Media Coverage

Like Woodstock, “by the end it was muddy and dirty,” commented Colby Professor of Government Dan Shea in a story on rural Maine’s reaction to the expensive, no holds barred advertising from the two leading candidates in the state’s Senate Race.

The Wall Street Journal featured Colby’s Pay It Northward initiative in a story about young job seekers tapping alumni networks. The article references how “almost 700 alumni and parents came forward” to help this year’s graduates, and highlights the great success of the campaign for both students and employers.

The editorial called the Colby College Museum of Art's recent Jacob Lawrence acquisition a "small part of an effort to provide a fuller, richer account" of the untold history of race and oppression in America. The piece also notes that the 15 silkscreen prints are an important part of Lawrence's portrayal of the Black narrative.

Colby student entrepreneurs were highlighted in a Morning Sentinel article about pitching their businesses to judges from the EMMY-nominated Greenlight Maine. Nine Colby companies were represented in the competition, and a winner will be selected to participate in an episode of the show's Collegiate Challenge next spring.

Colby was prominently featured in a MarketWatch story on how colleges plan to prevent the spread of COVID-19 as students return home for the holiday break. The article quotes Vice President for Administration Doug Terp on how the goal is to "keep everybody in the bubble right up until Thanksgiving so we know they’re safe and healthy.”

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Nicholas Jacobs spoke to the Morning Sentinel about voter turnout and whether Maine municipalities "flipped" political parties from 2016 to 2020, noting that "in most places across the country, voting patterns remain the same or further polarized."

The New York Times covered the range of plans colleges are implementing as Thanksgiving and the end of the semester approaches, highlighting Colby's success at keeping the virus "at bay" and the proactive measures being taken to keep its community safe over the holiday break and upon returning to campus.

In light of the Nov. 3 election results, including a win for U.S. Senator Susan Collins, versus the polling data, Professor of Government Dan Shea offered his thoughts on the discrepancy to various media outlets, including to the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, the Portland Press Herald, and the Bangor Daily News.

The Art Newspaper, which reports on the arts worldwide, reported on Colby's recent acquisition of the Jacob Lawrence print series The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture (1986-97). "Lawrence depicts L’Ouverture as a 'Black Napoleon' who 'fought and contributed much to our continuous struggle for liberty,' he [Lawrence] told the writer Walter Dean Myers, who published a children’s history book in 1996 using images from the series," the paper reported.

A web series created by Bess Welden, a playwright, actress, and teaching artist in Colby's Theater and Dance Department, was the subject of an Oct. 26 Portland Press Herald article. Welden has adapted the play The Passion of the Hausfrau, "about the chaos of raising kids, into a seven-episode web series filmed entirely in her home and available on YouTube," the Press Herald reports.