{"id":118450,"date":"2018-09-14T09:39:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T13:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=118450"},"modified":"2024-07-08T13:46:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T17:46:17","slug":"bates-in-the-news-sept-14-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2018\/09\/14\/bates-in-the-news-sept-14-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates in the News: Sept. 14, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Purposeful Work<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
How colleges help students find purpose in their work \u2014 The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/i><\/h5>\n

In a major feature story, <\/span>The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/span><\/i><\/a> explores the value of the college’s<\/span> <\/i>signature Purposeful Work initiative. <\/span><\/p>\n

Now beginning its fifth year of implementation, Purposeful Work helps students “clarify the connections between classroom and career, and to prepare students for lives of meaningful work,” writes Kelly Field of the Chronicle<\/em>,<\/i> the leading source of academic news in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Purposeful Work stands apart, says Field, for how it “blends the philosophical and the pragmatic.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Purposeful Work is particularly valuable because it helps to “increase graduates\u2019 confidence that they can succeed in an increasingly technical work force, and to dispel parents\u2019 and policy makers\u2019 doubts about the returns on an expensive liberal-arts degree.”<\/p>\n

While many colleges are launching similar programs, Purposeful Work stands apart, says Field, for how it “blends the philosophical and the pragmatic, offering students both concrete skills and an overarching theory of work: namely, that it ought to have both personal meaning and societal relevance.”<\/p>\n

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Purposeful Work interns in summer 2018, Isabella Del Priore ’19 and Emily Lufburrow ’19 pose outside the Sidney Kimmel Center for Prostate and Urologic Cancers at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York City. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

Andrew Knowlton \u201997<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
Portland, Maine, is the 2018 Restaurant City of the Year \u2014 Bon Appetit<\/i><\/h5>\n

Andrew Knowlton \u201997, <\/span>Bon Appetit\u2019<\/span><\/i>s longtime restaurant editor and now editor at large, <\/span>named Portland the 2018 Restaurant City of the Year<\/span><\/a>, citing the city\u2019s many new openings and the variety of offerings, from \u201can Instagram-worthy lobster roll and a dozen local oysters\u201d to \u201cthe killer pho spot or the guy selling hand rolls out of a Yeti cooler.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowlton brings some subjectivity to the selection. \u201cI\u2019ve got a thing for Maine,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI went to college there, I got married there, I regularly vacation there.\u201d But Portland was not picked just out of \u201cblind favoritism,\u201d he explains, offering a long list of restaurants as evidence. <\/span><\/p>\n

Among the spots mentioned are <\/span>Hugo\u2019s<\/span>, one of three eateries co-owned by award-winning chef<\/a><\/span> Andrew Taylor \u201903, and <\/span>Allagash Brewing Company<\/span>, whose brewmaster is Knowlton\u2019s classmate <\/span>Jason Perkins.
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Mia Lidofsky \u201909<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
\u2018Strangers\u2019 creator Mia Lidofsky breaks the mold with queer female narrative \u2014 Huffington Post<\/i><\/h5>\n

As the second season of <\/span>Strangers<\/span><\/i> wrapped, director and producer Mia Lidofsky \u201909 talked to <\/span>Curtis M. Wong of the <\/span>Huffington Post<\/span><\/i><\/a> about how her own life has inspired the Facebook Watch show and the importance of narratives created by and featuring queer people. <\/span><\/p>\n

Strangers <\/span><\/i>follows a bisexual woman and her lesbian best friend, a \u201cself-discovery tale against the backdrop of Airbnb,\u201d Wong wrote. <\/span><\/p>\n

Lidofsky, who worked on the shows <\/span>Girls <\/span><\/i>and <\/span>Nurse Jackie <\/span><\/i>as an assistant to director Jesse Peretz, told Wong she wanted to make women feel \u201cfeel more seen, more heard and less alone.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to show queer women in a positive light, and show their hilarity, their beauty and their charisma,\u201d she said. \u201cThe more depictions of queer people onscreen by queer people, the better.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Matt Golden \u201920<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
How Matt Golden started a lunchtime mentorship program in Maine that is reaching New Bedford \u2014 SouthCoastToday<\/i><\/h5>\n

Brendan Kurie of the New Bedford <\/span>Standard-Times <\/span><\/i>profiled<\/span> Matt Golden \u201920, who started a program called Aspiration Lunches<\/a> at Lewiston Middle School. <\/span><\/p>\n

A sociology major and football player, Golden and fellow Bates students make regular visits to LMS, where they hang out with students and, importantly, give them a chance to see what it’s like to be a college student.
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Matt Golden ’20 of New Bedford, Mass., carries the ball during a 2016 game against Hamilton College. (Josh Kuckens\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cStudents talking to other students is a big thing,\u201d Lewiston Middle School administrator Billie Jo Brito told Kurie. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so hard for middle school students, many times, to get out of their own way. To be encouraged by a college student and hear about their middle school days and have that fresh face is such a positive thing for them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Golden got support from the college’s Harward Center for Community Partnerships, but “this was his initiative,\u201d said Martha Deschaines \u201975 of the Harward Center. \u201cHe\u2019s so enthusiastic and dedicated to this program and helping youth to move forward.”<\/p>\n

Clayton Spencer<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
Women to Watch: Clayton Spencer, Bates College \u2014 Mainebiz<\/i><\/h5>\n

Mainebiz <\/span><\/i>named Bates President Clayton Spencer one of four \u201cWomen to Watch<\/a>\u201d in 2018. In a profile, editor Peter Van Allen outlined Spencer\u2019s path from law to higher education, her leadership of the $300 million <\/span>Bates Campaign<\/span><\/a>, and her drive to prepare students for meaningful careers through the Purposeful Work initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bates President Clayton Spencer speaks during Convocation on Sept. 4. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cMost students realize they’re not da Vinci or Yo-Yo Ma,\u201d Spencer said. \u201cThey worry they don’t have a passion. But finding your passion is a trap. You have to try things.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWork can be for pay or not,\u201d she added. \u201cBut it has to be purposeful work.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Sameer Maskey \u201902<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
Here\u2019s why we need to democratize artificial intelligence \u2014 Forbes <\/i><\/h5>\n

In an <\/span>essay published in <\/span>Forbes<\/span><\/i><\/a>,<\/span><\/i> Sameer Maskey \u201902 says the world needs a lot more artificial intelligence professionals than it currently has.<\/span><\/p>\n

The founder and CEO of Fusemachines, a Manhattan-based AI services and education firm, Maskey argues that students from developing countries should fill the gap \u2014 they\u2019re as curious and qualified as Ivy League grads, and \u201csomeone who experiences complex problems in his\/her own country could be more suited to try and solve those problems with AI.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kristyma Alexova \u201919 and Sameer Maskey \u201902 speaks with Kristyna Alexova \u201919 during Alexova’s Purposeful Work internship at Fusemachines, Maskey’s AI company. (Nick Romanenko for Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

Maskey, a member of the Forbes Technology Council, which comprises world-class CIOs, CTOs, and technology executives, recently started a fellowship program to teach machine learning to students in the Dominican Republic, New York City, Rwanda, and Maskey\u2019s native Nepal. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf we want everyone to benefit from the development of AI, and not just a few select countries, we need to make AI equally accessible around the world,\u201d Maskey says. <\/span><\/p>\n

David Bowie \u201969<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
David Bowie welcomes Lewiston High students back for the 51st time \u2014 Sun Journal <\/i><\/h5>\n

Bonnie Washuk of the Lewiston Sun Journal profiled David Bowie \u201969<\/a>, who has been teaching Lewiston High School students and coaching fellow teachers for 51 years.<\/p>\n

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David Bowie poses in the hall by the door of his office at Lewiston High School, where he has taught for 51 years. (Russ Dillingham\/Sun Journal)<\/p><\/div>\n

Bowie has witnessed dramatic changes over his five decades in the classroom. Standardized testing became more important, technology progressed \u2014 Bowie was one of the first to learn to use computers \u2014 and the student population became far more diverse. <\/span><\/p>\n

Now some of his former students are teachers at the high school, and he sees people he taught at LHS in town. \u201cI usually run into somebody I had in a class, which makes it kind of fun,\u201d Bowie told Washuk. <\/span><\/p>\n

Dominick Pangallo \u201903<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
McCain’s straight talk impressed those on the North Shore \u2014 The Salem News <\/i><\/h5>\n

Ethan Forman of <\/span>The Salem News <\/span><\/i>quoted Dominick Pangallo \u201903<\/a> on the Aug. 25 death of U.S. Senator John McCain. <\/span><\/p>\n

Pangallo, now chief of staff for the mayor of Salem, was a Bates student in 2000 when he worked in New Hampshire for McCain\u2019s first presidential campaign. He wrote that though McCain was the only Republican he ever voted for, he admired the senator\u2019s stance on campaign finance reform, as well as his relationship with the press and, later, his position on climate change and his vote against the repeal of Obamacare. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTonight, I\u2019m remembering those cold and snowy nights across countless small Granite State towns, running lawn signs, holding the rope line, setting up stages, handing out palm cards,\u201d Pangallo wrote of working on the campaign. \u201cThe thrill of being in the vanguard of the Straight Talk Express.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Mara Tieken<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
The comeback kids: how a struggling public school made the grade \u2014 The Guardian <\/i><\/h5>\n

Amanda Holpuch of <\/span>The Guardian <\/span><\/i>turned to<\/span><\/a> Associate Professor of Education Mara Tieken for a<\/span> story about<\/span> the school district in Pike County, Ala., which has many students from poor rural backgrounds. <\/span><\/p>\n

The district closely watches and tries to support its students, and offers programs that allow students to earn college credits and even associate\u2019s degrees in a variety of fields.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Associate Professor of Education Mara Tieken teaches \u201cCommunity Organizing for Social Justice\u201d in May 2018. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

Tieken praised that dual enrollment program, but offered this caution:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I worry about is rural kids, particularly rural students of color, being disproportionately tracked into associate\u2019s degrees, so then they are not able to continue on with education, which we know corresponds with higher earnings and all kinds of other benefits.”
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Katharine Ott<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
GirlsGetMath engages local high school students \u2014 The Brown Daily Herald <\/i><\/h5>\n

Brown University\u2019s student <\/span>newspaper covered\u00a0a weeklong summer program<\/a> at the university, directed by Associate Professor of Mathematics Katharine Ott, that teaches high school girls about math and computer science.<\/p>\n

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Associate Professor of Mathematics Katharine Ott. (Sarah Crosby\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

Ott told reporter Cate Ryan that the program seeks to encourage girls to stay engaged with math and science in high school and college and, ultimately, pursue careers in STEM fields.
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\u201cThere is clear evidence that even though jobs in STEM are growing very rapidly and they pay better than a lot of other jobs, women are very underrepresented in these careers,\u201d Ott said. <\/span><\/p>\n

The program, GirlsGetMath@ICERM, was hosted by Brown’s <\/span>Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics.<\/p>\n

Anita Charles <\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
French schools say \u2018au revoir\u2019 to smartphones \u2014 what if the U.S. dialed up a similar ban? \u2014 KPCC-FM<\/h5>\n

Schools in France instituted a ban this year on cellphones on school grounds. Larry Mantle of Pasadena-based public radio station KPCC <\/span>explored<\/span><\/a> how such a policy might translate in the United States, talking with Bates\u2019 Anita Charles and the University of Michigan\u2019s Liz Kolb about the effectiveness of cellphone bans.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Anita Charles teaches \u201cBasic Concepts in Special Education\u201d in March 2018. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

Charles, lecturer in education and director of secondary teacher education, told Mantle and several callers that outright bans on cellphones are \u201cseldom effective, it\u2019s unenforceable, and it begs for subversion.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Whether schools and teachers allow cellphones in the classroom or require students to put their phones in a cubby, they have to develop relationships of trust, Charles said. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe tend to miss the boat if we\u2019re only about the policy,\u201d she said. \u201cWe have to also have the conversations. We have to talk to students about why and how and what are we trying to help them do when they put them in that cubby, and what we hope they\u2019ll learn to understand about appropriate contexts.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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