Stories about "Annual events"
Picture story: The academic year kicks off

Friday, September 7, 2018 9:03 am

See all the photography of Orientation Week, from Opening Day to Convocation to the women's soccer season opener.

Convocation 2018 remarks: Student Government President Walter Washington ’19

Thursday, September 6, 2018 5:28 pm

Make your education go hand in hand with making change, the Bates student government president tells the Class of 2022.

Slideshow: Hour by hour on Opening Day for the Bates Class of 2022

Thursday, August 30, 2018 10:09 am

Dropping a child off at college, said a new Bates parent, is a unique feeling: "so happy and so sad at the same time — and so proud."

College search advice, practical and heartening, from Bates admission experts

Friday, June 15, 2018 10:43 am

From big-picture goal setting to the do's and don'ts of the college essay, three Bates experts offer advice for the college search.

Video: Memorial 5K at Reunion is about friendship, family, and Bates community

Thursday, June 14, 2018 5:53 pm

Running the Memorial 5K at Reunion is “part of the reason I love Bates so much,” says one alum.

Picture story: Everyone is a winner in the 2018 Alumni Parade

Thursday, June 14, 2018 5:26 pm

Experience the 2018 Alumni Parade, where everybody is a winner.

EDSO S24 - Community Organizing for Social JusticeThis course introduces students to the basics of community organizing. Class sessions and field trips focus on the practice of organizing: students learn the fundamental principles of the organizing cycle and develop basic organizing skills, including relationship building, public narrative, and leadership. Through readings and documentaries, students learn about organizing theories and key social movements, and they hone their emerging skills through workshops with local organizers. Students apply these skills and knowledge to an on-campus organizing project designed to further social or political change at Bates. Recommended background: EDUC 231.
Baccalaureate Address by Mara Tieken: ‘Learn to live with uncertainty’

Friday, June 1, 2018 8:54 am

Uncertainty — and the ability to face challenges and tough questions head-on — is a feature, not a bug, of a Bates education.

Bates at Night: Astronomy Extravaganza

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 12:48 pm

Students "spread the excitement" to local schoolchildren at the annual Astronomy Extravaganza.

Picture story: Puddle Jump 2018

Thursday, February 1, 2018 7:08 pm

One, two, three!...Pictures aplenty from the 2018 Puddle Jump, Bates' signature winter student tradition.

Slideshow: From age 9 to 86, they explain how Bates took MLK Day ‘to another level’

Friday, January 19, 2018 10:06 am

Hear from people age 9 to 89 who attended the college's Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance and learn why it is "tremendously important within our community."

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