*05/20/16 Glenn Cummings, USM President

Posted by Bob Martin

Glenn Cummings is the 13th President of the University of Southern Maine. A native Mainer, Glenn represented Portland in the Maine House of Representatives for eight years, eventually being elected as Majority Leader, and then Speaker of the House. He also served in President Obama’s administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary for the U.S. Department of Education, where he focused on efforts to improve adult education and literacy, career and technical education, and community colleges.

Glenn is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, earned a Master Degree in Teaching from Brown University, a Master in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and earned his Doctorate in Higher Education Management from the University of Pennsylvania.

Glenn will share the progress USM is making with its financial challenges, and its efforts to evolve into a Metropolitan University.