Clayton Spencer

Clayton Spencer

Spencer speaking at a press event in 2014
8th President of Bates College
Assumed office
July 1, 2012 (2012-07-01)
Salary See compensation
Preceded by Elaine Tuttle Hansen
Personal details
Born Ava Clayton Spencer
(1954-12-15) December 15, 1954
Concord, North Carolina, U.S.
Nationality American
Children 2
Residence Lewiston, Maine
Alma mater Williams College
University of Oxford
Harvard University
Yale University
Occupation
  • Vice President of Institutional Policy of Harvard University
  • Associate Vice President of Higher Education for Harvard University
Profession Academic administrator
Website Office of the President of Bates College

Clayton Spencer (born December 15, 1954) is an American academic administrator, policymaker, and attorney. She is the 8th and current president of Bates College, in Lewiston, Maine; the second woman to hold the office. Born in Concord, North Carolina, Spencer is a graduate of Williams College, the University of Oxford, Harvard University, and Yale Law School, where she served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal. She was an attorney in Boston, before becoming the chief education counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources from 1993 to 1997.

In 1997, Spencer returned to Harvard University as a consultant for federal policy issues. The following year she was appointed Associate Vice President for Higher Education Policy of the undergraduate college. Soon after, Spencer became the institutional dean of the newly founded Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study eventually becoming Harvard's Vice President of Institutional Policy. In Fall 2012, after media speculation, Spencer was appointed the president of Bates College. From her inauguration in July 2012 to November 2016, Spencer has generated approximately $105 million for the college. During her tenure, Spencer ordered changes to the Short Term Program by creating Practitioner-Taught Courses, appointed committees to expand the college's curriculum, increased the market value of the school's endowment, and expanded the campus by refurbishing Smith Hall and building two new residential dorms, Kalperis and Chu Hall.[1]

She currently jointly serves on the board of directors of the American Council on Education. Spencer has served on the board of trustees for Williams College and Phillips Exeter Academy. Spencer is a guest lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Early life and education

Ava Clayton Spencer was born in 1954 in Concord, North Carolina, to Ava Spencer and Samuel Reid Spencer Jr., a Harvard-trained historian who served as president of Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia, from 1957 to 1968 and Davidson College in North Carolina from 1968 to 1984. “I grew up as the daughter of a college president. I used to sneak across campus to watch commencements as a kid, dinner conversation was about the issues facing the college” Spencer has stated of her childhood.[2]

In 1977, Spencer earned her bachelor’s degree from Williams College, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, with highest honors in history and German, then earned a B.A. in theology from Oxford University in 1979. She received a M.A. in religion from Harvard University in 1982 and a law degree in 1985 from Yale Law School, where she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and winner of the Moot Court competition.

Government career

Upon graduating law school, she clerked for Judge Rya W. Zobel of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts from 1985 to 1986 and then practiced law at the Boston firm of Ropes & Gray from 1986 to 1989. Spencer served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Boston from 1989 to 1993 until becoming chief education counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources from 1993 to 1997 under U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy's chairmanship.[2] She spoke highly of Kennedy stating, “He was hugely progressive and relentless in pursuing his goals, but very pragmatic. That was formative. You can be idealistic and get nothing done; or you can be idealistic, keep your eye on the ball, and take a set of practical steps to advance your goals.”[3]

Harvard career

Spencer joined Harvard in February 1997 as a consultant for federal policy issues.[4] The following year, she was appointed associate vice president for higher education policy reporting to the President, and quickly rose through the ranks to become the Vice President for Institutional Policy. Spencer was widely known for “her collaborative approach, effectiveness in getting things done and passionate commitment to access and affordability.”[2] In January 2003, Spencer's profile, along with other Harvard faculty was filtered into then-student Mark Zuckerberg's newly created "Facemash", the site was shut down by Harvard's administration because it overloaded network switches and limited internet access.[5][6]

Crimson Summer Academy

The Crimson Summer Academy (CSA) was founded as a "a University program that draws local high-achieving, economically disadvantaged students to study at Harvard for six weeks each summer"[7] by Spencer in 2003.[8] The program is funded by the President’s Office at Harvard University. In 2013, Spencer attended an event hosted by the Harvard School of Education in celebration of the program's 10-year anniversary.[9]

Harvard Financial Aid Initiative

One of Spencer's most notable accomplishments is her involvement in the 2004 Harvard Financial Aid Initiative. Her initial contributions spanned the formulation of the program and subsequently expanded the initiative across all of Harvard's outlets. The Harvard Magazine characterized her contributions as "[making Harvard] more affordable to middle-class and upper-middle class families, and to eliminate the family contribution to the cost of attending for many students from lower-income households."[10]

Harvard-Radcliffe merger

In this capacity she advocated for the merger of Harvard College and former women's college, Radcliffe College. She, along with the executive board of the college, merged the two institutions and founded the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She became the executive dean of the newly founded institute and a frequently lectured at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. While at Harvard she ended the Early Action Program, initiated the Task Force on the Arts along with Harvard president Drew Faust and increased financial aid dramatically. Already widely considered as one of the most influential figures at Harvard, in 2005 she was appointed vice president for policy at Harvard University, serving until her appointment as president of Bates College in 2012.[11][12]

Bates College

Inauguration

Spencer speaking at the 50th Reunion Class of 1964 Breakfast

On Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, Spencer was installed as the eighth and second female president of Bates College, in Lewiston, Maine.[13] Her inauguration speech, “Questions worth asking” drew 2,500 students, faculty, alumni, and distinguished members of the American collegiate educational system in Merrill Gymnasium.[14]

Spencer delivered her installation address, saying:

At Bates, we claim this union of excellence and opportunity as a core element of our identity, and we need to continue to build on this deep aspect of who we are. As a practical matter this means redoubling our efforts to recruit students from a wide range of backgrounds, and it means maintaining an unwavering commitment to financial aid.[15]

Spencer assumed the presidency after the first female and 7th president of college, Elaine Tuttle Hansen stepped down after a nine-year tenure as the college's president. Spencer's decision to leave Harvard University was the subject of an article by The New York Times.[4]

Presidency (2012 - present)

Endowment and fundraising

Spencer assumed an endowment that was heavily impacted by the 2007-08 financial crisis and market volatility, thus reporting negative returns in the first two years. During her first year as president, 2012, Spencer raised $12.2 million in donations.[16] At the conclusion of the second semester of the 2012/13 academic year, the Bates College Board of Trustees announced a totaled pool donation of $11.5 million to start the Catalyst Fund. Spencer would go on to expand the financial aid program by expending more of the college's endowment and indirect funding.[17] In the 2013 fiscal year, the college reported Spencer's fundraising totaled $12 million.[18] In 2014, Spencer introduced the option to donate securites, and saw a total of $16 million donated in the completed fiscal year.[19]

In May 2015, Spencer's fundraising prompted Moody's Investors Service to update the college's $24 million revenue bonds to an A1 rating.[20] During the capital cycle of 2015, Spencer raised $21.6 million, $5.6 million more than the year before. On March 31, 2015, Spencer raised $250,000, the most ever secured in 24 hours by the college.[21]

With the start of the 2016 academic year, she appointed committees to expand the college's curriculum, after a donation of $19 million was given to fund new areas of study and support incoming professors in the computer sciences.[22] In the 2016 fiscal year, Spencer's team in the Office of College Advancement raised $28.2 million, which broke the 2006 record and marked the third year the college's fundraising has increased by 30 percent annually.[23]

Academic outreach

Spencer ordered changes to the Short Term Program in late 2013, by creating Practitioner-Taught Courses and redesigned course structure.[24] At the 2014 White House Summit on College Opportunity, Spencer joined other U.S. higher education executives to meet with President Obama. She used the event to highlight the college's financial aid program, and recent donations, as well as calling for educational and financial reform.[25] A year later in her comments on a proposed college ranking system was profiled in an article by the Wall Street Journal.[26] On October 2015, WRBC interviewed Spencer on the changes to the Short Term Program and her career with regard to her coming to Bates from Harvard.[27] In June 2015, Spencer hosted a panel discussion New York City, to speak at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art. Her event drew 2,100 viewers online and Bates College alumni Bryant Gumbel and Michael Chu. The off-campus event was one of the most attended in the history of the college.[28]

Spencer was profiled by Inside Higher Education in February 2016, where she stressed the college's established Digital and Computational Studies program and the importance of computer science in a liberal arts education.[29] The announcement of the new area of study was profiled by MPBN earlier that month.[29]

In April 2016, she was interviewed by TIME Magazine, along with Dean of Admission and Financial Aid, Leigh Weisenburger. The two outlined college admissions in the coming academic years.[30] In June 2016, Spencer was interviewed on New England Cable News' CEO Corner, where she outlined the college's history and the importance of a liberal arts education in a knowledge-based economy.[31]

On November 21, 2016, Spencer signed along with 250 other university presidents, a statement to the U.S. Congress and other elected officials to continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program at universities.[32][33] The statement was prompted after Donald Trump asserted that his administration would terminate the program—​​Spencer noted the DACA as "both a moral imperative and a national necessity."[34]

Student life

Students participated in a late-night social event where seniors hosted themed parties in their off-campus houses which included underclassman touring the different houses and sampling various drinks.[35][36] Spencer banned the tradition in 2014, citing "hundreds of noise complaints", student safety, underage drinking, multiple instances of destruction of property, student arrests, and student-police violence.[37][38][39] Her choice to do so was widely criticized by student newspapers in the NESCAC and covered by multiple journals of higher education.[40][41][42][43] Spencer went on to announce that more funding was to be allocated for late-night programming stating, "part of the job is figuring out what the alternatives are."[44]

In March 2015, the Bates College Student Government's Representative Assembly passed a nearly unanimous vote-of-no-confidence against Spencer and her Vice-President of Student Affairs, Joshua McIntosh.[45] The vote was in response to her decision to suspend and eventually terminate an employment contract with a member of the college's staff. Students representatives charged the administration with violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.[45] Spencer noted the student's withdrawal of confidence and stated, "recent events confirm what I know to be true — that students care deeply about this college, as do faculty and staff on campus, and alumni of every generation. Students also rightly want and expect to be included in the discussions and decisions that shape their own experience and the way the college moves forward."[46] In late 2015, she received applicants that were the strongest academically and most diverse in the history of the college,[1] increased the market value of the school's endowment. With the newer students adding to residential density, Spencer moved to construct two new LEED-certified residential dorms to house the first years of the 2017 academic calendar. The Campus Avenue Project saw the construction of Kalperis Hall and Chu Hall, which opened at the start of the 2016-17 academic year.[47][48]

In an interview with The Bates Student, Spencer said she implemented regular office hours and mentioned that her administration created the "Campus Culture Working Group", tasked with changing campus culture for the better. As of 2016, Spencer outlined, that nearly all institutional policy passed has student input. When asked about the increasing tuition rates presented at the college, she stated that they were in line with inflation and the modernizing economy.[49]

On November 7, 2016, a day before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, it was revealed by a Bates student that local Lewiston townspeople were distributing flyers inside the college which asserted that in order to vote in the upcoming election, students were required to change their driver's licence to feature a Lewiston residency and re-register any vehicles students had in the city.[50] Under 2016-17 Maine State law it is not required to complete anything described on the flyer, which lead Spencer to label the situation as "clearly a deliberate attempt at voter suppression,"[51] sparking state-wide backlash from local politicians.[52][53][54] Governor of Maine, Paul LePage asserted the flyer's validity stating "Democrats for decades have encouraged college students from out of state to vote in Maine, even though there is no way to determine whether these college students also voted in their home states."[53] Spencer's comments were reiterated and supported by the Maine Democratic Party leader, Phil Bartlett, and Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap.[52][55]

Outside of the presidency

In April 2015, Spencer was appointed to the American Council on Education, "the nation’s largest and most influential advocacy organization representing colleges and universities."[56] Her appointment was commented on by the council's president saying: "[Spencer] has been a part of almost every major discussion involving higher education policy over the last 20 years, her work on Capitol Hill, at Harvard and now at Bates gives her a unique and important perspective — particularly during this time of dynamic change in higher education. We are extremely pleased to have Clayton join the board and greatly appreciate her commitment to helping guide the work of ACE."[56] Her term on the board is set to expire in 2018.

Spencer has been elected numerous boards and committees, most notably Williams College and Phillips Exeter Academy.[57][58]

Public image

Due to her national prominence in U.S. higher education, her installation drew 2,500 students, faculty, alumni, and distinguished members of the American collegiate educational system to Lewiston.[14]

She was profiled by Williams College by their institutional magazine, when asked about her attendance of Williams she stated:

My notion was very naive, my 18-year-old self was thinking, ‘Thank God we’ve got this equality problem solved [referring to her attendance of Williams in its first year of being coeducational], college had opened up for me just in the nick of time, and I thought that when I got older, everything would be even-steven, split right down the middle. This was my fundamental error, thinking that a switch had been flipped rather than understanding that feminism was a broad cultural movement that would require decades.[59]

In her capacity as an academic administrator at Harvard University, Spencer has been noted for her collaborative approach and effectiveness by The Harvard Crimson, and other media publications. Often referred to as "the Right Hand Woman",[60] she was considered one of the most influential figures at Harvard, behind its President Drew Gilpin Faust. When asked about her work ethic and leadership style, U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd said "there are groups where people care about things but nobody is willing to do the work. Clayton is willing to do the work.”[60]

In 2014, Spencer was named among "Maine's 50 Most Influential People" list by Maine, the magazine. The publication noted that at Bates she was able to "contribute to the remarkable heritage of an institution that has stood for the ideals of opportunity and justice since the time of its founding," later commenting: "there could be no more perfect match.”"[61]

Personal life

Spencer resides in Lewiston, Maine. Spencer was married to United States Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, with whom she has two children, William and Ava Carter.[62]

Awards and honors

References

Citations

  1. 1 2 "Students admitted to the Class of 2019 are the academically strongest, most diverse in Bates history | News | Bates College". www.bates.edu. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
  2. 1 2 3 "Wow! Clayton Spencer begins a new relationship with her new college | News | Bates College". www.bates.edu. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
  3. ↑ "Clayton Spencer". themainemag.com. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
  4. 1 2 The New York Times (2011-12-04). "Clayton Spencer, Harvard Vice President, to Lead Bates College". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
  5. ↑ Woz, Markus (2002). Traditionally Unconventional. Ladd Library, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine: Bates College. p. 6.
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  14. 1 2 "'Questions Worth Asking' — President Clayton Spencer's inaugural address | News | Bates College". www.bates.edu. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
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  16. ↑ Bates College Common Data Set 2012 (PDF).
  17. ↑ "$11.5 million Catalyst Fund will support 'transformational change' at Bates College". www.bates.edu. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
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  19. ↑ "Report of Giving 2014 | Bates College". www.bates.edu. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
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Further reading

  • Alfred, Williams Anthony. Bates College and Its Background. (1936) Online Deposit.
  • Stuan, Thomas. The Architecture of Bates College. (2006)
  • Chase, Harry. Bates College was named after Mansfield Man. (1878)
  • Woz, Markus. Bates College – Traditionally Unconventional. (2002)
  • Bates College Archives. Bates College Catalog. (1956–2017). 2017 Catalog.
  • Bates College Archives. Maine State Seminary Records. Online Deposit.
  • Bates College Archives. Bates College Oral History Project. Online Deposit.
  • Clark, Charles E. Bates Through the Years: an Illustrated History. (2005)
  • Smith, Dana. Bates College – U. S. Navy V-12 Program Collection. (1943) Online Deposit.
  • Eaton, Mabel. General Catalogue of Bates College and Cobb Divinity School. (1930)
  • Larson, Timothy. Faith by Their Works: The Progressive Tradition at Bates College. (2005)
  • Calhoun, Charles C. A Small College in Maine. p. 163. (1993)
  • Johnnett, R. F. Bates Student: A Monthly Magazine. (1878)
  • Phillips, F. Charles Bates College in Maine: Enduring Strength and Scholarship. Issue 245. (1952)
  • Dormin J. Ettrude, Edith M. Phelps, Julia Emily Johnsen. French Occupation of the Ruhr: Bates College Versus Oxford Union Society of Oxford College. (1923)
  • The Bates Student. The Voice of Bates College. (1873–2017)
  • Emeline Cheney; Burlingame, Aldrich. The story of the life and work of Oren Burbank Cheney, founder and first president of Bates College. (1907) Online Version.

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Preceded by
Elaine Tuttle Hansen		 President of Bates College
2012–present 		Succeeded by
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