Asking Bates to welcome change, President Hansen made Bates’ framework firmer

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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Saturday October 15, 2011 12:00 am	Asking Bates to welcome change, President Hansen made Bates’ framework firmer In her final Bates interview, outgoing Bates President Elaine Tuttle Hansen talks about the college meeting challenges by being “alive to change.”
Tuesday June 14, 2011 1:56 pm	Reunion 2011 With Reunion 2011 now in the books, here’s a tour of the weekend, in words, by Bates Magazine editor Jay…
Tuesday May 31, 2011 4:48 pm	Slide show features 2011 Commencement day photographs * View the slide show by clicking the thumbnails. Always uplifting, the 2011 Commencement ceremony had a conversational, convivial spirit,…
Sunday May 29, 2011 3:24 pm	Commencement report: The only failure is the failure to persist “You will fail — you should fail,” Evelynn Hammonds, dean of Harvard College, told the Bates College class of 2011 on May 29. “But if you stick with it, and let your peculiarities become assets, you will succeed.” Hammond, who is also a historian of science and professor of African American studies at Harvard, was one of three honorary degree recipients who spoke at the college’s 145th commencement. The others were Frank Glazer, a pianist of international renown and member of the Bates music faculty, and Robert Langer, an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a highly prolific inventor of healthcare technologies.
Sunday May 29, 2011 2:32 pm	Video: President Hansen offers Commencement 2011 welcome In President Elaine Tuttle Hansen’s Commencement welcome, she says that founders of Bates would easily recognize the graduates’ shared values…
Tuesday May 10, 2011 12:40 pm	Benjamin Mays '20 birthplace museum dedication focus of media coverage The Associated Press and other South Carolina media cover the April 26 dedication of a museum in Greenwood, S.C., that…
Friday April 29, 2011 8:41 am	Symposium speaker: In higher ed, 'fairly good' not good enough for diversity efforts Providing an energizing start to the fourth symposium convened by President Elaine Tuttle Hansen to address issues of campus diversity and inclusiveness, Alma Clayton-Pedersen said that it’s time for academe to stop tinkering around the edges and, once and for all, effect thoroughgoing institutional change in the interests of human equity.
Friday April 22, 2011 9:41 am	President Elaine Tuttle Hansen appointed executive director of the Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins The Johns Hopkins University announced on April 21 that Bates President Elaine Tuttle Hansen will become executive director of the…
Wednesday April 13, 2011 3:13 pm	President Hansen’s biographical background Elaine Tuttle Hansen became president of Bates College on July 1, 2002, the seventh president of the College since its…
Wednesday April 13, 2011 3:12 pm	Major Achievements During President Hansen’s Tenure Strengthening Student Diversity Hansen’s emphasis has been first on revitalizing a campus-wide conversation about the college’s commitment to diversity and…

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In her final Bates interview, outgoing Bates President Elaine Tuttle Hansen talks about the college meeting challenges by being “alive to change.”

Reunion 2011

With Reunion 2011 now in the books, here’s a tour of the weekend, in words, by Bates Magazine editor Jay…

Slide show features 2011 Commencement day photographs

* View the slide show by clicking the thumbnails. Always uplifting, the 2011 Commencement ceremony had a conversational, convivial spirit,…

Commencement report: The only failure is the failure to persist

“You will fail — you should fail,” Evelynn Hammonds, dean of Harvard College, told the Bates College class of 2011 on May 29. “But if you stick with it, and let your peculiarities become assets, you will succeed.”
Hammond, who is also a historian of science and professor of African American studies at Harvard, was one of three honorary degree recipients who spoke at the college’s 145th commencement. The others were Frank Glazer, a pianist of international renown and member of the Bates music faculty, and Robert Langer, an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a highly prolific inventor of healthcare technologies.

Sunday

May 29, 2011
2:32 pm

Video: President Hansen offers Commencement 2011 welcome

In President Elaine Tuttle Hansen’s Commencement welcome, she says that founders of Bates would easily recognize the graduates’ shared values…

Tuesday

May 10, 2011
12:40 pm

Benjamin Mays '20 birthplace museum dedication focus of media coverage

The Associated Press and other South Carolina media cover the April 26 dedication of a museum in Greenwood, S.C., that…

Friday

April 29, 2011
8:41 am

Symposium speaker: In higher ed, 'fairly good' not good enough for diversity efforts

Providing an energizing start to the fourth symposium convened by President Elaine Tuttle Hansen to address issues of campus diversity and inclusiveness, Alma Clayton-Pedersen said that it’s time for academe to stop tinkering around the edges and, once and for all, effect thoroughgoing institutional change in the interests of human equity.