{"id":2388,"date":"2017-02-24T14:45:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T19:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2022-06-30T17:32:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T21:32:19","slug":"american-talent-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/2017\/02\/24\/american-talent-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"American Talent Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2396\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/files\/2017\/02\/ati_presidents.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2396\" class=\"wp-image-2396 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/files\/2017\/02\/ati_presidents.jpg\" alt=\"The Presidents of the ATI consortium institutions, February 22, 2016. Bates President Clayton Spencer is standing fourth from the left. \" width=\"1200\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/files\/2017\/02\/ati_presidents.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/files\/2017\/02\/ati_presidents-400x130.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/files\/2017\/02\/ati_presidents-768x249.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/files\/2017\/02\/ati_presidents-900x292.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/files\/2017\/02\/ati_presidents-200x65.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Presidents of the ATI consortium institutions gathered for a roundtable. Bates President Clayton Spencer is standing fourth from the left. Click on the image for a larger view.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On February 22nd, 2017, Clayton Spencer, President of Bates College, Sean Findlen, Chief Communications Officer, and Ann Marie Russell, Director of Institutional Research, Planning, and Analysis, attended the ATI Presidential Roundtable\u00a0in New York City to discuss the issues facing low- and moderate-income students in accessing higher education. The American Talent Initiative (ATI) is a Bloomberg Philanthropies-supported collaboration between the Aspen Institute&#8217;s College Excellence Program, Ithaka S+R, and an\u00a0alliance of colleges and universities to expand opportunity and access for students with financial needs. Bates is one of the founding higher-education institutions supporting this project. For more on the American Talent Initiative at Bates, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2016\/12\/14\/bates-joins-select-us-colleges-in-major-access-initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our announcement<\/a>, or go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/americantalentinitiative.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ATI website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2391\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/files\/2017\/02\/ann_marie_mike_bloomberg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2391\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/files\/2017\/02\/ann_marie_mike_bloomberg.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Bloomberg and Ann Marie Russell at the ATI Presidential Roundtable\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/files\/2017\/02\/ann_marie_mike_bloomberg.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/files\/2017\/02\/ann_marie_mike_bloomberg-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/files\/2017\/02\/ann_marie_mike_bloomberg-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/files\/2017\/02\/ann_marie_mike_bloomberg-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/files\/2017\/02\/ann_marie_mike_bloomberg-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Bloomberg and Ann Marie Russell at the ATI Presidential Roundtable<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 22nd, 2017, Clayton Spencer, President of Bates College, Sean Findlen,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":2391,"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":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-american-talent-initiative","tag-ati","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3381,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions\/3381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}