Dr. Glenn Cummings became the 13th President of the University of Southern Maine on July 1, 2015. He served as Interim President of the University of Maine at Augusta previous to coming to USM. Beginning in 2009, Dr. Cummings served President Obama as 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. He also chaired the Department’s Green Initiative, which focused on increasing the teaching and learning of sustainability principles in American education. Dr. Cummings is a former Speaker of the House in the Maine House of Representatives, Majority Leader, and Chairman of the state’s Joint Committee of Education and Cultural Affairs, where he sponsored the successful bill to create the state community college system. His academic career began in Gorham, ME as a high school history teacher and department head. He served as an administrator and faculty member within the Maine Community College System and was a long-serving member of the USM faculty, most recently as an assistant professor of Educational Leadership, teaching in the masters and doctoral degree programs. Dr. Cummings obtained his Doctorate in Higher Education Management from the University of Pennsylvania where his doctoral dissertation focused on environmental sustainability in American Higher Education. He previously earned a Masters of Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Brown University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University.

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