{"id":1337,"date":"2013-06-12T18:51:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T18:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2013-06-12T20:31:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T20:31:25","slug":"kate-foster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/kate-foster\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 65: President of the University of Maine at Farmington Kate Foster"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong>\u00a065
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0June 8
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Kate Foster
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Dr. Kathryn \u201cKate\u201d Foster was born in New Jersey.\u00a0 She attended Johns Hopkins University and received her bachelor\u2019s degree in Geography and Environmental Engineering.\u00a0 After receiving her master\u2019s degree in city and regional planning from the University of California at Berkeley, she became the regional planner in San Luis Obispo County, California.\u00a0 This is where she became introduced to the teaching side of academia.\u00a0 At the age of 25, she was asked to teach \u201cIntro to Planning\u201d at California Polytechnic State University, and decided that teaching was her future.<\/p>\n

\"Kate\"

TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods (left) is joined in the studio by the University of Maine at Farmington president Dr. Kathryn “Kate” Foster (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

Foster became the 14th president of the University of Maine at Farmington<\/a> in July of 2012.\u00a0 As a scholar-educator with thirty years of experience in public higher education and regional policy and practice, Foster comes to UMF from a position as Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C., where she was on research leave from the State University of New York at Buffalo.<\/p>\n

Foster is a frequent public speaker on regional decision making and governance.\u00a0 Foster is the author of Regionalism on Purpose (2001), The Political Economy of Special-Purpose Government (1997) and numerous book chapters, articles, and policy reports.\u00a0 Foster is also associate director and principal investigator of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Building Resilient Regions.<\/p>\n

In Foster\u2019s free time she enjoys golf, gardening, spending time outdoors, and reading.<\/p>\n

About UMF:\u00a0<\/strong> The school was chartered in 1863 and began in 1864 as the first public institution of higher learning in the state.\u00a0 UMF is Maine\u2019s public liberal arts college with offerings in teacher education, human services and arts and sciences.\u00a0 Enrollment is limited to 2,000 students, which makes it about the same size as many of New England’s most selective private colleges.\u00a0 UMF was named \u201cOne of America\u2019s Best Colleges\u201d by U.S.News & World Report for 15 consecutive years (1998-2013) and was named a \u201cCollege of Distinction\u201d by the 2008-09 Colleges of Distinction Guidebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While in the TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studio, host Steve Woods and president of the University of Maine at Farmington Kate Foster discussed her love of Bruce Springsteen, her time spent in the Peace Corps and how a poem influenced her decision to come to Maine. The two also talked about UMF’s upcoming sesquicentennial celebration and how she envisions the future of education at the University. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}