Media Coverage
Colby's announcement about its Center for Resilience and Economic Impact garnered significant regional media attention. NBC affiliate News Center Maine, NPR's Maine Public, and the Portland Press Herald all covered the news, highlighting how the College's successful work in revitalizing Waterville will serve as a model for helping other Maine communities.
U.S. News & World Report quoted The Mitchell Family Professor of Economics, Andreas Waldkirch, about what costs more under Trump’s tariffs.
Newsweek sought commentary from Dan Shea, the Marson-Muller-McNulty Professor of Government, on the Bush family's political comeback in Maine. While the Trump-like GOP faction may "not warm to a Bush super fast," there is still a "very large, pragmatic, centrist piece of the Maine electorate," Shea said.
Leading international newspaper The Guardian featured Professor of Psychology Christopher Soto in a story exploring why the ‘type B’ personality is trending. In the piece, he noted that, “It may be a reaction to hustle culture. As people resist constant pressure, a more relaxed mindset is appealing.”
The release of Colby’s economic impact report drew widespread coverage among Maine media. The stories highlighted the significant change and growth that Waterville has experienced recently, proving the success of the College’s revitalization efforts and its “start everything at home" philosophy. Read and listen to the stories in centralmaine.com, WABI-TV, and ABC-7.
American Fine Art Magazine shone a spotlight on the Colby Museum’s Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery exhibition, highlighting how the painting’s elements “move in a void of voids, incomplete shadows detached from substance, ghosts of themselves.”
PBS Newshour interviewed Arisa White, associate professor of English (creative writing), about her partnership with the Indigo Arts Alliance, an organization based in Portland, Maine, focused on supporting contemporary Black and Brown artists.
Another measure of Colby's economic impact on Waterville is the wide variety of media that have covered the city's resurgence over the last five years. To that end, the popular men's lifestyle magazine Maxim recently published a story on road tripping through Maine, and as part of the piece, highlighted a visit to the Lockwood Hotel and its restaurant, Front & Main.
InsideHook, a new digital outlet covering lifestyle topics, included Waterville in a story about small-town alternatives for avoiding tourist traps. The piece noted how the city is a breath of fresh air compared to crowded Bar Harbor, and that it’s a “bustling small town, thanks in no small part to its resident campus, Colby College.”
The Colby Museum of Art was featured in Time Out’s “America’s best art museums.” The article noted that the museum is one of the very few in the U.S. with a wing dedicated to the work of a single living artist, Alex Katz. It also highlighted the museum’s strong folk art collection and site-specific works.