Slide show features 2011 Baccalaureate photos

The Bobcat looks forward to May 15, when Bates seeks 555 additional alumni donors to the Bates Fund in one day. Photo by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College

Alumni make May 15 a “great day”

Post by: Victoria Stanton on Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Bates reaches 599 new alumni donors to the Bates Fund in one day.

Matthew Auer, Indiana University honors dean, named Bates College vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty

Post by: Bates News on Monday, May 13, 2013

A leading scholar and globally engaged expert, Auer is also a dynamic and effective academic leader, said Bates President Clayton Spencer.

Bates expects to award bachelor's degree to approximately 450 students, representing 35 U.S. states and 28 countries, on May 26. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College.

2013 Commencement honorary degrees announced; address by Stonyfield Farm’s Gary Hirshberg

Post by: Bates News on Tuesday, April 23, 2013

The honorary degree candidates “show us how the values that define the Bates experience can shape, and take shape in, the world,” said President Spencer.

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Tuesday May 31, 2011 4:51 pm	Slide show features 2011 Baccalaureate photos * View the slide show below by clicking the thumbnails. Graduates and their families enjoyed the annual Baccalaureate service, a…
Tuesday May 31, 2011 4:48 pm	Slide show features 2011 Commencement day photographs * View the slide show by clicking the thumbnails. Always uplifting, the 2011 Commencement ceremony had a conversational, convivial spirit,…
Tuesday May 31, 2011 4:01 pm	Video: Seniors of 2011 reflect on defining Bates moments Each Commencement season, we share brief videos of Bates seniors reflecting on their Bates experience. These comments come from a…
Tuesday May 31, 2011 3:37 pm	Video: Looking back, Margaret Cadden '11 reflects on the ebb and flow of Bates life Each Commencement season, we offer brief videos of Bates seniors reflecting on their Bates experience. Here, Margaret Cadden ’11 of…
Tuesday May 31, 2011 3:35 pm	Video: Looking back, Uriel Gonzalez '11 reflects on 'what makes Bates' Each Commencement season, we offer brief videos of Bates seniors reflecting on their Bates experience. Here, Uriel Gonzalez ’11 of…
Tuesday May 31, 2011 3:33 pm	Video: Looking back, Drew Gallagher '11 reflects on an admission tour's happy ending Each Commencement season, we offer brief videos of Bates seniors reflecting on their Bates experience. Here, Admission fellow Drew Gallagher…
Tuesday May 31, 2011 3:31 pm	Video: Looking back, Ben McCall '11 reflects on the Maine connection Each Commencement season, we offer brief videos of Bates seniors reflecting on their Bates experience. Here, Ben McCall ’11 of…
Sunday May 29, 2011 3:24 pm	Commencement report: The only failure is the failure to persist “You will fail — you should fail,” Evelynn Hammonds, dean of Harvard College, told the Bates College class of 2011 on May 29. “But if you stick with it, and let your peculiarities become assets, you will succeed.” Hammond, who is also a historian of science and professor of African American studies at Harvard, was one of three honorary degree recipients who spoke at the college’s 145th commencement. The others were Frank Glazer, a pianist of international renown and member of the Bates music faculty, and Robert Langer, an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a highly prolific inventor of healthcare technologies.
Sunday May 29, 2011 2:32 pm	Video: President Hansen offers Commencement 2011 welcome In President Elaine Tuttle Hansen’s Commencement welcome, she says that founders of Bates would easily recognize the graduates’ shared values…
Sunday May 29, 2011 1:41 pm	Video: Commencement 2011 honorand remarks Video of Commencement 2011 remarks by honorary degree recipients: Frank Glazer, pianist and Bates artist in residence Evelynn Hammonds, scholar…

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* View the slide show below by clicking the thumbnails. Graduates and their families enjoyed the annual Baccalaureate service, a…

Slide show features 2011 Commencement day photographs

* View the slide show by clicking the thumbnails. Always uplifting, the 2011 Commencement ceremony had a conversational, convivial spirit,…

Video: Seniors of 2011 reflect on defining Bates moments

Each Commencement season, we share brief videos of Bates seniors reflecting on their Bates experience. These comments come from a…

Video: Looking back, Margaret Cadden '11 reflects on the ebb and flow of Bates life

Each Commencement season, we offer brief videos of Bates seniors reflecting on their Bates experience. Here, Margaret Cadden ’11 of…

Video: Looking back, Uriel Gonzalez '11 reflects on 'what makes Bates'

Each Commencement season, we offer brief videos of Bates seniors reflecting on their Bates experience. Here, Uriel Gonzalez ’11 of…

Video: Looking back, Drew Gallagher '11 reflects on an admission tour's happy ending

Each Commencement season, we offer brief videos of Bates seniors reflecting on their Bates experience. Here, Admission fellow Drew Gallagher…

Video: Looking back, Ben McCall '11 reflects on the Maine connection

Each Commencement season, we offer brief videos of Bates seniors reflecting on their Bates experience. Here, Ben McCall ’11 of…

Commencement report: The only failure is the failure to persist

“You will fail — you should fail,” Evelynn Hammonds, dean of Harvard College, told the Bates College class of 2011 on May 29. “But if you stick with it, and let your peculiarities become assets, you will succeed.”
Hammond, who is also a historian of science and professor of African American studies at Harvard, was one of three honorary degree recipients who spoke at the college’s 145th commencement. The others were Frank Glazer, a pianist of international renown and member of the Bates music faculty, and Robert Langer, an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a highly prolific inventor of healthcare technologies.