Dickinson in the News: December 2021
More than 100 news organizations nationwide have collectively published or broadcast 201 stories mentioning Dickinson hosting the first debate among the Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidates. Highlights include coverage by the Associated Press, U.S. News & World Report, USA Today Network, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Tribune-Review (Pittsburgh) and TV and radio stations in every media market in Pennsylvania.
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Interim President John E. Jones III ’77, P’11, discussed the educational work of the Pennslyvania Commission on Judicial Independence on This Week In Pennsylvania, which was broadcast on six TV stations across the Commonwealth, including WPHL in Philadelphia and WHTM in Harrisburg. He also discussed the initiative in an article for PennWatch.
President Jones also appeared on WITF-FM’s Smart Talk, discussing how the judicial system can better respond to extremism, a follow-up to his role on a panel at the Eradicate Hate Global Summit in Pittsburgh in October.
Inside Higher Ed mentioned The Campaign for Scholarships: Change a Life—Change the World, the first major initiative in Dickinson Forward.
Dickinson ranked second in The Princeton Review’s 2022 list of "green colleges," which also resulted in an article on WPMT-TV FOX43’s website.
Baltimore Magazine included a feature about George and Jennifer Ward Reynolds ’77, who have launched the Reynolds Leadership Scholar Program, which grants $160,000, four-year scholarships to high-achieving students from Maryland.
News of the college awarding the Rose-Walters Prize for Environmental Activism to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) received media coverage in 210 outlets, including Yahoo Finance, MarketWatch, Seeking Alpha and dozens of other regional newspaper and TV station websites.
The renaming of Spradley-Young Hall and Pinkney Gate garnered coverage including multiple articles in The Sentinel; The Patriot-News; three local TV stations and TV and radio stations in Memphis, Topeka, Richmond, Pittsburgh, Wilkes-Barre and Sunbury. Professor Matthew Pinsker featured heavily in the coverage, as did President John E. Jones III ’77, P’11 and students Caroline Eagleton ’23, Charlotte Goodman ’23, Jordyn Ney ’23 and Amanda Sowah ’22.
Professor Pinsker was also mentioned in a Washington Post story on the journalist who inspired Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
Professor Eren Bilen was quoted in an Inside Higher Ed article on academic integrity and how colleges can contain cheating.
Professor Sarah Niebler discussed voter turnout with WPMT-TV FOX43.
Director of West Coast Recruitment Phil Moreno was featured in an article in LAist, the online magazine from KPCC-FM (NPR/Los Angeles).
Vice President for Enrollment and Dean of Admissions Catherine McDonald Davenport ’87 was quoted in The Patriot-News discussing international enrollments bouncing back after a dip during the start of the pandemic.
College Archivist and Co-director of the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center Jim Gerencser ’93 is among the people interviewed for the new Independent Lens/PBS documentary film Home From School: The Children of Carlisle, which explores the efforts of the Northern Arapaho tribe to repatriate the remains for three children who died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in the 1880s. Gerencser also spoke on a panel at the film’s premiere. Prof. Darren Lone Fight also was part of the panel.
Gerencser also discussed the center’s work and how it relates to Home From School on WITF-FM’s Smart Talk.
Additionally, Gerencser appeared as an in-studio guest on WGAL-TV’s In Focus, discussing the work of the center to make documents on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School easily available.
The Digital Resource Center was mentioned in a Voice of America article explaining how the center helped a New Jersey museum better tell the story of native children sent to work on white families’ farms.
Rabbi Marley Weiner of the Asbell Center appeared on WHTM-TV and WHP-TV discussing how the Dickinson community responded to an act of anti-Semitism and racism.
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Published March 13, 2020