Biographer of the Rev. Benjamin Mays ’20 to speak at Bates

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 March 22, 2013 11:30 am	Biographer of the Rev. Benjamin Mays ’20 to speak at Bates Bates presents award-winning Benjamin Mays biographer Randal Maurice Jelks on March 25.
Tuesday February 5, 2013 4:19 pm	CANCELED: Feb. 11 talk by author of ‘Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome’ Please watch bates.edu/events for information about a new date for DeGruy.
Wednesday December 19, 2012 9:51 am	As nation ponders rich-poor divide, King Day observances to explore debt and inequality Spotlighting a less-known aspect of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s work, King Day at Bates will explore issues of economic justice.
Monday November 12, 2012 6:49 am	Veteran of Chavez-era United Farm Workers campaigns to give Andrews Lecture Marshall Ganz, a public policy expert at Harvard, delivers the annual Andrews Lecture on Nov. 14.
Tuesday October 2, 2012 10:07 am	Former Maine labor commissioner to discuss Frances Perkins, first female Cabinet member Laura Fortman, Maine’s former commissioner of labor, gives the lecture “Frances Perkins: New Deal Legacy and Lessons for Today” on Oct. 10.
Wednesday August 8, 2012 10:00 am	Past is prologue, says new Muskie Archives director Pat Webber The archives supports the academic community by keeping one foot in the past and one in the present.
Tuesday June 5, 2012 12:44 pm	In NAACP project, students get fresh lesson in value of old papers Thanks to a two-year collaboration among the Portland branch of the NAACP, the University of Southern Maine and Bates, valuable papers of the Portland branch are being made accessible to researchers and the public for the first time.
Wednesday March 14, 2012 3:30 pm	Plastas book explores prejudice, progress in women’s activism between world wars Plastas book explores prejudice, progress in women’s activism between world wars
Monday March 12, 2012 11:08 am	Press Herald interviews historian Miller ’96 on early civil rights movement The Portland Press Herald’s Ray Routhier offers a Q&A interview with Eben Miller ’96, whose book Born Along the Color…
Thursday February 9, 2012 8:37 am	For Unity Conference, Amandla! presents expert on racial wealth gap An expert on public policy and racial inequality, Thomas Shapiro speaks on the racial wealth gap on Feb. 11.

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Bates presents award-winning Benjamin Mays biographer Randal Maurice Jelks on March 25.

CANCELED: Feb. 11 talk by author of ‘Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome’

Please watch bates.edu/events for information about a new date for DeGruy.

As nation ponders rich-poor divide, King Day observances to explore debt and inequality

Spotlighting a less-known aspect of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s work, King Day at Bates will explore issues of economic justice.

Veteran of Chavez-era United Farm Workers campaigns to give Andrews Lecture

Marshall Ganz, a public policy expert at Harvard, delivers the annual Andrews Lecture on Nov. 14.

Former Maine labor commissioner to discuss Frances Perkins, first female Cabinet member

Laura Fortman, Maine’s former commissioner of labor, gives the lecture “Frances Perkins: New Deal Legacy and Lessons for Today” on Oct. 10.

Past is prologue, says new Muskie Archives director Pat Webber

The archives supports the academic community by keeping one foot in the past and one in the present.

In NAACP project, students get fresh lesson in value of old papers

Thanks to a two-year collaboration among the Portland branch of the NAACP, the University of Southern Maine and Bates, valuable papers of the Portland branch are being made accessible to researchers and the public for the first time.