News » President for a Day http://www.bates.edu/news Tue, 21 May 2013 20:28:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Slide show features 2010 President for a Day http://www.bates.edu/news/2010/02/25/president-day-2010/ http://www.bates.edu/news/2010/02/25/president-day-2010/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:42:45 +0000 Phyllis Graber Jensen http://home.bates.edu/?p=21020
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Day Tripper

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President for a Day at Bates annually has a student (Margaret Koerber ’10 of New Orleans this year) tending to Elaine Tuttle Hansen’s to-do list while President Hansen experiences the student’s typical day.

“I think one of the most important capacities we aim to teach at a liberal arts college is how to see things from multiple perspectives, and it’s also one of the hardest things we ask people to do,” says Hansen. “So a primary reason for this little experiment in trading places with a student is to give myself an opportunity to see from a very different perspective what Bates looks like on any given day.”

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