Professor of Government Dan Shea was tapped to comment on the Maine Public piece titled “Political Scientists Say Maine Candidates Could Face Consequences For Skipping Debates.” As the debate season heats up, candidates need to carefully weigh their options when deciding whether or not to participate. “Generally speaking, political scientists will tell you, especially at this...
“Understanding the landscape that our students are going to be moving into, we knew that we needed to turbo-charge our efforts to ensure post-graduate success and really launch this initiative to make that happen,” Andy McGadney, vice president and dean of student advancement, said of Colby’s Pay it Northward initiative to the Concord Monitor for their story...
A June 8 Washington Post article cited research by Jim Fleming, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Science, Technology, and Society. The article, titled “New bill would prohibit the president from nuking a hurricane,” mentioned Fleming’s book “Fixing the Sky: The checkered history of weather and climate control,” and says that the idea of “nuking the...
The 17-year career of Colby Museum of Art’s Sharon Corwin, the Carolyn Muzzy Director and Chief Curator, was heralded in the Portland Press Herald article “Outgoing director elevated Colby museum into a new league.” As Corwin prepares to leave the museum at the end of June to become president and CEO of the Terra Foundation for American...
Dean Karlene Burrell-McRae ’94 wrote an op-ed that appeared in the Portland Press Herald “Maine Voices” section titled, “The question white parents don’t face – ‘Why do they hate us?’” Following the recent racist incidents in Central Park and in Minneapolis, Burrell-McRae, a mother of two wrote, “I don’t want my beautiful and intelligent children to...
Assistant Professor of Government Laura Seay was tapped to comment on a story regarding misinformation in a statement by U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Kyle McCarter regarding the death of George Floyd. In a video address, McCarter said “while no action can bring George Floyd back to his family, the officers involved have been arrested,” which...
Author and ABC News Anchorman Dan Harris ’93 appeared on NewsCenter Maine’s show 207 to talk about his career path, which began in Maine after graduating from Colby, and his 2014 book 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works. “In these...
National media continues to show significant interest in Colby’s Pay It Northward campaign and the fall semester. CNBC’s “Power Lunch” featured President Greene, who said that “always expanding and finding new ways so that our students get a great step up into the world is absolutely essential to us.” Additionally, he said the College is...
The Guardian ran a story about the new book by Associate Professor of Art Gary Green, When Midnight Comes Around. The article, “Trash, leather, sleaze: how Gary Green shot New York’s punk scene,” recounts how Green was able to capture the punk and post-punk scene in the late 1970s and early ’80s. “What sets it apart is the...
The Morning Sentinel article “Fifty years later, Colby College’s Class of 1970 recounts disruption to semester’s end” tells the story of the class that knows disappointment all too well. “During the 1969-70 academic year at Colby, tension reached an apex, culminating with a student strike in May that led to the cancellation of classes over the...
The Portland Press Herald tapped Professor of Economics Michael Donihue for a story titled “Maine’s biggest unemployment jump ever put jobless rate at nearly 11% in April.” Even if the coronavirus doesn’t come back this summer and fall, Donihue fears that Maine’s economic recovery will be slow to come. “We haven’t had a recession that started in the...
President Greene talked with Fox News’ Arthel Neville May 24 about the College’s Pay it Northward Initiative. “We’ve tapped 30,000 of our alums and friends and parents to say, ‘open up your networks, open up experiences. Do everything you can to help these incredibly deserving students,” President Greene said.
Conor Larkin ’20, an environmental policy major, wrote an opinion piece for the Morning Sentinel titled “We’re all in this attic together.” In it, he reflects on meeting Barb Bailey, a member of the Victor Grange and lead volunteer for WindowDressers in central Maine, who helps Mainers increase energy efficiency with low-cost weatherized windows. “I’ve been thinking a...
Colby’s plans to celebrate the Class of 2020 were the focus of a May 22 Morning Sentinel article. “Colby College will not hold the in-person commencement ceremony scheduled for Memorial Day weekend, but is planning a virtual celebration of the Class of 2020 on Sunday that is to include speakers, music and, likely, many memorable images and...
Colby’s Pay it Northward initiative continues to draw national attention, this time in the Wall Street Journal. “It’s really reassuring to know that they’re making sure we’re not being thrown into the wind,” graduating senior Matthew Garza told the WSJ in a story highlighting Colby’s leadership in generating postgraduate opportunities for every member of the Class of 2020.
Men’s Head Basketball Coach Damien Strahorn ’02 was listed as one of 50 impactful head coaches in D-III basketball by Silver Waves Media. “This past season, Coach Strahorn led Colby to another NESCAC championship and berth into the NCAA DIII National Tournament,” Silver Waves reported.
CNN Business spoke with President David A. Greene about Colby’s Pay it Northward initiative for the article titled “Class of 2020 entering worst job market since Great Depression.” President Greene urged other institutions to follow suit. “I think we can all do our very best to help these students, they just need a little bit...
The Washington Post ran a story titled “With dorms shut and classes online, college students DIY campus life” that includes a section on “the Boothbay Commune,” a group of 16 Colby students who chose to live in a summer cottage rental property when Colby moved to remote learning in mid-March. The students held study sessions and pulled...
Hannah Dineen of NewsCenter Maine produced a story about Colby’s Pay it Northward, talking with a Colby senior, Patrick Sopko ’20, as well as Sandy Maisel, the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government. “If somebody is in a position to help somebody not create that deficit,” Maisel said regarding the lack of jobs in the...
CNN spoke with President David Greene about the College’s potential delayed opening in a May 14 article. “I would rather open in January and go into next summer and have two full semesters worth of in-person instruction, if it were safer to do it at that time than it was earlier in the fall.”
