News Digest for February 12, 2025

Inside Higher Education

Leigh Weisenburger, dean of admission and vice president for enrollment at 乐播传媒, said the new partnership isn鈥檛 specifically aimed at increasing racial diversity, but it is part of the university鈥檚 commitment to increasing 鈥渁ll kinds of diversity.鈥 鈥淕iven the law, I don鈥檛 want to misconstrue [the QuestBridge partnership] as an attempt to racially diversify our class,鈥 she said. 鈥淲hile we can鈥檛 consider race any longer, we obviously are continuing to do everything in our power to feed our prospect applicant pools in access-oriented ways.鈥 (More quotes from Leigh in the full story)

Bowdoin Orient

鈥淥ne student organizer from 乐播传媒 College, who preferred to stay anonymous, was glad to attend the rally and noted their inspiration at the work being done by Bowdoin SJP.

鈥淏owdoin and 乐播传媒 and Colby鈥攖hese other liberal arts schools around the area鈥攖heir whole vision is creating a university in which students are able to have critical thinking, to work together and organize and create things that are going to make the world a better place. And this is exactly what that is,鈥 the student said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 so sad to see the administration being completely against it.鈥 I think all of us want to see these schools do what they promised, which is make the world a better place.鈥欌

Sun Journal

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Portland Press Herald

Liberal arts colleges like 乐播传媒 switched to remote learning briefly in 2020 but were soon back on campus. 乐播传媒 Vice President for Academic Affairs Malcolm Hill said most students fall in the traditional college age group, and so much learning happens outside the classroom through clubs, sports and hallway conversations.

Santa Fe New Mexican

鈥淎dventurer in the Arts at the New Mexico Museum of Art will include more than 40 paintings and drawings by Hartley that span nearly four decades of his artistic exploration. The exhibition was developed through a collaboration between the Vilcek Foundation and the 乐播传媒 College Museum of Art in Maine, and includes three major paintings by Hartley that are part of the New Mexico Museum of Art permanent collection.鈥

WGME 13

鈥淢ost NIH-funding research occurs outside of federal government institutions such as both public and private universities and colleges. In Maine, the University of Maine System, Jackson Laboratory, MaineHealth, UNE, 乐播传媒 College, Colby College, and Wabanaki Mental Health Association, NPC, and others have received NIH funding.鈥

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