Stories about "Education"
The Packet— In death, the chance to know a Bates life
Saturday, November 1, 2008 9:40 am
Three times a year, I receive a packet from the editor of this magazine, a packet that no one else receives. In it are the stories of 50 or 60 people, all part of the Bates community in some way: alumni, faculty, staff. But they are united by more than being part of this community.
Cornfield as Classroom
Saturday, November 1, 2008 9:20 am
Food-oriented community projects provide more than physical nourishment.
It's all about the paper trail for archives director Kat Stefko
Saturday, November 1, 2008 8:44 am
Asked to describe her job as an archivist, Katherine Stefko's stock reply is, "I'm paid to read other people's mail." The joke is revealing. Director of archives and special collections at Bates, Stefko oversees the delicate work of gathering documentary materials that reveal the details — sometimes very personal — of history.
Alan Schwartz '61 sees the law end of the credit crisis
Friday, October 10, 2008 10:55 am
An expert in bankruptcy and corporate governance, Yale law professor Alan Schwartz…
Place in the heart
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 2:59 pm
While outdoors, she looked within and found a new sense of place
Community Fabric
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 10:39 am
The Harward Center and a fledgling Lewiston museum weave a working partnership.
1980 — The Iran Hostage Crisis
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:08 am
Feb. 13, 1980, was Day 102 of the hostage crisis in Tehran, Iran. But for globetrotting freelance journalist William Worthy ’42, it was just another day in just another post-revolution country.
Work, Truly Our Own
Sunday, May 11, 2008 11:49 am
Among workshops that Bates held on Jan. 21 to honor Martin Luther King Jr., one stood out by virtue of its subject: Bates itself.
Reason and Rhyme
Sunday, May 11, 2008 11:22 am
Two Prizewinning alum poets praise Rober Farnsworth, recipient of the Kroepsch Aware for Teaching, for helping them navigate the writer's world.
Watson Fellowship to support Bates graduate's graffiti research
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 10:13 am
A Bates graduate from Chicago is one of 50 students across the country to receive a 2008 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, a $25,000 grant that supports a year of independent research abroad. Jordan Williams, who graduated from Bates in December 2007, will use the award to research the graffiti cultures in Germany, Brazil and South Africa.