{"id":8138,"date":"2026-07-29T11:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/?p=8138"},"modified":"2026-07-29T11:23:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:23:03","slug":"mara-tieken-featured-in-inside-higher-education-education-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/2026\/07\/29\/mara-tieken-featured-in-inside-higher-education-education-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Mara Tieken featured in\u00a0Inside Higher Education, Education Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For an opinion piece, headlined \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/opinion\/columns\/editors-note\/2026\/05\/28\/rural-students-made-it-campus-now-what\">Rural Students Made It to Campus. Now What?<\/a>,\u201d<em> Inside Higher Education <\/em>Editor-in-Chief Sara Custer drew inspiration from Professor of Education Mara Tieken\u2019s work&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tieken advocates for colleges to rethink how they support rural students once they arrive on campuses far from their homes, not just in terms of miles, but in cultural markers. \u201cWe don\u2019t have that vocabulary for how geography matters,\u201d Tieken told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/podcasts\/key-podcast\/2026\/05\/13\/ep-198-hidden-challenges-rural-students-face-mara-tieken\">&nbsp;IHE in its podcast <em>The Key<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a June 11 <em>Education Week<\/em> story headlined \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/leadership\/closing-a-school-dont-expect-to-save-money-a-new-study-warns\/2026\/06\">Closing a School? Don\u2019t Expect to Save Money, a New Study Warns<\/a>,\u201d Tieken said, \u201cThe assumption is just so baked into the logic of closure decisions that it\u2019s assumed closures will save money, so it can be really hard for leaders to combat that thinking. This is a really important piece of evidence as districts navigate these conversations and decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For an opinion piece, headlined \u201cRural Students Made It to Campus. Now&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1827,"featured_media":8139,"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,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"_sidebarChoice":"","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":[4118],"class_list":["post-8138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-in-the-news","tag-mara-tieken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138","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\/1827"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}