Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college ...

In this week’s blog post, we direct your attention to the Bates College Facebook page, which features a wonderful post about the college’s participation in this year’s Dempsey Challenge. For those who ...

Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college ...

Marshall Hatch ’10 received a lot of texts on Sept. 30. Not surprising, given that at the crack of dawn, Time magazine ...

Staff at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library love giving walking tours of the campus. They function ...

Bates College will waive the admission application fee, beginning with the Fall 2025 pool of applicants. Previously, domestic applicants paid a $65 application fee but could request to have that fee ...

We hope you’ve had a wonderful summer! As the fall semester approaches, here are some important dates and reminders to help your students ease back into campus life. If you’d like to connect with our ...

Leigh Weisenburger, who has led the Bates admission and financial aid program since 2012, will become vice president for institutional affairs and secretary to the Board of Trustees, effective July 1, ...

At the start of her Bates Commencement address, Angela Duckworth asked President Garry W. Jenkins to hold her phone, to avoid potential distractions. Then, Duckworth asked Jenkins to give her his ...

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 ...

On Wednesday afternoon, just as Kamala Harris began her concession speech at Howard University, three Bates politics professors talked about the various outcomes and implications of Tuesday’s election ...