Stories about "Justice and poverty"
Visionary educator Geoffrey Canada to deliver 2017 Commencement address, joining honorands Sen. Susan Collins, Wanda Corn, and Patrick Dempsey
Thursday, April 13, 2017 2:05 pm
Visionary American educator Geoffrey Canada gives the Commencement address, joined by fellow honorands Sen. Susan Collins, art historian Wanda Corn ’62, and Lewiston-born actor Patrick Dempsey.
Bates in the News: April 14, 2017
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 12:59 pm
Newsmakers talk about rural education (it's not only about white Americans) and the Senate and the filibuster; plus two alumni innovators in the financial world.
Q&A: Claire Brown ’17 measures the effectiveness of Maine’s adult drug court
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 10:14 am
In her honors thesis, Brown compares adult drug court to more traditional forms of incarceration and criminal justice in Maine.
Picture story: MLK Day 2017
Friday, January 20, 2017 12:56 pm
Photographs of the many and varied people, places, and events capture the compelling Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance at Bates.
Hour by hour, MLK Day pictures, quotes, readings, ideas, and gestures
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 12:53 pm
Here's how MLK Day 2016 looked: what was said and read, and what was acted, sung, and pondered.
Advocacy for legal noncitizens takes Bates students to national conference
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 1:38 pm
Based on their advocacy for public assistance to legal noncitizens, two Bates College sophomores will participate in the Debating for Democracy National Conference March 19-20.
Aliza Luft ’06 examines ‘risky defections’ during the genocide in Rwanda
Friday, April 18, 2014 11:58 am
Why, Luft asks in her guest blog post, did some Hutu "evade participation and help Tutsi" instead of killing them?
In Central Europe, Phillips Fellow Baumann ’14 sought missing pieces of a family puzzle
Friday, January 31, 2014 12:45 pm
Rachel Baumann's interest in her grandparents gained new intensity when, supported by a Phillips Fellowship, she spent summer 2013 researching their story of courage, audacity and survival as Jews in Nazi-controlled Europe.
Harvard media report on President Spencer, ‘godmother’ of Crimson Summer Academy, speaking at anniversary event
Friday, November 8, 2013 9:55 am
The program is "all about aligning the students’ ambition with opportunities," Spencer said.
Strategies for climate change, youth homelessness at issue in Harward Center events
Thursday, November 7, 2013 11:32 am
A forum on youth homelessness in Maine and a talk by a leading climate change activist take place a day apart in presentations at Bates College.