{"id":6965,"date":"2025-02-26T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bco-dev.bates.edu\/faculty-expertise\/?p=6447"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:50:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:50:38","slug":"news-digest-for-february-26-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/2025\/02\/26\/news-digest-for-february-26-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"News Digest for February 26, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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WGME-13<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maine Jewish Film Festival opens this weekend, showcasing global Jewish experiences<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This interview with Maine Jewish Film Festival executive director David Andrusia includes shoutouts to the programming work of Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Stephanie Pridgeon and Director of Photography Phyllis Graber Jensen. (Two festival events will be held at Bates.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chronicle of Higher Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top Producers of Fulbright U.S. Scholars and Students, 2024-25<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(PDF compressed to show Bates featured in table of Baccalaureate institutions)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brookings Institute<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Achieving greater socioeconomic diversity at highly endowed colleges and universities<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Bates included in data pool as a college with a \u201clarge endowment\u201d but not called out within the findings.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Portland Press Herald<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her sixth novel, J. Courtney Sullivan bears witness to the lives of women<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Folded into this review of a popular novel is this reference to a fictional Bates program: \u201cDuring a summer enrichment program at Bates College, a young Jane takes a seminar called \u201cEarly Women Writers,\u201d whose subject serves almost as a mise-en-abyme for the book and inspires her career choices. Her professor \u201cspoke the names of women from as far back as the sixteenth century who wrote down their life stories when no one thought it appropriate for women to write at all. By doing so, they endured.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Higher Education Stories of Note<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chronicle of Higher Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s Next for Higher Ed Under Trump?<\/a> Chronicle experts discuss what\u2019s happened, and where things are heading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boston Globe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pell Grant started in Rhode Island 50 years ago. Will it outlive the US Department of Education?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chronicle of Higher Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NIH Funding Cuts Could Have Ripple Effects on College-Town Economies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Los Angeles Times<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Chinese students still want to attend U.S. universities<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inside Higher Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NSF\u2019s Higher Ed Research \u2018Hit List\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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