{"id":67446,"date":"2013-08-01T12:58:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T16:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=67446"},"modified":"2018-10-26T13:28:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T17:28:17","slug":"news-for-the-new-year-office-of-intercultural-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/08\/01\/news-for-the-new-year-office-of-intercultural-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Intercultural Education Office, Fall 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_61775\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/02\/Jelks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61775\" class=\"wp-image-61775\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/02\/Jelks.jpg\" alt=\"Randal Maurice Jelks, author of 2012\u2019s &quot;Schoolmaster of the Movement,&quot; the first full-length biography of Dr. Benjamin Mays '20.\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/02\/Jelks.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/02\/Jelks-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Randal Maurice Jelks, biographer of civil rights icon Dr. Benjamin Mays &#8217;20, is among the influential thinkers presented at Bates by the Office of Intercultural Education.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Office of Intercultural Education focuses on the mission of fostering dialogue and building bridges across difference.<\/p>\n<p>The OIE staff works directly with underrepresented student populations to ensure equity and access to all college resources, as well as to ensure social and academic success.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:mtaft@bates.edu\">Megan Taft<\/a><\/strong> continues as acting director and <a href=\"mailto:bhughes@bates.edu\"><strong>Benjamin Hughes<\/strong><\/a> \u201912 has been hired as the program and office coordinator.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/intercultural\">Learn more about the Office of Intercultural Education<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of Intercultural Education focuses on the mission of fostering dialogue&hellip;<\/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":[9946],"tags":[6590,11034],"class_list":["post-67446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exclude-from-loops","tag-office-of-intercultural-education","tag-summer-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67446","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=67446"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119787,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67446\/revisions\/119787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}