Stories from September 2011
For parents during Orientation, a school bus parable
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 10:40 am
A highlight of the Parent Orientation was a story shared by Roland Davis '92, director of the Office of Intercultural Education. In urging parents to turn their kids loose, Davis told of how he learned to give his young daughter some independence as she began kindergarten.
New students find the appeal of green at Orientation
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 10:25 am
"We have had steady business, and that's great," sustainability coordinator Julie Rosenbach said about the materials she offered at Orientation about "green" programs at Bates.
Boston Globe explores the life of David Aschauer; services set for Saturday
Friday, September 2, 2011 6:31 pm
In a touching and insightful story, The Boston Globe explores the unexpected…
New York Times invites Douglass' commentary on eyewitness reliability
Friday, September 2, 2011 3:19 pm
For its “Room for Debate” feature, The New York Times invites several…
Talks about drawings, Wyeths to close museum's summer shows; Alvarez Bravo exhibition to open
Friday, September 2, 2011 3:02 pm
Even as it readies a new display of images by a seminal Mexican photographer, the Bates College Museum of Art offers a series of talks to conclude its summer exhibitions.
Rapper Macklemore and his DJ/producer, Ryan Lewis, to perform outdoor show
Friday, September 2, 2011 2:22 pm
Fresh from their triumphant national touring debut as headliners, Seattle rapper Macklemore and his DJ producer, Ryan Lewis, visit Bates College for an open-air performance on the Library Quad, accessed from Campus Avenue between Chase Hall and the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, at 8 p.m.Friday, Sept. 16.
Ready, set, welcome: Nine behind-the-scenes stories about the new Bates year
Friday, September 2, 2011 11:22 am
After the first-year students and their trip leaders headed off on their…
The Class of 2015, by the numbers
Thursday, September 1, 2011 2:59 pm
Enrollment figures will not be final until Oct. 1, but Bates currently anticipates a class of 264 women and 242 men, selected from 5,196 applicants, the largest pool in the college's history (up 15 percent from the previous year).
Francesco Duina and the Convocation keynote
Thursday, September 1, 2011 2:56 pm
In his 2011 Convocation keynote address, Professor of Sociology Francesco Duina will…
Interim President Nancy J. Cable
Thursday, September 1, 2011 2:51 pm
By unanimous vote of the Bates College Board of Trustees, Nancy J. Cable was appointed interim president of Bates College April 12, 2011, and assumed her duties on July 1, 2011. Bates has begun a national search for its next president, who will begin service to the college on or before July 1, 2012.