{"id":3524,"date":"2007-11-26T13:19:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T17:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=3524"},"modified":"2024-07-03T14:36:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T18:36:15","slug":"forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2007\/11\/26\/forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Panelists discuss &#039;Poverty and the Two Maines&#039; in Harward Center forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Harward Center for Community Partnerships at Bates College kicks off its &#8220;Civic Forum on Reimagining Maine in the 21st Century&#8221; at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave., with a panel titled &#8220;Poverty and the Two Maines.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Four panelists will share their perspectives and discuss means of addressing the problem of poverty in the state. Panelists include Hannah Pingree, House majority leader, Maine Legislature; Sarah Standiford, Bates class of 1997 and executive director, Maine Women\u2019s Lobby; Naomi Schalit, opinion page editor, Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel; and Eric Smith, Congregational outreach coordinator, Maine Council of Churches.<\/p>\n<p>The Harward Center&#8217;s civic forum series explores civic, political and policy issues of significance to the Bates community, Maine and beyond.  Additional panels this academic year include &#8220;Reimagining Globalism: Maine in the World\u2019s Economy&#8221; on Jan. 16, 2008, and &#8220;Re-Imagining the North Woods: The Changing Environment of Maine&#8221; on Feb. 27.<\/p>\n<p>All of these events are free and open to the public. Please contact the Harward Center for Community Partnerships at Bates College at 207-786-6202 for more information.<\/p>\n<p>The Harward Center leads Bates&#8217; efforts in community involvement, including programs in service-learning, community volunteerism and environmental stewardship. The center works with community partners to meet community needs and, in the process, to integrate civic engagement with the Bates educational experience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Harward Center for Community Partnerships at Bates College kicks off its &#8220;Civic Forum on Reimagining Maine in the 21st Century&#8221; at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave., with a panel titled &#8220;Poverty and the Two Maines.&#8221;<\/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":[30,130,175,32,195,17,220,224,11009],"tags":[2281,4087,5537,6164],"class_list":["post-3524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civic-engagement","category-collaboration","category-justice-poverty","category-maine-and-new-england","category-news-politics","category-partners-public","category-service","category-society-culture","category-the-college","tag-civic-forum","tag-harward-center-for-community-partnerships","tag-maine-legislature","tag-muskie-archives-and-special-collections-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524","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=3524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93099,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524\/revisions\/93099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}