System trustees approve graduate center startup funding, media report
The Portland Press Herald, Mainebiz, Bangor Daily News and WCSH (Channel 6 in Portland) covered the University of Maine System board meeting, where trustees voted unanimously to approve $15 million in first-stage funding to build a new graduate center for business, law and public policy in Portland. WCSH, BDN and the Press Herald previewed initial plans for the graduate center last week. A new, integrated University of Maine Master of Business Administration program would be based in Portland, but would allow MBA candidates to continue to take courses in Orono and remotely. According to the Press Herald, the new MBA will include executive education and certificate programs. “We have created something that will attract people to come to Maine. Millennials are looking for this kind of integrated program,” Eliot Cutler told the paper. Cutler developed the plan for the new $150 million graduate center. In an editorial, the Press Herald praised plans for the center, saying it would help Maine’s economy grow. Inside Higher Ed also reported on concerns about the center.