{"id":7593,"date":"2025-09-25T14:42:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/?p=7593"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:50:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:50:35","slug":"mara-tieken-on-maine-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/2025\/09\/25\/mara-tieken-on-maine-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Mara Tieken on Maine Public"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In late June, Professor of Education Mara Tieken was a panelist on an episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mainepublic.org\/show\/maine-calling\/2025-06-25\/rural-students-options-goals\"><strong>Maine Calling<\/strong><\/a>, <em>Maine Public\u2019s<\/em> weekday call-in show, focused on rural students. The episode examined the \u201coptions and goals\u201d for rural students in higher education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tieken studies rural education and students; her book <em>Educated Out: How Rural Students Navigate Elite Colleges\u2014And What It Costs Them,<\/em> published by the University of Chicago Press and released in May, is a study exploring the ways that geography impacts the experiences of first-generation students from rural communities \u2014 from access to higher education, experiences during college, and postgraduation opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August, Tieken, who received the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2025\/01\/24\/a-teacher-teaching-teachers-associate-professor-of-education-mara-tieken-receives-this-years-kroepsch-award-for-excellence-in-teaching\/\">2024 Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching<\/a>, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gse.harvard.edu\/ideas\/ed-magazine\/25\/08\/rural-students-college-educated-out\">also featured in <em>Ed. Magazine<\/em><\/a>, the publication of Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she received both her master\u2019s in education and her doctorate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late June, Professor of Education Mara Tieken was a panelist on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1283,"featured_media":7145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":["mara-c-tieken"],"_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":[4115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593","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\/1283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7596,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593\/revisions\/7596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}