{"id":67975,"date":"2013-08-26T16:38:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T20:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=67975"},"modified":"2022-12-05T16:10:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T21:10:49","slug":"portland-paper-quotes-spencer-on-obama-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/08\/26\/portland-paper-quotes-spencer-on-obama-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland paper quotes Spencer on Obama plan to rate colleges’ cost and value"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spencer noted a range of statistics that demonstrate ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½’ commitment to the principles of the Obama plan. Phyllis Graber Jensen\/ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College<\/p><\/div>\n

After President Obama announced a plan to create a rating system to gauge the affordability and value of colleges and universities nationwide, and to tie federal student financial aid to the scores, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ President Clayton Spencer was among the Maine higher education leaders the Portland Press Herald<\/i>\u00a0 sought out for reaction.<\/p>\n

In a written statement, Spencer said, \u201cI am very pleased to see President Obama’s focus on access and results in higher education. ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ has been committed to these principles since its founding in 1855 as one of the first liberal arts colleges in the nation to be coeducational and to welcome students of color.<\/p>\n

\u201cÀÖ²¥´«Ã½’ total cost of attendance for 2013-14 is $58,950 but our average net cost, as reported on the White House ‘College Scorecard’<\/a> for 2013, is $21,402. More than 45% of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students receive financial aid, with an average grant for those on aid in excess of $38,000. We work hard to support all of our students for success, and 93 percent of those who enter ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ graduate with a bachelor’s degree.”<\/p>\n

In a story the next day, the paper quoted Spencer\u2019s entire statement, though not in the exact order in which it was presented.<\/p>\n

Two related points are that the average\u00a0cumulative\u00a0loan\u00a0debt\u00a0from federal\u00a0student\u00a0loan programs for ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students graduating in 2012 was $17,070 \u2014 nearly $10,000 lower than the national average of $26,000 \u2014 and that 60 percent of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students graduate with no loans.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 View the story from the Portland Press Herald, Aug. 23, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Portland Press Herald sought the opinion of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ president, among others, about the new proposal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":66884,"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,"bates_author_byline_override":"Roland Adams","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"","_header-color":"#000000","_photo-credit":"","_header-effect":"parallax","override_related_with_tag":"","_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":[8,11009],"tags":[11048,11051,10935],"class_list":["post-67975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bates-values","category-the-college","tag-accessibility","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-clayton-spencer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67975","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=67975"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150245,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67975\/revisions\/150245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}