{"id":4447,"date":"2025-04-22T14:07:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T18:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/?p=4447"},"modified":"2025-04-22T14:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T18:09:15","slug":"bates-president-garry-w-jenkins-signs-aacu-aaas-call-for-constructive-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/2025\/04\/22\/bates-president-garry-w-jenkins-signs-aacu-aaas-call-for-constructive-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates President Garry W. Jenkins signs AAC&amp;U, AAAS \u201cCall for Constructive Engagement\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Tuesday, April 22, 2025, the American Association of Colleges and Universities and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences published \u201cA Call for Constructive Engagement.\u201d This statement \u2014 signed by more than 150 college and university presidents and leaders of scholarly societies, including Bates President Garry W. Jenkins, was written in response to ongoing federal actions affecting higher education. The full text of the statement is available&nbsp;on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aacu.org\/newsroom\/a-call-for-constructive-engagement\">AAC&amp;U website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:250px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, April 22, 2025, the American Association of Colleges and Universities&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1659,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office-of-the-president","category-president-jenkins-speeches-and-statements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4450,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions\/4450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}