Slide show features 2010 President for a Day
Nayder entertains Hansen after class.
Hansen carefully considers the comments of a student.
At the end of a long day, Koerbel and Hansen meet in the president's Lane Hall office to compare notes.
Hansen admires an apron sewn by Kimberly Liaw '12 for the mainstage production of "You Can't Take It With You."
Hansen receives instructions for making a scarf from theater costume shop supervisor Kathy Peters. Pleased with Hansen's work, Peters later quipped, "I'd hire her."
• View the slide show by clicking the thumbnails. Photographs by Phyllis Graber Jensen
Day Tripper
President for a Day at Bates annually has a student (Margaret Koerber ’10 of New Orleans this year) tending to Elaine Tuttle Hansen’s to-do list while President Hansen experiences the student’s typical day.
“I think one of the most important capacities we aim to teach at a liberal arts college is how to see things from multiple perspectives, and it’s also one of the hardest things we ask people to do,” says Hansen. “So a primary reason for this little experiment in trading places with a student is to give myself an opportunity to see from a very different perspective what Bates looks like on any given day.”
