Media Coverage

Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government Sandy Maisel was a guest on Maine Public's show Maine Calling discussing Trump's final days in office as well as the second impeachment. The show discussed "repercussions of the siege in D.C., and what to expect of our government leaders and citizenry as Inauguration Day approaches."

Colby's robust testing program was called out in a Maine Public story on Maine colleges' testing programs as students return to campus. Colby is testing three times a week in January, versus twice last semester. “Having one more opportunity to get a test result,” said Doug Terp, vice president for administration. “That convinced us of doing three (tests) for January, and then beyond if we could do that, that made a lot of sense.”

Matt Proto, vice president for enrollment and communications, was interviewed for the NewsCenter Maine story "Applying to college during a pandemic," which aired Jan. 13. Even before the pandemic, Colby's Admissions Office has been increasing its virtual presence. "It helps students who can't afford to visit a hundred college campuses," Proto said.   

The art world paid attention to Colby's recent announcement of the acquisition of the Tsiaras Family Photography Collection. Coverage came from Art Daily, the Portland Press Herald, and the Morning Sentinel. “This remarkable gift from Bill and Nancy Tsiaras allows the Colby Museum and its audiences to fully engage with photography, which has been critical to the development of art, and American culture in particular, since its inception in the 19th century,” said Jacqueline Terrassa, Carolyn Muzzy Director of the Colby Museum.

“This is a very difficult problem for Biden,” said Professor of Government Dan Shea in the Globe and Mail article "Capitol Hill assault will complicate Joe Biden’s presidency." (Also viewable here.) “We are in an era when each side views the other as the enemy, when each side thinks the other is a danger to the country, when there is no trust whatsoever," Shea said. "There is a crisis of trust coursing throughout the political system.”

“A truly inclusive environment is to the benefit of everybody,” said Jacqueline Terrassa, the Carolyn Muzzy Director of the Colby Museum of Art, in the Portland Press Herald article "New faces, fresh perspectives leading Maine museums." Terrassa, a Puerto Rican, is one of five new directors of color leading prominent Maine art or cultural institutions. "If we create room where the 6 percent feel they belong and they have ownership and voice," Terrassa told the Press Herald, "it is to the benefit of the rest.” 

The Central Maine Growth Council has named Josh Kim '22 its 2020 Emerging Leader of the Year, the Morning Sentinel reports. Kim, an entrepreneur who founded the startup The Cubby, is the first college student to receive the award. "Josh is an example of the region’s brilliant young talent, local ingenuity, and an emerging cluster of software development tech startups and innovators in downtown Waterville," said Garvan Donegan, CMGC's director of planning, innovation, and economic development.

An article in the New Hampshire Union Leader titled "Tapping your network: Grads reach out to alumni for jobs" includes an extensive section about Colby's Pay It Northward initiative. The article features Eric Post '06, who hired two Colby graduates to work at ITR Economics, where Post is a senior economist and econ manager. "When you get interconnections, it takes some of the risk off the table from an employer perspective and gives you greater comfort that you are getting the person as advertised.” Post said.

Chris Myers Asch, a visiting instructor in the History Department, was quoted in the op-ed "D.C.’s Black churches will remain a ‘beacon of light’," written in the aftermath of the Dec. 12 pro-Trump rally in the nation's capital. Black churches “are a place where Black people can make their grievances heard, both to the city and, because it’s D.C., to the nation," Asch said. "They are important sites for community-building and political organizing in black communities throughout our country.”

Insider Advantage Georgia gives an overview of the acting career of Will Hochman '14, who is a new face on the CBS drama Blue Bloods. Highlights of Hochman's career include a role in Broadway's The Sound Inside and in the film Let Him Go.