Michael R. Laliberte's potential $615,000 paycheck over three years is not sitting well with certain faculty members, some of whom were laid off recently for budgetary reasons.
Michael R. Laliberte, whose hiring was criticized after votes of no confidence at his former university came to light, to be paid salary of $205,000 in what would have been his first year.
On Sunday, the system announced that after discussions with Michael Laliberte, it was determined that it was "in the best interest of all parties" for him to voluntarily resign.
The man who had been named the next president of the University of Maine at Augusta will not take office. Michael Laliberte’s candidacy has been controversial with faculty members because of a no-confidence vote against him in his previous job as president of the State University of New York at Delhi. The Faculty Senate at Augusta this month issued a no-confidence vote against