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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Contact Us

 

David Scobey
Director
207-786-6443

Anna Bartel
Associate Director
207-786-6124

Peggy Rotundo
Director, Strategic and Policy Initiatives
207-786-6202

Brenda Pelletier
Events Coordinator
207-786-6400

Kristen Cloutier
Center Administrator
207-786-6202

Community-Based Learning Program

Holly Lasagna
Assistant Director
207-786-8319

Ellen Alcorn
Program Coordinator
207-786-8235

Community Volunteerism and Student Leadership Development Program

Marty Deschaines
Assistant Director
207-786-8273

Bates - Morse Mountain Conservation Area and Shortridge Coastal Center

Laura Sewall
Director
207-786-6078