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Assistant Professor of Education Lauren Yoshizawa published a paper titled "The Imposition of Instrumental Research Use: How School and District Practitioners Enact Their State’s Evidence Requirements" in the American Educational Research Journal. "The Every Student Succeeds Act builds on prior efforts to bridge the gap between research and practice through the imposition of evidence requirements. This article presents findings from a small-scale micro-process study of three districts in one state during their first year of implementing those requirements," Yoshizawa writes in her abstract.
Professor of Philosophy Lydia Moland wrote a piece published in The American Scholar titled "Freedom Tales" about activist and abolitionist Lydia Maria Child. In addition to writing novels, Child wrote books for children to help them understand America's racial transgressions. "Her stories guaranteed young readers that honesty, ingenuity, and integrity were their birthright, characteristic of every American from the local farmer to George Washington," Moland wrote. "The overall message was clear: American children should treasure the ideals of freedom and equality they had inherited and pass them on."
The latest book by Associate Professor of Anthropology Britt Halvorson, Imagining the Heartland, is getting attention from multiple outlets. Halvorson and her coauthor were featured guests on the Leonard Lopate at Large show on WBAI New York on Aug. 30; Halvorson was the featured guest on journalist Andrew Keen's national podcast earlier in the summer; and the online news magazine Sapiens published an essay about the book in August. Looking ahead, the authors are doing another radio show/podcast on Sept. 6, Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen.
In a Portland Press Herald story highlighting the lack of affordable housing for students in Maine, Professor of Education Adam Howard noted that the "real cost" of college includes housing, food, and other expenses on top of tuition. With rising rents, housing costs, and inflationary pressures, Howard said he’s concerned that community colleges may become inaccessible for low-income students. “We need to completely restructure how we think about financial aid if we’re interested in college being for all people,” he told the Press Herald. “Not just for middle, upper middle class and wealthy people.”
A recent policy analysis that Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Stacy-ann Robinson coauthored with her students was mentioned in the Aug. 19, 2022, Foreign Policy's Latin America Brief that highlights the appointment of former Grenadian Environment Minister Simon Stiell as the new chief of the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change and his possible push for climate reparations. It also highlights the relevance of Robinson's policy analysis's findings—that airline travel and fossil fuel extraction levies are the loss and damage financing mechanisms that best consider the special circumstances of small island developing states.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Stacy-ann Robinson has published an article titled "Climate justice for small island developing states: Identifying appropriate international financing mechanisms for loss and damage." Appearing in the journal Climate Policy, the article qualitatively analyzes the appropriateness of five of the international financial mechanisms that scholars have argued should be urgently considered under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: levies on (1) airline travel, (2) fossil fuel extraction, (3) greenhouse gas emissions, (4) bunker fuel usage, and (5) financial transactions. The results indicate that, of the five mechanisms, levies on airline travel and fossil fuel extraction would most appropriately account for and meet the needs of small island developing states from a climate justice perspective. Matthew Lai '22 is the first author. Emmanuel Salas '21, William Thao '22, and Anna Shorb '22 are the other coauthors.
Patch published an article about the CourtWatchME program, which involved the Maine Drug Policy Lab at the College. The story included commentary from Winfred Tate, associate professor of anthropology, who explained that, “CourtWatch leaders would be analyzing data collected during the summer soon and would likely put out a report in mid-September.”
Jack Cosgrove, the Dick McGee Head Coach for Colby Football, talks about his experience at the College in an article published by Central Maine Newspapers. “Since arriving at Colby, I have become more and more enamored with a college that has seen tenfold improvements, both in its institutional stature and its athletic facilities,” Cosgrove said.
An article in the Washington Examiner about the Schumer-Manchin deal included commentary from L. Sandy Maisel, the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government, Emeritus, who pointed out that, “There was an inherent risk with the deal given the ‘Democrats in disarray’ caricature.” Another story published by the Global and Mail about Paul LePage, Maine’s republican candidate for governor, also referred to Maisel, who said that LePage “was modulating his image [without] saying anything outrageous.”