Professors Calling Students who have yet to re-enroll and get them to come back to campus.

Inside Higher Ed reports:

The new interim president of the University of Southern Maine has advice for faculty amid an enrollment decline: Call students who have yet to re-enroll and get them to come back to campus.

Some faculty members were already doing this, but other professors are bristling at the directive from interim President David Flanagan, a former power company CEO who has been on the job just three weeks.

Southern Maine has been through a tumultuous period of budget cuts, prospective faculty layoffs and efforts by the new and previous administrations to eliminate programs. Faculty members, programs and the budget got a slight reprieve earlier this year and state system officials adopted a plan to dip into reserve money to shore up the college’s finances, but now millions of dollars are expected to be cut from the Southern Maine budget in coming years.

Can you say higher education bubble?