{"id":6967,"date":"2025-01-19T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bco-dev.bates.edu\/faculty-expertise\/?p=6449"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:50:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:50:40","slug":"news-digest-for-january-29-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/2025\/01\/19\/news-digest-for-january-29-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"News Digest for January 29, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Coverage of our QuestBridge announcement included this&nbsp;<strong>Lewiston Sun Journal<\/strong>&nbsp;story&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunjournal.com\/2025\/01\/24\/bates-joins-national-group-to-help-low-income-students-attend-elite-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bates College joins national group to help low-income students attend elite schools<\/a>&nbsp;which also ran in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2025\/01\/24\/bates-joins-national-group-to-help-low-income-students-attend-elite-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Press Herald<\/a>.&nbsp;Locally,&nbsp;<strong>NewsCenter Maine<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscentermaine.com\/video\/news\/bates-nonprofit-6pm\/97-acd81193-ceef-474f-99f0-060db19ad5ad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aired a piece<\/a>&nbsp;about the partnership and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mainebiz.biz\/article\/bates-college-joins-national-effort-to-boost-access-for-low-income-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maine Biz<\/a>&nbsp;also covered.&nbsp;<strong>The Harvard Crimson<\/strong>&nbsp;mentioned Bates in its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2025\/1\/24\/harvard-joins-questbridge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">coverage<\/a>&nbsp;and distribution of our&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20250123071070\/en\/Bates-College-Teams-with-QuestBridge-to-Enhance-Access-for-Low-income-Students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Business Wire<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;story was picked up by outlets inclluding the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/business.inyoregister.com\/inyoregister\/article\/bizwire-2025-1-23-bates-college-teams-with-questbridge-to-enhance-access-for-low-income-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Inyo Register<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bakersfield.com\/ap\/news\/bates-college-teams-with-questbridge-to-enhance-access-for-low-income-students\/article_c9612c9f-7d94-5591-9a7b-b502fee22fb9.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bakersfield Californian<\/a>&nbsp;and likely via the Crimson\u2019s story, reached as far as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/education\/news\/harvard-becomes-the-last-ivy-league-to-join-the-questbridge-national-college-match-program-what-is-this-scholarship\/articleshow\/117635023.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Times of India<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Higher Education Stories of Note<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New York Times<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/28\/us\/schools-panic-trump-federal-pause.html?searchResultPosition=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Uncertainty Causes Chaos as Trump Threatens Funding Pause for Schools<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Inside Higher Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/government\/politics-elections\/2025\/01\/28\/trumps-federal-funding-freeze-concerns-colleges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Higher Ed Alarmed by Trump\u2019s Plan to Freeze Federal Grants<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chronicle of Higher Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/hate-endowment-taxes-reform-the-university\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hate Endowment Taxes? Reform the University: History shows there is nothing sacred about these big pots of money<\/a>&nbsp; (Essay)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chronicle of Higher Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/the-classroom-is-not-your-living-room\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Classroom is Not Your Living Room: The vogue for \u201cbelonging\u201d misses the point of education<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chronicle of Higher Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/what-some-colleges-say-theyll-do-if-immigration-authorities-come-to-campus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What Some Colleges Say They\u2019ll Do if Immigration Authorities Come to Campus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wall Street Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/how-dei-conquered-the-university-of-colorado-boulder-discrimination-hiring-professors-0c306a9e?page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How DEI Conquered the University of Colorado (Commentary)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New York Times<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/24\/opinion\/trump-dei-education-harvard.html?searchResultPosition=9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump\u2019s Plan to Crush the Academic Left<\/a>&nbsp;(Opinion)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coverage of our QuestBridge announcement included this&nbsp;Lewiston Sun Journal&nbsp;story&nbsp;Bates College joins national&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7018,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967\/revisions\/7018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}