Stories about "Service"
Patriotic million-hoop quest by Dave Cummings '89 gains national media attention
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 12:34 pm
Last October, Dave Cummings ’89 landed on the front page of USA…
Harward Center honors 15 persons and organizations for community work
Thursday, May 5, 2011 4:10 pm
The Harward Center for Community Partnerships at Bates College has honored 15 individuals and organizations for their achievements in community collaboration. Rooted in the academic purpose of Bates, the Harward Center is a focal point for teaching and learning that connects academic and community interests. Reflecting this mission, recipients of Harward Center awards connect Bates with the larger community through collaboration, research and service.
Bates anthropologist, student honored for community work
Friday, April 29, 2011 2:23 pm
The Maine Campus Compact has honored a Bates College senior and a member of the college's anthropology faculty for their commitment to public engagement. Visiting Instructor of Anthropology Heather Lindkvist is one of five college faculty in Maine to receive the Donald Harward Award for Faculty Service-Learning Excellence. Jessica Igoe, an economics major and education minor from Lexington, Mass., was one of four students at Maine colleges honored with the Heart and Soul Award, recognizing exemplary civic engagement.
Bates hosts community forum for labor leaders, Latino immigrants
Thursday, April 28, 2011 10:44 am
Bates presents a community forum for local labor leaders and Latino immigrants…
Bates launches EcoService Day with green projects on, off campus
Monday, April 25, 2011 9:13 am
From the shores of the Androscoggin River to the slopes of Bradbury Mountain, dozens of Bates College students, staff and faculty will fan out through Lewiston-Auburn and beyond on Saturday, April 30, to give the environment a helping hand.
Bates a top school for ROI, says Bloomberg Businessweek
Thursday, April 14, 2011 3:05 pm
Bloomberg Businessweek and PayScale say Bates is best in Maine and in top 12 percent of U.S. colleges and universities for return on investment.
Porst '11 receives Projects for Peace award to build first school in a remote Andean community
Friday, April 8, 2011 4:33 pm
During a community dinner on the eve of her departure from a remote Peruvian community, Hannah Porst '11 asked residents of this mountain village how she could thank them for their hospitality. What we really need, they told her, is a school. Now Porst has received a $10,000 Projects for Peace grant -- covering a third of the cost of her initiative and making it possible for the school to be built this summer.
Press Herald profiles Maine 'treasure' Sawin Millett '59
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 10:10 am
The Portland Press Herald profiles Sawin Millett ’59, the commissioner of the…
Orchestra concert raises funds for quake-ravaged Japanese town
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 9:57 am
Hiroya Miura, conductor of the Bates College Orchestra and a native of…
The Rev. Peter Gomes '65, a 'joyous man,' remembered in Chapel observance
Monday, March 7, 2011 3:08 pm
The mourners who gathered in the Chapel today to remember the Rev.…