"The funds gathered by the Capital Campaign — and, indeed, the thinking and planning that went into the decision to mount an extensive appeal at all — precipitated one of the most intense evaluations of the College's entire program that has ever taken place at Bates," wrote President T. Hedley Reynolds and trustee E. Robert Kinney '39, campaign chair, at the end of the campaign in 1974.

With an announced goal of $6.7 million, the campaign ended with $6.9 million raised. In some ways, the money raised helped Bates to validate its own major changes and decisions over the first years of the Reynolds presidency, proving to the College that it could support expansion and improvement.

"We have seen a very large increase in the...faculty (from 58 to 97 over...seven years), and a concomitant increase in course offerings and even in new majors," wrote Reynolds and Kinney. "The Short Term program...has evolved.... An outstanding new library has been added to the campus and a rejuvenated student center has enriched campus life.... The changes thus precipitated, in part by new vision, and in part by new funds, have affected the very essence of the College.... We have seen our strengths become both apparent to ourselves and recognized by others; we have had to admit, confront, and deal with some of our most pressing needs."