{"id":21032,"date":"2002-07-03T08:30:20","date_gmt":"2002-07-03T13:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=21032"},"modified":"2024-07-01T14:52:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T18:52:54","slug":"hansen-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2002\/07\/03\/hansen-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Elaine Tuttle Hansen assumes Bates presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2002\/07\/hansen.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"146\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2002\/07\/hansen.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"Elaine Tuttle Hansen\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elaine Tuttle Hansen, former provost and professor of English at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, assumed office July 1 as the college&#8217;s seventh president since its founding in 1855.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>During a Lane Hall intervew\u00a0 her first day on the job, Hansen told Lewiston Sun Journal reporter Lisa Chmelecki: &#8220;I&#8217;ve been at liberal arts colleges forever. It&#8217;s a world I&#8217;m very familiar with. And I&#8217;ve come to appreciate places, like Bates, where every individual matters, but there is a sense of community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Bates College Board of Trustees unanimously approved Hansen&#8217;s selection at its January meeting. She succeeds Donald W. Harward, who retired June 30 after 13 years as president.<\/p>\n<p>Trustee Chair Burton M. Harris called Hansen &#8220;first and foremost an educator who throughout a distinguished career has demonstrated her deep understanding and commitment to liberal arts education and the important role it plays in our society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hansen was the unanimous choice of a 16-member search committee, which trustees organized after Harward announced his plans to retire in June 2002<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elaine Tuttle Hansen, former provost and professor of English at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, assumed office July 1 as the college&#8217;s seventh president since its founding in 1855.<\/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":[1],"tags":[8840,3005,10840],"class_list":["post-21032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batesnews","tag-bates-board-of-trustees","tag-donald-w-harward","tag-elaine-tuttle-hansen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21032","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=21032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90990,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21032\/revisions\/90990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}