Colby College
Founded in 1813, Colby College is the 12th oldest liberal arts college in the United States. Distinctive in its offerings, Colby provides an intimate, undergraduate-focused learning environment with a breadth of programs presenting students and faculty with unparalleled opportunities. A vibrant and fully integrated academic, residential, and cocurricular experience is sustained by a diverse and supportive community. Located in Waterville, Maine, Colby is a global institution with students representing nearly every U.S. state and approximately 70 countries. Colby’s model provides the scale and impact of larger universities coupled with intensive learning in a community committed to scholarship and discovery, multidisciplinary approaches to integrated learning, study in the liberal arts, and leading-edge programs addressing the world’s most complex challenges. Its network of partnerships with prestigious cultural, research, medical, and business institutions extends educational and scholarly collaborations, providing students with unmatched experiences leading to postgraduate success. The College’s wide variety of programs and labs provides students and the community access to unique experiences: the Colby College Museum of Art, the finest college art museum in the country, and the Lunder Institute for American Art have made the College a nationally and internationally recognized center for art scholarship; DavisConnects prepares students for lifelong success by combining a forward-thinking liberal arts education with extensive internship, research, and global opportunities for all students regardless of their personal networks and financial circumstances; and the 350,000-square-foot Harold Alfond Athletics and Recreation Center, opened in 2020, is the most advanced and comprehensive NCAA D-III facility in the country. In fall 2021, Colby opened the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the first such institute at a liberal arts college.www.colby.edu
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Oct 1, 2026
Jack DickensHOST
I'm Jack Dickens, literary editor at Engelsberg Ideas, and today I'm joined by Paul Josephson.
Jack DickensHOST
Paul is Professor Emeritus of Russian and Soviet History at Colby College, and an expert on the development of 20th century science, particularly in the Soviet Union and former Soviet countries.
Jack DickensHOST
Earlier this week, a Russian drone strike hit the National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv in broad daylight.
Jack DickensHOST
At least one person was killed and three others were wounded.
Shawn LaatschGUEST
And these little red dots basically are galaxies at the very edge of the known universe.
Shawn LaatschGUEST
And that's one of the things that James Webb was really looking to do is to be looking for sort of you know galaxies and mapping these galaxy clusters and so they found a whole variety of these little what they call little red dots they appear as a really tiny little red dot but we do know they're a galaxy based on their spectra and we've seen quite a few of them out there and so there's been a bunch of research on that and it's continuing actually one of our grad students here Brenda Jones actually does some work on those little red dots with one of her collaborators at Colby College, Dale Kasafsky, who also has JWST data and working on that.
Shawn LaatschGUEST
So it's kind of a fun thing to see that they're sort of stretching out and seeing farther back in time.
Shawn LaatschGUEST
And that's one of the nice things with infrared because things are shifted towards the infrared will allow you to see deeper than, for instance, Hubble.
Marilyn R. PukkilaGUEST
And I taught a course on Tolkien's sources.
Marilyn R. PukkilaGUEST
at Colby College for 35 years.
Marilyn R. PukkilaGUEST
Off and on.
Marilyn R. PukkilaGUEST
I only taught in Jan Plan, so I had to do only one course a year.
Marilyn R. PukkilaHOST
And I taught a course on Tolkien's sources.
Marilyn R. PukkilaHOST
at Colby College for 35 years.
Marilyn R. PukkilaHOST
Off and on.
Marilyn R. PukkilaHOST
I only taught in Jan Plan, so I had to do only one course a year.
Chuck ThompsonGUEST
a very meandering road.
Chuck ThompsonGUEST
I think Colby College's career counseling in 1994, Charlie, was like the wife of a dean with a book in an office.
Chuck ThompsonGUEST
And you went in like, you know, and generally said, teach for America's down the hall.
Chuck ThompsonGUEST
If you want to move out west, you go down this door and the rest of you are on your own.
Ed RobersonHOST
Olivia grew up in a tiny village in the woods of northern Wisconsin, the daughter of two school teachers who spent their summers road tripping around the country with Olivia and her older sister.
Ed RobersonHOST
She went on to become an All-American Nordic skier at Colby College, and after graduation, she made the hard decision to not pursue pro skiing.
Ed RobersonHOST
Instead, she began working in the corporate world in San Francisco, where the Bay Area trail running community pulled her in, and she began to make a name for herself in the world of ultrarunning.
Ed RobersonHOST
Along the way, she's dealt with serious health challenges, including a diagnosis of Stage Four endometriosis, which she speaks about openly and honestly.
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Olivia AmberGUEST
I was like, "This sucks." [laughs] This isn't fun, but I want life and, like, the things that I pursue and do to be kind of enjoyable, but, like, is that possible to have both? Like, I don't really know.
Olivia AmberGUEST
But, um, yeah, as kind of the direction and path that I took, and it helped me also find success along the way.
Ed RobersonHOST
So if my stalking is correct, you ended up at Colby College, which is probably, like, the only place you could go that's colder and darker than where you grew up.
Ed RobersonHOST
[laughs]
Travis HartfordSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I had a dream about where she was and And I'll just say it on here so that if anyone's ever in that area, they can go down and look for her.
Travis HartfordSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So if you go through Colby College, take a left onto County Road.
Travis HartfordSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
County Road is then over, there's an overpass of I-95.
Travis HartfordSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So within that area of land, the strip between Mislotsky Stream and County Road is where I had this dream of her.
Rod CabralHOST
But tuition revenue has actually fallen 8.1% in the past five years, according to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, because so many students now need financial assistance to make higher education affordable.
Rod CabralHOST
David Green, president of Maine's Colby College, says, It has trapped higher education into a death spiral.
Rod CabralHOST
It's not just small schools beginning to flail, said Douglas Belkin and Roshan Fernandez in the Wall Street Journal.
Rod CabralHOST
Syracuse University fell short of enrollment targets this academic year, sending the school into 1.5% budget shortfall.
Ryan KramerHOST
Drew, Drew-
CJ SullivanGUEST
[laughs] He gave me the Colby College handicapping.
Ryan KramerHOST
Drew Phillips-
CJ SullivanGUEST
Where there's some assistant coach was roommates with somebody.
Ryan KramerHOST
Drew, Drew-
CJ SullivanGUEST
[laughs] He gave me the Colby College handicapping.
Ryan KramerHOST
Drew Phillips-
CJ SullivanGUEST
Where there's some assistant coach was roommates with somebody.
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