{"id":15291,"date":"2009-11-11T14:40:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T19:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=15291"},"modified":"2016-01-14T13:33:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T18:33:02","slug":"president-hansen-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/11\/11\/president-hansen-media\/","title":{"rendered":"President Hansen guest at media roundtable on higher education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/11\/hansen_03.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"255\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/11\/hansen_03-400x255.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"President Hansen at NYC higher ed media dinner\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nine college and university presidents including Bates President Elaine Tuttle Hansen were invited to join about two dozen members of national news media recently in a dialogue on higher education.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 22nd Annual Higher Education Media Roundtable was hosted by Arizona State University President Michael Crow at the Harvard Club in New York City on Nov. 4, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>National media outlets included National Public Radio, NBC, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Nature, Time, Newsweek, Kaplan\/Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, University Business, The New York Review of Books, Bloomberg News, and Inside Higher Ed.<\/p>\n<p>College and university presidents and chancellors participating where Alice P. Gast of Lehigh University; David W. Leebron of Rice University; Harris Pastides of the University of South Carolina; Freeman A. Hrabowski III of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; John J. Neuhauser of Saint Michael\u2019s College; Kent Hance of  the Texas Tech University System; Robert C. Holub of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and presidents Crow and Hansen. Communications officers from each of the institutions also attended the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Discussion topics were broad-ranging and included: assessment, access, K-12 teacher education,<br \/>\nthe impact of economic forces on higher education, three-year baccalaureate programs, tenure, swine flu, President Obama\u2019s education policy, and the increasing academic and socio-economic stratification of higher education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine college and university presidents including Bates President Elaine Tuttle Hansen were invited to join about two dozen members of national news media recently in a dialogue on higher education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[4,6,234],"tags":[10840,4167,8711],"class_list":["post-15291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-maine-world","category-teaching-education","tag-elaine-tuttle-hansen","tag-higher-education","tag-three-year-degree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88329,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15291\/revisions\/88329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}