Shameful USM situation shows why higher education is suffering

Shameful USM situation shows why higher education is suffering

The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set newsroom policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com.When it came time to make a decision about where to go to college, I gave myself a lot of options including the Rochester Institute of Technology, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of New Hampshire and Texas A&M. Being a kid from Maine, I natural…