Samuel Huntington Public Service Award

  • The Samuel Huntington Public Service Award provides a $10,000 stipend for a graduating college senior to pursue one year of public service anywhere in the world. The award allows recipients to engage in a meaningful public service activity for one year before proceeding on to graduate school or a career.

    The deadline to apply for the Samuel Huntington Public Service Award is February 15, 2010.  Please click here for more information and to obtain an application.

At A Glance: Engaging Students with the Community

  • The Harward Center for Community Partnerships offers students the opportunity to engage with community partners through:

    Community-Based Learning: Academically connected community-based work that includes courses, research, thesis, and independent study;

    Fellowships/Community Work-Study: Paid employment that includes work with non-profit agencies;

    Volunteerism: Student-led community engagement activities that are not tied to a course and are unpaid. These are one-time, short-term or ongoing activities supported by the Student Volunteer Fellows.

Kudos

  • A plan by three Bates College students to offer Tanzanian street children a survival alternative to a pervasive sex-for-food trade has won a $10,000 award from the 100 Projects for Peace program.

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Faculty Profile

  • In April 2007, Lee Abrahamsen was one of three Maine college educators to receive the consortium's Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence (named for Bates President Emeritus Harward).

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National Recognition

  • The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching recently selected Bates College for its new Community Engagement Classification, created to recognize colleges and universities that have institutionalized community engagement in their endeavors.

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Rules for Usage

 

THE PRIVILEGE OF LIMITED PUBLIC ACCESS IS GRANTED SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS.  THIS IS NOT A RECREATIONAL AREA, AND THERE ARE NO PUBLIC FACILITIES, TOILETS, PICNIC TABLES, OR LIFEGUARDS. 
(Other nearby public beaches provide these amenities:  Head Beach at Small Point - 2 miles south on Route 216, Popham Beach State Park on Route 209, and Reid State Park in Georgetown.)

IF YOU VISIT, PLEASE ACCEPT THESE RESPONSIBILITIES:

ENTER ON FOOT ONLY.  The only vehicles allowed are those of researchers, residents, staff, or services.

ACCESS IS DURING DAYLIGHT HOURS ONLY.  When the parking lot is full, access is suspended.

NO DOGS (or other domestic pets) ARE ALLOWED IN ANY SEASON.

FIRES AND CAMPING ARE NOT ALLOWED.

PROTECT THE PIPING PLOVERS AND LEAST TERNS, which nest and raise young on the beach sand.  If nesting birds are disturbed, they may abandon their eggs or chicks.  Please stay on the road or hard beach surface, away from marked nesting areas, and away from any birds showing protective behavior.

PLEASE DO NOT GO PAST THE RED POLE ON THE BEACH.  The pole is at the dune edge, about a half-mile west (to the right) of the beach entrance.

PROTECT YEARS OF FRAGILE GROWTH.  Do not climb on the rocks and ledges, or go into the back beach or dunes.

RESPECT ONGOING RESEARCH.  Please don't disturb markers, plants, or animals.

DO NOT BRING: Beach umbrellas, cabanas, radios and similar appliances, balls, kites, or bicycles.

PLEASE CARRY OUT EVERYTHING THAT YOU CARRY IN!