Shortly after Courtney Smith joined Bates in the fall of 2024 as an associate professor of theater, he floated an idea for a ...

A selection of recent mentions of Bates people in the news, including coverage of a mother-daughter basketball record, an ...

At the 20th annual Trashion Show, students and faculty modeled 16 elaborate runway designs crafted from trash to draw ...

Bates Swim & Dive opened the season with two great meets against Wheaton and Wesleyan – and with no surprise, the Bobcats ...

In “Economic Sociology,” Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology Francesco Duina presents students with a social and philosophical question. “I ask, ‘How many of you like a lot of inequality?’ Usually ...

To establish secure password requirements aligned with best practices and current National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidelines, ensuring protection of Bates College’s information ...

To establish first-time parent access in the payment portal, your student must log into the portal using their Bates credentials and add you as an authorized user. You’ll then receive an email ...

The first gifts to support Bates College reflected donors’ hope for the future. Seth and Mary Hathorn gave Oren Cheney $5,000 to build Hathorn Hall with the hope that their gift would “do good” for ...

As Mara Tieken was beginning her teaching career in 2002, she pulled out a map of the U.S. Carefully considering where she, as a new elementary school teacher, would land, Tieken gazed past urban ...

Assistant Professor Environmental Studies Tyler Austin Harper is also a contributing writer for The Atlantic, where he tackles topics related to politics, race, culture, higher education and personal ...

The vote by the Bates faculty, 40 years ago in the Filene Room in Pettigrew Hall, wasn’t even close: 58–27 in favor of making the submission of SAT scores optional for admission. It was the vote heard ...