The University of Southern Maine (USM) welcomes and encourages you to engage with us on social media. We monitor our official University of Southern Maine Facebook and Instagram platforms regularly in order to answer any questions or correct factually inaccurate statements.

We promote healthy and respectful dialogue, including disagreements, but not personal attacks or language that can be considered offensive, vile, or threatening to a person or group of people.

Anyone interacting with our official university Social Media channels is required to follow this policy.

The University of Southern Maine will not tolerate content that infringes on proprietary information, or that is defamatory, obscene, harassing, or that otherwise violates state or federal law or University of Maine System policy. Those violating this policy may be brought to the appropriate governing body for disciplinary or legal action.

To the best of our abilities, we will review all comments to our official social media channels and will remove any that are repetitive or duplicate posts (in a single thread or across different threads); potential personal attacks or offensive language; illegal suggestions; advertisements, SPAM, or other solicitation; or violate state or federal law or university policy. We will also remove any user content we become aware of or are notified of that violates the social media platforms’ Terms of Use.

Individuals who do not follow our social media compliance policy may be banned from our social media platforms.

Comments posted by followers do not represent the opinions of the University of Southern Maine.

Official University social media channels

Additional social media policies

We do not post advertisements, promotional material, or information for non-university events.

Commercial or financial solicitations are not allowed on any University-affiliated account, with the exception of our sponsored fundraising purposes.