{"id":2397,"date":"2014-02-11T18:43:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T18:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2014-02-11T18:43:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T18:43:40","slug":"laurie-lachance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/laurie-lachance\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 99: President of Thomas College Laurie Lachance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong>\u00a099
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0February\u00a08
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Laurie Lachance
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

President of Thomas College<\/a>, Laurie Lachance grew up in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine.\u00a0 She earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in economics from Bowdoin College and then attended Thomas College to earn her master\u2019s in business administration.\u00a0 After graduating, Lachance worked at Central Maine Power for ten years as the Corporate Economist.<\/p>\n

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Host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe Steve Woods (left) talked with President of Thomas College Laurie Lachance (right) about economics and education in Maine.<\/p><\/div>\n

From 1993-2004 Lachance served as the Maine State Economist for three governors.\u00a0 In this capacity, she chaired the Maine State Revenue Forecasting Commission, and served as lead or co-lead on utility restructuring, telecommunications, the retirement industry, and tax reform.\u00a0 Prior to joining state government, Laurie served as the Corporate Economist at Central Maine Power Company.<\/p>\n

From 2004-2012, Laurie served as President and CEO of the Maine Development Foundation, a highly-regarded, non-profit, membership organization established in 1978.\u00a0 The Foundation\u2019s flagship programs include Leadership Maine, Policy Leaders Academy, the Maine Downtown Center, the Maine Employers\u2019 Initiative, and the Maine Economic Growth Council.<\/p>\n

In July 2012, Lachance was named as Thomas College\u2019s 5th<\/sup> President.\u00a0 She is the first female and the first alumna to lead this liberal arts college in its 118 year history.\u00a0 Lachance told Stevoe about the agreement that Thomas College has with their students, and that their graduates are guaranteed a job.<\/p>\n

Founded in 1894, Thomas College serves nearly 800 undergraduate and 200 CED and graduate students in business, IT, education, criminal justice, and arts and sciences.\u00a0 On average, 94 percent of Thomas graduates are hired in their field of study within 90 days of graduation. In August of 2012 they welcomed the largest incoming class in the history of the College<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Laurie Lachance came to the TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studio to talk with host Steve Woods about being an economist working with the state legislature and how these experiences contribute to her current role as the President of Thomas College. Lachance described for Stevoe that in her opinion educating Mainers is the most important thing we can do for our state. 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\/2397"}],"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=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}