A Maine professors’ union says the University of Southern Maine’s decision to enact tighter controls on pop-up courses will penalize students.
[USM tightens control of pop-up courses after Collins protest]
The university is instituting the controls over pop-up courses following a course that proposed giving students credit for protesting against Republican Sen. Susan Collins. One of the changes is that funding for pop-up courses will only come from internal sources, and not grants.
That move meant terminating a subcontract with the Associated Faculties of the Universities of Maine related to grant funding for pop-up courses. The union said in a statement Tuesday that the union would have preferred the issue “could have been resolved without the elimination of a program that was clearly popular with our students.”
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The retired professor who offered the Collins course has been barred from teaching at USM.