Here's the Chronicle story: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/jp/u-of-southern-maine-president-facing-budget-cuts-proposes-faculty-layoffs I googled and it appears the NEA has a system wide union for the full-time faculty. And the AFT has a system wide union for the part-time faculty. Here's a story: http://mainecampus.com/2012/01/19/part-time-faculty-union-to-enter-mediation-with-system-over-contract/ Who is above Provost Stevenson? Cordially, Keith Vanessa replied: The CGEU FB page picked up a Common Dreams link, http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/21-7 So I shared that on several FB pages along with alert request, Chronicle and local paper links -- plus a link to the U Southern Maine FB in case anyone wanted to leave a message. https://www.facebook.com/precarious.faculty.rising/posts/10202254592379137 While there, I saw a notice about a "Transition Program" http://usm.maine.edu/transition described as moving USM into the future, providing "quality, affordable" education while addressing "fiscal situation"

"The average full-time faculty salary at UMaine is around $80,000, according to Director of Public Relations Margaret Nagle. That includes lecturers, who work under an Associated Faculties of the Universities of Maine contract, though they are not tenure-eligible. "The pay is OK for the area," said Canniff, who holds a master's degree in poetry from UMaine. The adjunct faculty member is in debt and cannot make interest payments on his student loans, he said. As the budget shrinks and the number of freshmen grows, UMaine is relying more on faculty members like Canniff, who are not on a path to tenure and are paid less than professors. This trend has been exacerbated by a $36 million budget shortfall systemwide, $9.7 million of which UMaine must come up with in order to pass a balanced budget for fiscal year 2015. As part of that effort, 30 faculty members at UMaine who have left or are leaving teaching positions will not be replaced. Most of those positions were tenured, according to Jeffrey Hecker, provost and vice president for academic affairs. He identified music and English as departments that will be hit particularly hard as a result of the budget cuts."