Academic Year Calendars: 2021-2022, 2022-2023

Catalog: The comprehensive description of the Bates curriculum, including courses, majors, minors, and academic regulations.

Faculty Expertise: Search or browse through a complete list of the college’s faculty by name, field, or expertise. Our professors can provide expert opinion, comment, and analysis on a broad range of subjects.

A number of campus offices and centers are responsible for the academic program at Bates. The links of this page provide more information about those offices and centers.

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Dean of the Faculty: The Bates College Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Dean of the Faculty advances learning in the liberal arts tradition.

Library: The hub for scholarship on campus: books, journals, service for thesis writers, expert information professionals, and the IT Service Desk. Also workstations, study spaces, and comfortable chairs for reading.

Registrar: The Registrar’s Office maintains the permanent academic record of all Bates students.

Student Affairs: The Office of Student Affairs supports many aspects of campus life including co-curricular activities.

Academic Appeals Procedures:  Bates’ commitment to fairness and consistency supports an appeal process that affords students the opportunity to have certain significant decisions affecting their academic work and status reviewed.

Academic Standing Committee: The Academic Standing Committee is responsible for evaluating petitions for exceptions to academic standards, policies, and procedures.

Course Attendance Policies: Information about course attendance policy and absences.

The Student Advising Portal has detailed information for current Bates students.

The Peer Learning Commons (PLC): The PLC is students’ central hub for academic support at Bates. Located in the ground level of Ladd Library, the PLC houses the Student Academic Support Center (SASC) and the Student Writing and Language Center (SWLC). Each of these Centers are staffed by peer tutors and professional staff to assist students in engaging their academic work across the curriculum as well as in developing study skills ranging from time management and note-taking to inclusive study group practices.

Student Academic Support Center (SASC). SASC provides support for introductory and intermediate level courses in mathematics, statistics, programming, natural sciences, life sciences, and quantitative social sciences. SASC is located in the Peer Learning Commons on the Ground Floor of Ladd Library (you can enter either through the ground level Ladd door across from Chase Hall and Carnegie Science or you can enter the main level Ladd door, make 2 left turns and go down the stairs). SASC is open for drop-in support on the Ground Floor of Ladd Library at the following times: Mondays – Thursdays from 11am to 4 pm & 6 pm to 9 pm; Fridays from 11am to 3pm; Sundays from 6 pm to 9 pm. You can also make an appointment by using Penji. Instructions on how to do so are here.

Student Writing & Language Center (SWLC). SWLC, located in the Peer Learning Commons on the ground floor of Ladd Library, empowers Bates students in becoming more effective writers, language-users, communicators, thinkers, and learners by providing a supportive environment for idea generation, collaboration, drafting, writing, reading, revising, editing, studying, speaking, and presenting. SWLC tutors are Bates students trained to listen to and guide their peers in using writing and language to achieve students’ personal and academic goals. The SWLC serves all writers at any stage of the writing process. Our peer writing tutors can help students develop strategies for: understanding a writing assignment; coming up with ideas to write about; understanding feedback from professors; outlining and drafting; using your voice; integrating and citing sources; revising your drafts; editing and proofreading final drafts. You can also make an appointment by using Penji. Instructions on how to do so are here.

Accessible Education: Accessible Education is committed to ensuring full access to both academic and co-curricular programming college wide for students with disabilities.  It is located on the lower level of Ladd Library. It is open Monday through Friday from 8:00am to 4:30pm and is available at 207-786-6222 or accessibility@bates.edu.

Library and Research Support: The research librarians in Ladd Library can assist students in learning how to utilize all of the available resources to conduct research.

Pre-Health Professions Information and Pathways: Students interested in pursuing a health profession should be sure to review all of the resources at this site put together by the pre-health advisors at the Center for Purposeful Work. It is important that students considering a pre-health pathway take CHEM 107, which is only offered in the Fall semester.

Center for Global Education: The Center for Global Education is the hub of global learning and cross-cultural engagement for students, faculty and staff of Bates. The Center for Global Education provides advising, programming, and resources for international students and for all students seeking to study off-campus. For an overview of all of the off-campus study opportunities at Bates, please view this video. You can find more information on semester/year off-campus study and Short Term off-campus study on the relevant websites.

Dana Scholars — Highest honor bestowed on selected first-year students.

First Year Experience — The First-Year Experience at Bates is a collection of linked programs and resources intended to support students as they transition to college.

Graduate Fellowships — Prestigious fellowships for graduate study and funding for unique projects are available for ambitious Bates students and alums.

Harward Center for Community Partnerships: Service to others in schools, businesses, and hospitals, as well as social service, environmental, and governmental agencies.

Honors Program — An opportunity for students to do extensive independent study and research in their major fields.

Mount David Summit — Students present research service-learning and creative work in many venues.

Museum: Through temporary exhibitions, the permanent collection, programming and education programs the MoA is an integral part of the intellectual and cultural life of the College and region.

Off-campus Study — Find out why so many Bates students study abroad.

Senior Speaker: One of the great honors for students in the graduating class is to be nominated as the senior speaker at commencement.

STEM Scholars — STEM Scholars learn to think like scientists, explore what the life of a scientist is like through faculty and alumni guest lectures and co-curricular activities, gain experiences that will help them be competitive candidates for positions as summer researchers and peer mentors, and develop long-term career goals.