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The University of Maine system Board of Trustees voted unanimously at its July 11 meeting to extend Chancellor Dannel Malloy’s contract by one year.
The move was by no means assured; in recent months, faculty at three of the system’s seven campuses voted no confidence in Malloy’s leadership after he was found to have withheld damning information about a candidate for president at the University of Maine at Augusta, which led to a failed search. Faculty at the other four campuses issued letters supporting the no-confidence votes.
Board chair Trish Riley said the board had carefully considered such concerns in making its decision, the Portland Press Herald reported.
“We see an urgency to rebuild trust,” Riley said in a statement from the board. “We weighed those concerns with the urgency to act if the UMaine System can overcome its challenges and continue its progress to adapt and rapidly change to realities.”
As part of the contract extension, Malloy agreed to forgo a bonus for this year and to accept only a cost-of-living raise for 2023, according to the Maine Wire.
Malloy’s contract, which began in 2019, was set to expire at the end of June, but the board broke protocol to give him a short-term extension until it could take up the issue at yesterday’s meeting.
Malloy said he was “humbled” by the vote and by his own mistakes in the UMA presidential search.
“I will pledge to all of you to work with all of you to make sure our communications are clear,” he said, according to Maine Wire.
