Maine Campus Compact honors two for civic involvement

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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Friday April 26, 2013 11:01 am	Maine Campus Compact honors two for civic involvement Maine Campus Compact will honor two members of the Bates community for their commitment to public involvement.
Monday January 14, 2013 1:14 pm	Audio Slide Show: ‘Blessed and Dancing’ — Victoria Lowe’s goal of arts and education Victoria Lowe ’12 discusses her Short Term dance experience and her goal of advancing arts education in the schools.
Wednesday August 31, 2011 10:40 am	Mara Tieken, assistant professor of education Tieken researches how rural public schools shape their communities and, in particular, those schools’ influence on racial dynamics. A former public schoolteacher in rural Tennessee, Tieken says she is “continually stunned by how overlooked rural schools are in educational policymaking.”
Wednesday August 31, 2011 10:19 am	Bates appoints tenure-track faculty in politics, English, education Bates’ commitment to social justice, its stated values of diversity and equity, and its innovative teaching were all factors that drew three scholars to join the faculty for the 2011-12 academic year. These potentially tenured faculty members have added to our knowledge about political antagonism toward federal courts, the role of the body in Arab American and African American literature, and the cultural and community functions of rural schools.
Thursday November 18, 2010 2:32 pm	John J. Margarones '48, professor emeritus of education, dies at 87 Professor Emeritus of Education John J. Margarones ’48, who helped to transform teacher education at Bates from a classroom-based endeavor…
Tuesday October 20, 2009 6:34 pm	Newsweek calls on President Hansen for roundtable on higher education For its October 26, 2009 cover story, Newsweek magazine called on President Elaine Tuttle Hansen and four other thought leaders in American higher education to “debate the merits of a three-year degree and assess the state of higher education.”
Wednesday July 1, 2009 11:19 am	Forms of Resonance From encounters with the MRI, a surprising inspiration
Friday February 27, 2009 1:47 pm	Authority on diversity in higher education to speak at Bates College Sylvia Hurtado, an expert on student educational outcomes and diversity in higher education, visits Bates College to give a talk titled “Preparing College Students for a Diverse Democracy”.
Friday January 30, 2009 3:15 pm	University of Iowa will help with development of future leaders In an opinion column in the The Des Moines Register, Scott King ’75, director of the Office of International Students and Scholars at the University of Iowa, wrote about his trip to Iraq for an education forum, where he and other higher-education leaders discussed the country’s plan to send 10,000 Iraqi college students to the U.S. and other English-speaking nations in each of the next five years.
Tuesday December 4, 2001 3:46 pm	Lewiston Middle School hosts 'Diversity Day' for preschoolers Under the direction of a Bates College junior and two Lewiston Middle School (LMS) teachers, a group of eighth graders will host a hands-on “Diversity Day” for 30 preschoolers Wednesday, Dec. 5, in the Lewiston Middle School Library.

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Maine Campus Compact will honor two members of the Bates community for their commitment to public involvement.

Audio Slide Show: ‘Blessed and Dancing’ — Victoria Lowe’s goal of arts and education

Victoria Lowe ’12 discusses her Short Term dance experience and her goal of advancing arts education in the schools.

Mara Tieken, assistant professor of education

Tieken researches how rural public schools shape their communities and, in particular, those schools’ influence on racial dynamics. A former public schoolteacher in rural Tennessee, Tieken says she is “continually stunned by how overlooked rural schools are in educational policymaking.”

Wednesday

August 31, 2011
10:19 am

Bates appoints tenure-track faculty in politics, English, education

Bates’ commitment to social justice, its stated values of diversity and equity, and its innovative teaching were all factors that drew three scholars to join the faculty for the 2011-12 academic year. These potentially tenured faculty members have added to our knowledge about political antagonism toward federal courts, the role of the body in Arab American and African American literature, and the cultural and community functions of rural schools.

Thursday

November 18, 2010
2:32 pm

John J. Margarones '48, professor emeritus of education, dies at 87

Professor Emeritus of Education John J. Margarones ’48, who helped to transform teacher education at Bates from a classroom-based endeavor…

Tuesday

October 20, 2009
6:34 pm

Newsweek calls on President Hansen for roundtable on higher education

For its October 26, 2009 cover story, Newsweek magazine called on President Elaine Tuttle Hansen and four other thought leaders in American higher education to “debate the merits of a three-year degree and assess the state of higher education.”

Wednesday

July 1, 2009
11:19 am

Forms of Resonance

From encounters with the MRI, a surprising inspiration

Friday

February 27, 2009
1:47 pm

Authority on diversity in higher education to speak at Bates College

Sylvia Hurtado, an expert on student educational outcomes and diversity in higher education, visits Bates College to give a talk titled “Preparing College Students for a Diverse Democracy”.

Friday

January 30, 2009
3:15 pm

University of Iowa will help with development of future leaders

In an opinion column in the The Des Moines Register, Scott King ’75, director of the Office of International Students and Scholars at the University of Iowa, wrote about his trip to Iraq for an education forum, where he and other higher-education leaders discussed the country’s plan to send 10,000 Iraqi college students to the U.S. and other English-speaking nations in each of the next five years.

Tuesday

December 4, 2001
3:46 pm

Lewiston Middle School hosts 'Diversity Day' for preschoolers

Under the direction of a Bates College junior and two Lewiston Middle School (LMS) teachers, a group of eighth graders will host a hands-on “Diversity Day” for 30 preschoolers Wednesday, Dec. 5, in the Lewiston Middle School Library.