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Votes at a glance: Board of Trustees meeting — March 2025
Summary
Summary of formal actions taken by the University of Maine System Board of Trustees at the March meeting, including policy adoptions, program authorizations, tenure approvals and capital project financing.
This page lists formal votes recorded during the University of Maine System Board of Trustees meeting in March 2025. Below are motions voted on in public session and the recorded procedural details available in the meeting transcript.
- Approval: FY2027 Board and committee meeting calendar. Moved by Trustee Kane; seconded by Trustee Eames. Outcome: passed (voice vote).
- Approval: Final Board Policy 2.12 (Free Speech, Academic Freedom and Civility). Moved by Trustee Virginia Alexander; seconded by Trustee Kane. Outcome: passed unanimously.
- Approval: Final version of the edited standard operating procedure on consent-agenda items forwarded by Board committees. Moved by Trustee Alexander; seconded by Trustee Kane. Outcome: passed (voice vote).
- Approval: Appointments of student representatives to the Board of Trustees (Isabella Bouchard, UMaine Machias; Cadence Dow, UMPI). Motion moved by Trustee Kane; seconded by Trustee Martin. Outcome: approved (voice vote).
- Approval: Authorization to develop and submit up to five 90-credit applied bachelor's programs for consideration by the regional accreditor. Moved by Trustee Martin; seconded by Trustee Kane. Outcome: unanimous approval to authorize development and submission.
- Approval: Tenure recommendations for 54 faculty candidates, effective 09/01/2025 (academic-year appointments) and 07/01/2025 (fiscal-year appointments). Motion moved by Trustee Kane; seconded by Trustee Martin. Outcome: approved.
- Approval: Tenure-at-time-of-hire (associate professor in Environmental Science) at University of Southern Maine, effective 09/01/2024. Motion moved by Trustee Kane; seconded by Trustee Martin. Outcome: approved.
- Approval: Financing and reimbursement resolution to authorize expenditures for Steinway pianos and related costs at the Cruz Center for the Arts (project up to $2,800,000). Moved by Trustee Kehne; seconded by Trustee Kaes. Outcome: approved.
- Approval: Authorization for Maine Center capital renovations and improvements (up to $8,500,000), funding from state capital dollars, congressional directed spending, and Maine Center reserves. Moved by Trustee Kane; seconded by Trustee Martin. Outcome: approved.
- Approval: Consent agenda (minutes and honorary degrees) as presented (Tabs 17'18). Moved by Trustee Eames; seconded by Trustee Gaines. Outcome: approved.
Ending: The meeting record shows voice votes and unanimous approvals for the listed items; no recorded roll-call tallies were provided in the public transcript.
