The University of Maine at Farmington is looking to “eliminate most” of its more than two dozen adjunct faculty members, according to an email the Bangor Daily News reported on.
The newspaper said the last round of recent cuts already left the campus without a world languages department, a philosophy and religion department, and a women’s and gender studies department.
Ryan Low, vice chancellor for finance and administration for the University of Maine system, told Inside Higher Ed Farmington hasn’t had a balanced budget since 2015.
Low said its enrollment has dropped over 30 percent in the past decade, to hit around 1,300 full-time-equivalent students currently.
He didn’t tell Inside Higher Ed how many adjuncts are actually planned to be cut. He said that decision hasn’t been made.
“I think the campus is appropriately looking at faculty loads and essentially everything else in the budget,” he said.
