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.”
Vice President of Student Advancement Andy McGadney was interviewed on Cheddar—a live post-cable network and the number one publisher of business news on Facebook—about Colby’s Pay It Northward initiative. The full interview is available here.
Trustee Bob Diamond ’73, P’12 spoke with CNBC news about the possibility of Colby delaying the start of school in order to ensure students have a full academic year on campus. “One of the things that we’ve decided as a leadership of the college, and as of a board of trustees, that even if we...
In an editorial posted on the Mass Live website, Pay it Northward, Colby’s new initiative to find postgraduate opportunities for its graduating seniors, is praised for its innovative, compassionate approach. “As many graduates struggle with the weight of college tuition, and student debt … aggressive assistance in job placement can make a huge difference, not...
An article by Daisy Desrosiers, director of artist programs at the Lunder Institute for American Art, originally published in the Brooklyn Rail was republished on the website Repeating Islands. The article is titled “Made of linguistic forms and failures: Inquiry in times of isolation.”
Colby’s Pay it Forward campaign, launched May 7, is receiving wide media coverage. Among the outlets making note of this powerful, innovate initiative include: WMTW TV-8 University Business Maine Public
In its article titled “What Colleges And Graduating Seniors Need To Do To Find Jobs During These Tough COVID-19 Times,” Forbes holds up Colby’s new Pay It Northward campaign as an initiative others should emulate. “At this time, every university and college should follow Colby’s lead. There should be an immediate all-hands-on-deck approach to helping graduates find...
A story about physician assistant Nathaniel “Than” Moore ’12 ran in the New York Times (via Reuters) May 6 highlighting his “Gowns 4 Good” initiative, which asks graduates to donate their gowns to front-line responders. “The image of my colleagues on the front line and at other medical facilities that lack the appropriate PPE and wearing trash bags...
