The Boston Globe: Maine college president announces resignation a year into the job
Less than a year after taking the job, the president of the University of Maine at Presque Isle said Thursday that he is resigning effective Aug. 31.
The announcement by Karl Burgher comes about two months after faculty members at the school asked for his removal following a vote of no-confidence.
Burgher made no mention of the vote in a prepared statement, saying instead that a “great deal” had been accomplished in his year on the job.
“It is time to step away and allow another to carry the university forward,” Burgher said. “My family is moving back to the Missouri Ozarks to be with friends and church. I will engage with several consulting responsibilities in the near term while deciding on longer term commitments and plans.”
Burgher became UMPI president last July after being selected from among 48 candidates. He previously worked at Fairmont State University in West Virginia.
The college’s Faculty Assembly in May wrote a three-page letter to Joseph Westphal, who was then chancellor of the University of Maine System, saying Burgher had lost respect within the university and Presque Isle communities.
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