Good Will-Hinckley's president takes job at UMaine Augusta
Glenn Cummings, president and executive director of Good Will-Hinckley and the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences since 2010, will be leaving that job to become interim president at the University of Maine at Augusta.
Cummings, 53, will replace Allyson Handley, who announced in August that she would be leaving her position as president to become executive director of the Sanford Education Center at National University in San Diego, Calif. She is one of four presidents in the University of Maine system who have stepped down in recent months.
The Waterville Sentinel reported today that senior administrators at Good Will-Hinckley will take over until a replacement for Cummings is found.
“Glenn has done a great deal to put us in a position to move forward,” Deborah Staber, curator of the L.C. Bates Museum at Good Will-Hinckley, told the newspaper. “I feel confident that it’s the organization and not a specific person that makes this place run. I think the institution and board is strong, and they will follow through and keep it going in the right direction.”
Prior to accepting the job at Good Will-Hinckley, Cummings, a former House Speaker and Majority Leader in the Legislature, had served in the Obama administration as a deputy assistant secretary within the U.S. Department of Education. He was part of a team that designed President Obama’s plan to boost America’s graduation rate by 2020 and also chaired the department’s “Green Initiative,” which focused on increasing the teaching and learning of sustainability principles in American education.
During his tenure, Good Will-Hinckley used a $10.5 million philanthropic contribution from the Harold Alfond Foundation to create the first charter school in Maine history, the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences. The statewide, residential school focuses on environmental education, agriculture and forestry.
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