BANGOR (AP) — University of Maine System trustees are voting on a new president for the University of Southern Maine.
Trustees are voting at a meeting today in Bangor.
Chancellor James Page is recommending that trustees approve the appointment of Theodora Kalikow to head USM. Kalikow stepped down last month from the University of Maine at Farmington, where she was president for 18 years.
Page is also recommending that trustees appoint Selma Botman, the USM president the past four years, as special assistant to the chancellor on global education, in charge of international programs and students at the system’s universities.
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