{"id":2483,"date":"2009-02-25T12:17:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T17:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2017-02-23T13:28:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:28:37","slug":"bryan-mcnulty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/02\/25\/bryan-mcnulty\/","title":{"rendered":"Recession special gives college degree in three years, not four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan McNulty, director of Communications and Media Relations at Bates, was quoted in a Bloomberg.com story about colleges offering new, three-year programs to students looking to save money. Reporter Janet Frankston Lorin wrote that &#8220;while Bates College has offered an option for a three-year degree since the 1960s, only one or two students graduate from the program each year.&#8221; The reason, said spokesman McNulty, is that most students want the four-year experience, including about 70 percent who study abroad for a year or semester. At Bates, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x65011.xml\">debut of the three-year option in the &#8217;60s<\/a> gave rise to the College&#8217;s popular spring Short Term. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=washingtonstory&amp;sid=a5YRih.ifiKc\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the Bloomberg.com story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=washingtonstory&amp;sid=a5YRih.ifiKc\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan McNulty, director of Communications and Media Relations at Bates, was quoted in a Bloomberg.com story about colleges offering new, three-year programs to students looking to save money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[234,11009],"tags":[11051,7364,10845],"class_list":["post-2483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-education","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-recession","tag-short-term"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483","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=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93167,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions\/93167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}