Howard Segal, a history professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in the U.S. News & World Report article, “Poorest states cut what experts say could help the most: Higher ed.” Maine and Mississippi “are the vanguard of what will happen to public higher education in many of the other 48 states, or already read more Segal Quoted in U.S. News & World Report Article on Higher Education Cuts in Poor States