UMS TRUSTEES APPOINT NEW PRESIDENTS FOR UNIVERSITIES IN PRESQUE ISLE AND FARMINGTON
University of Maine System Chancellor James H. Page announced today that the System’s Board of Trustees approved two individuals he recommended as the next leaders of the University of Maine at Farmington and the University of Maine at Presque Isle. The Board’s executive committee met late Tuesday to consider the appointments.
Dr. Kathryn A. Foster, currently a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., was appointed as UMF’s next leader. In addition, Dr. Linda K. Schott, dean of the School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, was appointed as the next president at UMPI. They begin their new roles on the respective campuses on July 1 and each will receive a salary of $160,000.
“I very much look forward to having Dr. Foster and Dr. Schott join our team,” Chancellor Page explained. “I will look to them for fresh innovative ideas as we begin to design and implement systemic change at the University of Maine System.”