Embroiled University of Maine System maintains pioneering institutional accreditation

Embroiled University of Maine System maintains pioneering institutional accreditation

The University of Maine System will get to keep its first-in-the-nation systemwide accreditation to be a higher education institution. Five months after a team of evaluators descended on the University of Maine’s campus in Orono last October, the UMaine system’s regional accreditor — the New England Commission of Higher Education — reaffirmed its unique status as a system bound together with a single accreditation, according to a March 21 letter…