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The University of Southern Maine has called off a one-credit "pop-up course" that was to involve taking a bus to Washington this week to participate in protests to urge the Senate to reject President Trump's nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. Reports about the course circulated on social media as those offended by the idea forwarded screenshots to various conservative publications.
The university's president, Glenn Cummings, issued this statement on the course: "This pop-up course was hastily arranged in the past 24 hours, without the knowledge of the provost or myself. It was not appropriately reviewed nor went through proper channels. As soon as the provost and I were apprised of the course, we immediately pulled the one-credit offering. We also made sure that no USM monies were being used for the trip. University policy makes it absolutely clear that our public, taxpayer-funded institutions must be nonpartisan in terms of political activity and institutionally impartial in all political, religious and social matters that are unrelated to our universities' core mission of education, research, and public service."
