Title

Thirty years ago, the Maine Legislature appropriated $30,000 to pay for a study

Authors

Bennett Katz

Source

Maine Times

Date

10-15-1998

Pages

12

Abstract

Thirty years ago, the Maine Legislature appropriated $30,000 to pay for a study focusing on the future of Maine's public higher education. The report, entitled "The First Business of Our Times" and prepared by the Academy for Educational Development, resulted in legislation sponsored in 1967 by the author, Bennett Katz, who was then Senate chairman of the Education Committee. The bottom line was that all Maine public post-secondary education was to be put under a single board of trustees, led by a chancellor. The Maine Maritime Academy wanted no part of it and that legislation failed, but one year later, in 1968, the University of Maine System was established without the Maritime Academy. With a history of how the UMaine System evolved.

Subjects

University of Maine System

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