{"id":67102,"date":"2011-12-16T15:07:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T20:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=67102"},"modified":"2016-01-14T13:43:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T18:43:55","slug":"presidential-announcement-news-and-social-media-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/12\/16\/presidential-announcement-news-and-social-media-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Announcement: News and social media coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a summary of coverage of the election of Clayton Spencer by news media, social media and the Bates website.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_361\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/files\/2011\/12\/web_111204_Announce_Pres_1449.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-361\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-361\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/files\/2011\/12\/web_111204_Announce_Pres_1449-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bates Trustee Chair Mike Bonney &#8217;80, at left, shares a laugh with President-elect Clayton Spencer during her introduction to the campus on Dec. 4.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>News Media<\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>The<\/em> <em>New York Times<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/05\/education\/clayton-spencer-harvard-vice-president-to-lead-bates-college.html?_r=1\"> Clayton Spencer, Harvard vice president, to lead Bates College<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Lewiston<em> Sun Journal<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunjournal.com\/news\/city\/2011\/12\/05\/new-president-brings-big-vision-bates-college\/1124076\"> New president brings big vision to Bates College | Sun Journal<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Associated Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2011\/12\/04\/maine_college_has_new_president\/\">Maine college has new president<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">The AP story was also picked up by Maine Public Broadcasting Network (MPBN); WLBZ-TV Channel 2 (NBC-Bangor); WCSH-TV Channel 6 (NBC-Portland); WMTW-TV Channel 8 (ABC-Portland)<em>, the Bangor Daily News, Kennebec Journal<\/em><em>, Mainebiz<\/em><em>, Morning Sentinel<\/em> and<em> Portland Press Herald. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Harvard Crimson<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2011\/12\/5\/Bates-President-Spencer\/\">VP Spencer named president of Bates College<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Harvard Magazine<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/harvardmagazine.com\/2011\/12\/harvard-vice-president-spencer-named-bates-president\"> A. Clayton Spencer appointed President of Bates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/innovations\/college-equity-the-best-and-worst-in-2011\/31187\">Key policy adviser at Harvard will be Bates College&#8217;s next president<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/innovations\/college-equity-the-best-and-worst-in-2011\/31187\">Appointment of Spencer named a &#8220;best&#8221; moment of 2011<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Inside Higher Education<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/quicktakes\/2011\/12\/05\/higher-ed-policy-expert-named-bates-president\"> Higher ed policy expert named Bates president<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Nora Talks Bates <\/strong><\/em><strong>(blog)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/noratalksbates.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/05\/the-new-president-elect\/\">The new President-elect<br \/>\n<\/a>Nora Brouder &#8217;12 explains that Spencer was &#8220;just another mom in the parental sphere of my younger life.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Social Media<\/h2>\n<h3>Facebook<\/h3>\n<p>Below, a few of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/batescollege\">Bates Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Bates.College.Alumni\">Alumni Facebook<\/a> comments about the election of Clayton Spencer as the eighth president of Bates College:<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"4\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/files\/2011\/12\/FB-alumniScreen-shot-facebook-spencer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-496\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/files\/2011\/12\/FB-alumniScreen-shot-facebook-spencer-288x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/files\/2011\/12\/FB-Bates-Screen-shot-facebook-spencer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-497\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/files\/2011\/12\/FB-Bates-Screen-shot-facebook-spencer-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Twitter<\/h3>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sample of Twitter comments:<\/p>\n<p><em>From a Bates student:<\/em> Clayton Spencer, new #batesprez, has quite the resume. Honored to welcome our newest Batesie!<\/p>\n<p><em>From Williams College:<\/em> Congrats to our own A. Clayton Spencer &#8217;77, who leaves @<strong>Harvard<\/strong> to become 8th president of @<strong>Bates<\/strong> in July.<\/p>\n<p><em>From a higher education observer in St. Louis:<\/em> &#8220;To my mind,&#8221; the occasional twang in these videos of Clayton Spencer, new #batesprez, is a nice touch.<\/p>\n<p><em>From a Bates Alumnus<\/em>: &#8220;Bates College has new president\u00a0via @BostonDotCom.<\/p>\n<p><em>From a Bates alumna:<\/em> &#8220;We can no longer, in our society, equate wealth with excellence in higher education.&#8221; A soundbite from #BatesPrez.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Webcast and Website<\/h2>\n<p>During the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/webcast\/\">webcast of the presidential announcement<\/a><\/strong>, Carine Warsawski &#8217;07 posted a status update on Facebook: &#8220;Watching live from a Starbucks in D.C. Way to go with the technology, Bates!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Clayton Spencer\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/33170779?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Co-produced by Bates Communications and Information and Library Services, the announcement webcast attracted 1,098 unique viewers in 17 countries. People watched on various devices and operating systems (Android, BlackBerry, iOs), including 129 iPads.<\/p>\n<p>The day of the announcement, Dec. 4, drew approximately 40 percent more visitors than usual to the Bates website (16,880 vs. an average daily total of 12,000).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Viewers watched the webcast from 41 states:<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 388px\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"50\">Alaska<br \/>\nArizona<br \/>\nArkansas<br \/>\nCalifornia<br \/>\nColorado<br \/>\nConnecticut<br \/>\nDelaware<br \/>\nD.C.<br \/>\nFlorida<br \/>\nGeorgia<br \/>\nIllinois<br \/>\nIndiana<br \/>\nIowa<br \/>\nLouisiana<br \/>\nMaine<br \/>\nMaryland<br \/>\nMassachusetts<br \/>\nMichigan<br \/>\nMinnesota<br \/>\nMissouri<br \/>\nMontana<br \/>\nNebraska<br \/>\nNevada<br \/>\nNew Hampshire<br \/>\nNew Jersey<br \/>\nNew Mexico<br \/>\nNew York<br \/>\nNorth Carolina<br \/>\nOhio<br \/>\nOregon<br \/>\nPennsylvania<br \/>\nRhode Island<br \/>\nSouth Carolina<br \/>\nTennessee<br \/>\nTexas<br \/>\nVermont<br \/>\nVirginia<br \/>\nWashington<br \/>\nWest Virginia<br \/>\nWisconsin<br \/>\nWyoming<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"221\">1<br \/>\n3<br \/>\n2<br \/>\n35<br \/>\n6<br \/>\n48<br \/>\n2<br \/>\n17<br \/>\n12<br \/>\n14<br \/>\n14<br \/>\n1<br \/>\n1<br \/>\n1<br \/>\n196<br \/>\n12<br \/>\n140<br \/>\n9<br \/>\n3<br \/>\n4<br \/>\n1<br \/>\n1<br \/>\n1<br \/>\n10<br \/>\n13<br \/>\n1<br \/>\n110<br \/>\n14<br \/>\n7<br \/>\n1<br \/>\n17<br \/>\n9<br \/>\n5<br \/>\n2<br \/>\n10<br \/>\n8<br \/>\n16<br \/>\n9<br \/>\n1<br \/>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Viewers watched the webcast from 17 countries:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Burundi<br \/>\nCanada<br \/>\nCyprus<br \/>\nDenmark<br \/>\nFinland<br \/>\nFrance<br \/>\nGeorgia<br \/>\nGermany<br \/>\nIndia<br \/>\nIsrael<br \/>\nJapan<br \/>\nMalaysia<br \/>\nNetherlands<br \/>\nPeru<br \/>\nSweden<br \/>\nUnited Kingdom<br \/>\nUnited States<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Multimedia<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Diversity and Excellence\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/33002146?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Six days prior to the campus announcement, Bates Communications staffers traveled to Harvard to interview, video and photograph Clayton Spencer. The session yielded <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/video\/\">11 video segments<\/a><\/strong> about her life, work and vision\u00a0that attracted 6,668 plays.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Diversity and Excellence: 1,686 plays<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Why Bates?: 1,153<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Educating the Whole Person: 724<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Bates as an Educational Leader: 489<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">The Liberal Arts: 471<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Peter Gomes &#8217;65: 453<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Kennedy and Washington, D.C.: 379<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Higher Education as the Family Business: 345<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">My Intellectual Awakening: 331<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Leadership: 323<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Access and Affordability: 314<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a summary of coverage of the election of Clayton Spencer&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[10935],"class_list":["post-67102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batesnews","tag-clayton-spencer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67102","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67102"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83227,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67102\/revisions\/83227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}