AESOP is, and was, a great jumping-off point

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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Thursday August 23, 2012 3:00 pm	AESOP is, and was, a great jumping-off point For Monica Rodriguez ’12, AESOP in 2008 shaped her understanding of Bates and herself.
Thursday September 8, 2011 2:26 pm	Slide show: moving in and settling in during Orientation Click on thumbnails, above, to view the slide show. Images from Bates Orientation for the Class of 2015 on Sept….
Wednesday September 7, 2011 5:45 pm	Video: AESOP students work at a Habitat for Humanity project in Lewiston Led by Erik Barth ’12 of Hanover, N.H., and Caroline Watson ’13 of McLean, Va., AESOP students work on a…
Wednesday September 7, 2011 5:42 pm	Video: AESOP trip scenes from Grafton Notch Video of a 2011 AESOP trip to Grafton Notch, produced by Taylor Blackburn ’15 of Atherton, Calif.
Tuesday September 6, 2011 3:04 pm	Facing wind and rain, AESOP leaders held fast and thought faster Bates’ student-run Annual Entering Student Outdoor Program expeditions are plenty stimulating all by themselves, but this year an uninvited guest called Tropical Storm Irene upped the ante on the excitement.
Tuesday September 6, 2011 1:44 pm	At Orientation, a get-out-the-vote effort Most of the registration tables on Saturday morning of Orientation focused on a student’s Bates identity, like ID photos and…
Tuesday September 6, 2011 11:09 am	Orientation is a way to make yourself at home The day started out wet, but the rain was giving way to a gentle warmth as Josh Quint ’14 moved into a ground-floor double in Parker Hall.
Tuesday September 6, 2011 10:40 am	For parents during Orientation, a school bus parable A highlight of the Parent Orientation was a story shared by Roland Davis ’92, director of the Office of Intercultural Education. In urging parents to turn their kids loose, Davis told of how he learned to give his young daughter some independence as she began kindergarten.
Tuesday September 6, 2011 10:25 am	New students find the appeal of green at Orientation “We have had steady business, and that’s great,” sustainability coordinator Julie Rosenbach said about the materials she offered at Orientation about “green” programs at Bates.
Friday September 2, 2011 11:22 am	Ready, set, welcome: Nine behind-the-scenes stories about the new Bates year After the first-year students and their trip leaders headed off on their preorientation AESOP trips on Monday, we did a…

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For Monica Rodriguez ’12, AESOP in 2008 shaped her understanding of Bates and herself.

Slide show: moving in and settling in during Orientation

Click on thumbnails, above, to view the slide show. Images from Bates Orientation for the Class of 2015 on Sept….

Video: AESOP students work at a Habitat for Humanity project in Lewiston

Led by Erik Barth ’12 of Hanover, N.H., and Caroline Watson ’13 of McLean, Va., AESOP students work on a…

Video: AESOP trip scenes from Grafton Notch

Video of a 2011 AESOP trip to Grafton Notch, produced by Taylor Blackburn ’15 of Atherton, Calif.

Facing wind and rain, AESOP leaders held fast and thought faster

Bates’ student-run Annual Entering Student Outdoor Program expeditions are plenty stimulating all by themselves, but this year an uninvited guest called Tropical Storm Irene upped the ante on the excitement.

Tuesday

September 6, 2011
1:44 pm

At Orientation, a get-out-the-vote effort

Most of the registration tables on Saturday morning of Orientation focused on a student’s Bates identity, like ID photos and…

Tuesday

September 6, 2011
11:09 am

Orientation is a way to make yourself at home

The day started out wet, but the rain was giving way to a gentle warmth as Josh Quint ’14 moved into a ground-floor double in Parker Hall.

Tuesday

September 6, 2011
10:40 am

For parents during Orientation, a school bus parable

A highlight of the Parent Orientation was a story shared by Roland Davis ’92, director of the Office of Intercultural Education. In urging parents to turn their kids loose, Davis told of how he learned to give his young daughter some independence as she began kindergarten.