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An article about Colby's resolve to "keep the learning going" appeared in the Morning Sentinel and Kennebec Journal. “We’re not asking the faculty to create an online class, just to keep the learning going,” said Carol Hurney, Colby's associate provost and director of Colby’s Center for Teaching and Learning. “And that’s a different thing entirely. We said, ‘Think this through, prioritize the learning you want to happen and use tools you are already comfortable with.'” The article also checked in with Louisa Goldman '20 from her home in St. Louis. “It’s definitely been a big transition,” she said. “What’s been weird is I’m still writing my thesis on Maine, Question 1 on the ballot, and it feels a little bit disconnected. They extended spring break as part of online learning and so I kind of fell behind on my proposed schedule. But the good thing is, I’m now adding in a coronavirus section.”

An article about Colby's resolve to "keep the learning going" appeared in the Morning Sentinel and Kennebec Journal. “We’re not asking the faculty to create an online class, just to keep the learning going,” said Carol Hurney, Colby's associate provost and director of Colby’s Center for Teaching and Learning. “And that’s a different thing entirely. We said, ‘Think this through, prioritize the learning you want to happen and use tools you are already comfortable with.'” The article also checked in with Louisa Goldman '20 from her home in St. Louis. “It’s definitely been a big transition,” she said. “What’s been weird is I’m still writing my thesis on Maine, Question 1 on the ballot, and it feels a little bit disconnected. They extended spring break as part of online learning and so I kind of fell behind on my proposed schedule. But the good thing is, I’m now adding in a coronavirus section.”

The Wall Street Journal reached out to President David A. Greene for their April 13 article titled "The Coronavirus Economic Reopening Will Be Fragile, Partial and Slow." President Greene added to the discussion with his thoughts on possible scenarios for having students return to campus this fall. “Do we thin the number of people on campus? Does it mean more online instruction? We’re planning for any and all of those, including a very different type of year next year,” he told the WSJ.

The Wall Street Journal reached out to President David A. Greene for their April 13 article titled "The Coronavirus Economic Reopening Will Be Fragile, Partial and Slow." President Greene added to the discussion with his thoughts on possible scenarios for having students return to campus this fall. “Do we thin the number of people on campus? Does it mean more online instruction? We’re planning for any and all of those, including a very different type of year next year,” he told the WSJ.

Professor of Education Adam Howard and Kayla Freeman '19 have published an article in the journal International Studies in Sociology of Education titled "Teaching difference: global citizenship education within an elite single-sex context." The article is the culmination of their collaboration on the project, which "employs the concept of ‘everyday multiculturalism’ to examine what students at an elite school in Australia are taught about working with and across difference through global citizenship education within a single-sex classroom model." Freeman was Howard's student research assistant for two years, and they presented an earlier draft of this article at the Eastern Sociological Society conference last year. 

Eliza Dean '22 penned an op-ed that appeared in the Morning Sentinel titled "No time to say goodbye: COVID-19 means an abrupt pause in the relationship between Colby mentor and her second-grade mentee." Dean writes, "One of the first thoughts I had after I received the news that I would have to leave Colby College in the middle of the semester wasn’t how I would get home to San Francisco. It wasn’t where to store a dorm room full of stuff, or that I was leaving my friends. My first thought was, I need to say goodbye to my Colby Cares About Kids mentee."

Eliza Dean '22 penned an op-ed that appeared in the Morning Sentinel titled "No time to say goodbye: COVID-19 means an abrupt pause in the relationship between Colby mentor and her second-grade mentee." Dean writes, "One of the first thoughts I had after I received the news that I would have to leave Colby College in the middle of the semester wasn’t how I would get home to San Francisco. It wasn’t where to store a dorm room full of stuff, or that I was leaving my friends. My first thought was, I need to say goodbye to my Colby Cares About Kids mentee."

Professor of Economics Michael Donihue was one of three experts tapped for a Bangor Daily News article titled "Economists paint ‘dire’ picture for Maine in potentially long coronavirus recession."If you think about Maine’s economy, we do have a healthy manufacturing sector, but it’s nowhere near what it was historically, and it certainly isn’t the most important driver," Donihue said. "And as we look to the summer months, as normally we get that boom in tourism that many businesses depend on for the entire year. It’s unlikely we’re going to have the same traffic to Maine. So the outlook for the economy in Maine is pretty dire, I would say." 

Professor of Economics Michael Donihue was one of three experts tapped for a Bangor Daily News article titled "Economists paint ‘dire’ picture for Maine in potentially long coronavirus recession."If you think about Maine’s economy, we do have a healthy manufacturing sector, but it’s nowhere near what it was historically, and it certainly isn’t the most important driver," Donihue said. "And as we look to the summer months, as normally we get that boom in tourism that many businesses depend on for the entire year. It’s unlikely we’re going to have the same traffic to Maine. So the outlook for the economy in Maine is pretty dire, I would say." 

Provost and Dean of Faculty Margaret McFadden was quoted in the NPR story "How Colleges Are Grading Students During Coronavirus," which discusses strategies that colleges are using during the coronavirus pandemic. "Our goal was to give students as much flexibility and choice as possible," McFadden told NPR, "and allow our students to focus on learning and doing their best work knowing that they have control over how they are evaluated." Colby is allowing students to choose to receive regular letter grades for all courses or designate some or all of their courses satisfactory/unsatisfactory.