USM hopes to attract students with new Portland dorm
News Center Maine –
Glenn Cummings donned a hard hat and smiled as he stepped into a damp concrete skeleton of a building on a dreary November morning “Wow,” he exhaled to a gaggle of engineers as they led him, president of the University of Southern Maine, on a tour of what will be a 218,000 square foot, 588-bed residence hall and student center.