Media report on Alfond gift of $240 million to UMS, UMaine
The Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, WABI (Channel 5), the Associated Press, Maine Public, News Center Maine and Mainebiz reported that the University of Maine System will receive a grant of $240 million from the Harold Alfond Foundation. A portion of the funds will be used to establish a system-wide College of Engineering, Computing and Information Science and for improvements to the engineering education infrastructure at the University of Maine. Centralmaine.com published an opinion piece about the funding. U.S. News & World Report, WMTW (Channel 8 in Portland), WQDY/WALZ radio station and The Washington Times shared the AP story. The Sun Journal shared the Press Herald story.