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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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Monday December 10, 2012 10:23 am	Video: ‘Nothing in the World That You Cannot Do’ — MLK Day’s Sankofa performance Alex Bolden ’15 prepares Bates artists for the annual Sankofa performance on Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2013.
Saturday September 17, 2011 1:13 pm	September 2011 images of Bates Click on thumbnails, above, to view the slide show. Featured image of the month The Gospelaires perform during “September 11,…
Thursday September 15, 2011 12:01 pm	President of Spelman College to discuss racial identity development and college communities Beverly Daniel Tatum, president of Spelman College and author of the book “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” visits Bates to discuss her work in racial identity development and its impact on campus communities at noon Friday, Sept. 16, at the Benjamin Mays Center, 95 Russell St. To learn more, please email rdavis@bates.edu.
Tuesday May 3, 2011 11:47 am	Athlete Ally pledge signing wraps up Pride Festival The Bates College student group OUTfront hosts the first Bates Pride Festival, starting with an outdoor concert at noon Thursday, May 5, on the lawn at the student residence at 280 College St.
Friday August 27, 2010 2:00 pm	Students Still Love the Sixties What is it about the ’60s that inspires students? In April 1960, a group of Bates students picketed Woolworth’s in…
Friday March 12, 2010 3:21 pm	Chamber group to celebrate lives of three legendary Latina women The Core Ensemble, a chamber group that has used theater to push out the boundaries of its genre, presents a work celebrating the lives of three significant Latin American women Friday, March 26, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at Bates College.
Friday March 12, 2010 10:21 am	Sociologist to speak on black Appalachian life and culture William H. Turner, who holds the National Endowment for the Humanities Chair in Appalachian Studies at Berea College, offers a lecture titled Blacks in Appalachia: Past, Present and Future at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 24, in the Benjamin Mays Center, 95 Russell St. Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, this event is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please call 207-786-8376.
Friday February 12, 2010 9:39 am	Activists to discuss indigenous politics, environmentalism in the Americas at Bates College The politics and environmental interests of indigenous peoples in the Americas, including Native Americans from Maine, are at issue in two nights of panel discussions at Bates College at Monday, Feb. 22 and Tuesday, Feb. 23.
Friday February 12, 2010 9:30 am	Quince Duncan, acclaimed Costa Rican author and Afro-Caribbean activist, to speak at Bates College Quince Duncan, Afro-Caribbean author and activist, will speak at Bates College Thursday, Feb. 25, in the Benjamin Mays Center, 95 Russell St.
Wednesday February 10, 2010 2:46 pm	Mayor of Port-au-Prince district to speak at Bates Wilson Louis, mayor of Cité Soleil, a district of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, speaks on “Cité Soleil and the Haitian Nation: Moving Forward” in the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at Bates College, 75 Russell St.

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Video: ‘Nothing in the World That You Cannot Do’ — MLK Day’s Sankofa performance

Alex Bolden ’15 prepares Bates artists for the annual Sankofa performance on Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2013.

September 2011 images of Bates

Click on thumbnails, above, to view the slide show. Featured image of the month The Gospelaires perform during “September 11,…

President of Spelman College to discuss racial identity development and college communities

Beverly Daniel Tatum, president of Spelman College and author of the book “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” visits Bates to discuss her work in racial identity development and its impact on campus communities at noon Friday, Sept. 16, at the Benjamin Mays Center, 95 Russell St. To learn more, please email rdavis@bates.edu.

Tuesday

May 3, 2011
11:47 am

Athlete Ally pledge signing wraps up Pride Festival

The Bates College student group OUTfront hosts the first Bates Pride Festival, starting with an outdoor concert at noon Thursday, May 5, on the lawn at the student residence at 280 College St.

Friday

August 27, 2010
2:00 pm

Students Still Love the Sixties

What is it about the ’60s that inspires students? In April 1960, a group of Bates students picketed Woolworth’s in…

Friday

March 12, 2010
3:21 pm

Chamber group to celebrate lives of three legendary Latina women

The Core Ensemble, a chamber group that has used theater to push out the boundaries of its genre, presents a work celebrating the lives of three significant Latin American women Friday, March 26, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at Bates College.

Friday

March 12, 2010
10:21 am

Sociologist to speak on black Appalachian life and culture

William H. Turner, who holds the National Endowment for the Humanities Chair in Appalachian Studies at Berea College, offers a lecture titled Blacks in Appalachia: Past, Present and Future at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 24, in the Benjamin Mays Center, 95 Russell St. Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, this event is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please call 207-786-8376.

Friday

February 12, 2010
9:30 am

Quince Duncan, acclaimed Costa Rican author and Afro-Caribbean activist, to speak at Bates College

Quince Duncan, Afro-Caribbean author and activist, will speak at Bates College Thursday, Feb. 25, in the Benjamin Mays Center, 95 Russell St.

Wednesday

February 10, 2010
2:46 pm

Mayor of Port-au-Prince district to speak at Bates

Wilson Louis, mayor of Cité Soleil, a district of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, speaks on “Cité Soleil and the Haitian Nation: Moving Forward” in the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at Bates College, 75 Russell St.