A selection of Bates News stories that reflect the work, contributions, and efforts of Bates President Clayton Spencer from her appointment in 2011 to now.
Expanding the Bates faculty “is a matter of central importance to the strength and vitality of our academic program,” said Malcolm Hill, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty.
Leana Amáez, who joins Bates on Feb. 27, 2023, is a seasoned equity and inclusion leader and longtime advocate for underrepresented populations. “I am thrilled to welcome Leana to Bates to lead our work in equity and inclusion — work that is central to our mission and to the success and well-being of every member of our community,” said Bates President Clayton Spencer.
As the year ticks to a close, here’s a top-10 countdown of the 2022 BatesNews stories with the most views, plus the average time readers spent on each story.
Bates President Clayton Spencer announced today that she will conclude her tenure at the end of the next academic year, on June 30, 2023. “Clayton has been a transformative leader for Bates, giving new shape and meaning to the power of a liberal arts education for today’s world,” said John Gillespie ’80, chair of the Bates College Board of Trustees.
Meeting the goals of the Bates Sustainability Roadmap will “touch and enrich our lives here on campus,” said President Clayton Spencer, while also furthering the college’s stated mission of “to prepare leaders with a commitment to responsible stewardship of the wider world.”
What a way to end the semester: a spirited game of Alumni Gym hoops among professors, students, and staff — including Dean Reese and President Spencer.
Media outlets take notice of a new Gallup study on the value of purposeful work; and former Garcelon gridder Sam Francis ’17 now has a job crunching numbers for the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals.
The new study also suggests that Bates Purposeful Work offers ways that colleges and universities might better prepare students for the future of work.
Purposeful Work meets a major — though not always fulfilled — responsibility of a liberal arts college: helping students find jobs that feel meaningful.
Attracted by its innovative approach to helping students find work that delivers deep personal meaning and the promise of professional success, news media outlets are telling the story of the college’s Purposeful Work program.
The grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation “comes at a crucial moment for Bates,” said President Clayton Spencer.
“The Traquina name represents incredible dedication by a Bates family to our college and our rowing program,” President Clayton Spencer said.
Hill is an eminent evolutionary developmental geneticist with a national reputation for dismantling barriers preventing students from thriving in STEM fields.
A major feature on Purposeful Work, an alumna filmmaker disrupts the queer female narrative, and professors comment on dual enrollment and cell phones.
The grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute will fund the transformation of STEM culture at Bates to fully support all students in the sciences.
A major feature on the news site Quartz reports that Bates has cracked the nut in how best to prepare students for post-graduation happiness.
Spencer writes that Congress’ current efforts at tax reform represent a puzzling “assault on educational opportunity.”
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author talks about her approach to writing, being an English major at Bates, and how being a Mainer has given her the “opposite of a worldview.”
A senior administrator at Harvard University before coming to Bates, President Clayton Spencer was honored with a Harvard Medal this week.
The five-year Bates Campaign seeks to strengthen the college’s endowment by $160 million, more than half of the campaign’s $300 million goal.
Bates College has joined the American Talent Initiative on the strength of the college’s proven commitment to access, affordability, and post-graduation success.
The Bates rowing program had a housewarming on Oct. 29, formally dedicating its new boathouse on the Androscoggin River in Greene.
“I am deeply grateful to Elizabeth and Michael for their wonderfully generous gift,” said President Spencer at the dedication of Kalperis Hall and Chu Hall on Friday afternoon.
The new gifts include the largest single gift in Bates history, $10 million from Michael Bonney ’80, chair of the Board of Trustees, and his wife, Alison Grott Bonney ’80.
Text, photo, and video coverage of an evening that featured compelling Bates people, a great venue at the Whitney Museum, and spirited conversation about Bates in an age of disruption.
President Clayton Spencer has received an honorary degree from Bishop’s University in Quebec, an institution devoted to the “liberal education of undergraduates.”
Two intriguing new programs this spring will play to Short Term’s founding tradition of innovation.
The Campus Life Project will establish a dynamic center of Bates life on the southeast side of campus.
The money will be spent, over and above our annual operating budget, over five years to move forward on key college initiatives.
During Convocation 2013, President Clayton Spencer offered an address that drew connections between the education that the new students are beginning and the lives Bates hopes to prepare them for.
Bates formally installed Ava Clayton Spencer, described by her former boss as the “embodiment of Bates values,” as its eighth president before a gathering of 2,500 on Friday afternoon.
What’s political compromise got to do with a Bates education? As Convocation 2012 reveals, plenty.
Clayton Spencer, Bates’ eighth president, began her first week in office with a couple of different kinds of greetings.
Clayton Spencer’s rise as a U.S. higher education leader culminates in her debut as president-elect of Bates — and her avowed commitment to leading Bates toward a stronger marriage of excellence and opportunity.
The Bates College Board of Trustees has elected Clayton Spencer, to become the eighth president of Bates, effective July 1, 2012.